Windows 11 build 22616.1

Windows 11 build 22616 is the twenty-ninth Insider Preview build of Nickel, the 22H2 development semester of Windows as a service. It was released to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta Channels on 5 May 2022.

Shell
The unified hitboxes for Win32 system tray icons and the "show hidden icons" flyout, which initially announced in build 22563, have been reverted for maintenance. As a result, it brings back the drag-and-drop feature for pinning or unpinning tray icons.

General

 * Fixed an issue where performance and reliability of  could degrade over time, eventually resulting in a bugcheck in recent builds.
 * Fixed an underlying issue which could cause some text in Windows Sandbox to appear as black boxes in certain cases.
 * Fixed an issue leading to Windows Update notifications showing they were sent from "Windows.SystemToast.WindowsUpdate.MoNotification" instead of "Windows Update".

Shell

 * Fixed an issue causing the hidden icons flyout on the taskbar to disappear completely in some cases.
 * Fixed an issue that could cause Quick Settings to crash when projecting to certain wireless devices.
 * Addressed an issue where using the 3-finger on-screen touch gesture for minimizing could cause animations to stop working across the OS.
 * Fixed an issue impacting DWM reliability in recent builds.
 * Fixed an issue which was causing some apps to open blank if they were re-opened an upgrade or reboot.

Input
Fixed an issue which was leading to some apps crashing when pressing the half-width/full-width key while using the Japanese IME.

Widgets

 * Fixed an issue causing the Widgets board to open and then immediately close if users tried to open the widgets board using a gesture from the side of the screen.
 * Fixed an issue where users were unable to use the swipe functionality to reliably invoke Widgets.

Task Manager
Fixed an issue that was causing the process list to fluctuate between Apps & Background groups when clicking on Efficiency mode from the command bar.

Live captions

 * Certain apps in full screen (e.g., video players) may prevent live captions from being visible.
 * Certain apps positioned near the top of the screen and closed before live captions is run may re-launch behind the live captions window positioned at top.

Safe mode

 * Quick Settings and date/time clock on the taskbar may be missing due to the  service not running.
 * Clicking Bluetooth & devices and Personalization pages may crash the Settings app due to an overrun of a stack-based buffer.