Windows 11 build 23590

10.0.23590.1000.ni_prerelease.231110-1455

Build of Nickel
OS family	Windows 11 (NT 10.0)
Version number	10.0
Build number	23590
Build revision	1000
Architecture	AMD64, ARM64
Build lab	ni_prerelease
Compiled on	2023-11-10
Expiration date
Timebomb	2024-09-15 (+310 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
About dialog

Windows 11 build 23590 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 15 November 2023.

New features and changes

Shell

• The Share flyout will only show apps under "Share using" that are tied to the account users are signed into Windows with.
• Microsoft Teams (Work or School) contacts will show in the Share flyout if users signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID.

Settings

The Phone Link subpage under the Bluetooth & devices has been renamed to Mobile devices along with a new "Allow this PC to access your mobile devices" toggle switch, where clicking on it will open a placeholder dialog. These changes are disabled by default, but can be activated by enabling the 46619780 velocity staging key.

Narrator

• The ability to navigate forward or backwards between images in Scan mode by pressing G or ⇧ Shift+G has been added.
• The recognition of text in images (including handwriting) and the overall image descriptions have been improved.
• Narrator will announce the presence of a draft comment, a resolved comment, a bookmark, or the availability of accessibility suggestions when reading text in the document in Microsoft Word.

Miscellaneous

• Steps Recorder (PSR.exe) is deprecated and will display a new banner notification to guide users towards alternative options when upgrading to this build.
• Turning on nearby sharing while Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are turned off will automatically turn Wi-Fi and Bluetooth back on and vice versa.

Bugfixes

File Explorer

• Fixed an issue that was causing File Explorer to crash on launch when using a non-default regional sorting option.
• Fixed an issue that was causing explorer.exe to crash sometimes when entering paths into the address bar.

Shell

• Fixed an issue that was causing explorer.exe to crash sometimes when opening the context menu on the desktop.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the Share flyout to crash.

Accessibility

• Fixed an issue where Narrator was not correctly announcing the selected item in combo boxes when users try to change the combo box value using Ctrl+↑ or Ctrl+↓.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator was announcing old dialog names even after users navigate to new dialog on few web pages.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator was not reading Role of a control in tables on the web while using table navigation commands Ctrl+Alt+Arrow keys.
• Addressed an issue where Narrator was not announcing the selected state of menu items in few applications such as device manager.
• Fixed an issue where Narrator was announcing both the unselected value and the newly selected value in elements such as date fields or any elements that are formatted as tables.
• Fixed an issue in Magnifier settings page where the text blow "voice speed" slider was not following the color contrast guidelines.

Settings

Fixed an issue where the Experimental Features section under Accessibility > Narrator didn't have text.

Bugs and quirks

Copilot

When first launching or after refreshing Copilot while using Voice access, users may need to use "Show grid" commands to click in the "Ask me anything" box for the first time.

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 Mobile devices page in the Settings app

External links

• Official announcement