Windows 11 build 23471

10.0.23471.1000.ni_prerelease.230526-1341

Build of Nickel
OS family	Windows 11 (NT 10.0)
Version number	10.0
Build number	23471
Build revision	1000
Architecture	AMD64, ARM64
Build lab	ni_prerelease
Compiled on	2023-05-26
Expiration date
Timebomb	2023-09-15 (+112 days)
SKUs
Home (N, Single Language, China) SE (N) Pro (N, Single Language, China) Pro Education (N) Pro for Workstations (N) Education (N) Enterprise (Evaluation, G, GN, N, N Evaluation) IoT Enterprise Team
About dialog

Windows 11 build 23471 is an Insider Preview build of Nickel, the 22H2 development semester of Windows as a service. It was released to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel on 1 June 2023.

New features and changes

File Explorer

• A new Add Phone Photos button has been added to the command bar under the Gallery page, and clicking it will open a URL with a QR code for accessing photos from a mobile device. This button is available to users who opted in to the OneDrive Insider Program and only functional with an appropriate OneDrive sync client.
• The ability to tear out and merge File Explorer tabs has been rolled out to a subset of users. It can be toggled on manually by enabling the 39661369 (FETTOM) velocity ID.
• The Gallery page, previously available in build 23435, has been rolled out to all users.
• When hovering the mouse over a picture in the Gallery page, a tooltip will be shown with information about the picture.
• The background for thumbnails in the new Details pane has been made a little lighter in light mode.

Shell

The redesigned network flyout on the lock screen, initially implemented in build 25193, has been backported to this build.

Settings

• A new toggle has been added under Network & Internet > Cellular to control whether to use cellular when Wi-Fi is available but poor.
• A new "Let search apps show results" toggle has been added under Privacy & security > Search permissions. This feature is disabled by default, but can be toggled on manually by enabling the 40979072 velocity ID.

Narrator

Four Narrator natural voices in Spanish, Alvaro (Spain), Elvira (Spain), Jorge (Mexico) and Dalia (Mexico), have been added.

Bugfixes

File Explorer

• Fixed an issue where pressing ⇧ Shift+F10 wasn't opening the context menu.
• Fixed an issue where access keys appeared inconsistently if no button was pressed.
• Fixed an issue that was causing explorer.exe to crash when opening the context menu in Windows App SDK-based File Explorer.
• Fixed an explorer.exe crash related to loading and interacting with the scrollbar in the Gallery page.
• Fixed an issue where the Gallery page may require clicking twice on the node in the navigation pane for initial load.
• Fixed an issue where minimizing and reopening File Explorer would lose the scroll position in the Gallery page.
• Fixed an issue where some file types (e.g., .HEIC) were not rendered correctly or performantly in the Gallery page.
• Fixed an issue that was causing Narrator to not announce the file name when opening the new Details pane.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the new Details pane to not show file name extensions even if the "Hide extensions for known file types" option under Folder Options is unchecked.

Taskbar

• Fixed an issue that was causing the taskbar to get cut off when switching to and from the tablet-optimized taskbar.
• Fixed the issue that was causing an empty tooltip to be displayed momentarily in certain cases when hovering the search box and the search highlight gleam icon.

Narrator

Fixed an issue where Narrator with Braille support wasn't reading numbered lists correctly in Microsoft 365 apps.

Bugs and quirks

General

• Additional filters beyond AV may be attached to the Dev Drive on a reboot.
• The performance of Dev Drive may vary between different devices.
• Backups of a device that was set up using a restore may not show up in subsequent restores.

File Explorer

• File Explorer may crash when dragging the scroll bar or attempting to close the window during an extended file-loading process.
• File Explorer may crash when clicking the ellipsis and chevron next to it in the address bar to open the flyout.
  • This issue will only apply if the changes to the File Explorer (introduced in build 23466) are enabled.
• Users may experience thumbnail loading performance for dehydrated cloud files and memory usage in large collections if the Gallery page is enabled.
• The access keys in the XAML context menu may appear inconsistently if no button is pressed. Pressing a button will cause them to reappear.
• Clicking on the Share command may bring up the Windows share sheet (non-OneDrive) when the file recommendations feature is enabled.

Taskbar

• Narrator may not be able to navigate down the left side panel of the Search flyout.
• Text scaling may not work in the search flyout.
• When dragging and dropping a window in Task View to a different desktop, the icon for that app may not appear on the taskbar.
• Navigating the search flyout on the taskbar with the keyboard arrow keys may not work as expected.

Shell

The copy button for copying two-factor authentication codes in notification toasts may not work.

Safe mode

• Quick Settings and date/time clock on the taskbar may be missing due to the Capability Access Manager Service service not running.
• Clicking Bluetooth & devices and Personalization pages may crash the Settings app due to an overrun of a stack-based buffer 0xc0000409.

Gallery

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  Boot screen

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  The Narrator natural voice (Spanish) selection dialog in the Settings app

External links

• Official announcement