of AI-driven recall function Being called back Copilot+Still, it may be a while before the feature is available to most Windows users with modern ARM-based PCs. Microsoft said Wednesday that the feature will first be available to Windows Insider beta testers in October, with an eye toward a wider release. For those still wondering whether this will leave holes for hackers to gain access to their PCs, the company promises that users need not worry about the security of their devices.
Microsoft has Blog Post First on Wednesday Announced that the automatic screenshot recall feature will be opt-inThe Redmond, Washington tech giant Feature postponedMicrosoft said that Recall will be coming to Copilot+ PC for a group of Windows Insiders beta users, and this “preview” experience will be available sometime in October, but there’s no word yet on when it’ll be released more widely.
The recall was meant to be a featured feature of the new Copilot+ PC. Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chipsThe built-in program takes screenshots of your PC every few minutes and collects them for easy viewing. The program uses AI to identify words and images in the screenshots and helps you return to the webpage you were on or the program or document you had open at the time. Microsoft touts the feature as a sort of “time machine” that can help people with poor memory recall important sites or documents they were previously working on.
Skeptical Windows users expressed concern. From the beginning, there were signs of trouble. First, Recall automatically screenshots sensitive information such as passwords and financial information. While most browsers’ incognito modes limit screenshots, you have to manually configure sites you don’t want screenshotted during normal use. The feature comes pre-installed on all new Copilot+ PCs and was originally supposed to be on by default. Microsoft initially claimed that all user records were secure on the device, but a few weeks before the release, security researchers discovered that the OCR-processed plain text recorded by the AI was stored intact in the PC’s AppData folder. The researchers worried that if a malicious actor gained access to the PC, they could exfiltrate a huge amount of user data, which could be devastating.
Now, the question is whether we’ll see a broader release of Recall before the end of the year. On Wednesday, Microsoft said that “security remains our top priority.” Microsoft suggested using Windows Hello biometric sign-in to access Recall snapshots. Users can also turn the feature on or off during their first Windows sign-in. By default, Recall is turned off.
It’s unclear if Microsoft has made any other changes to the program, and we’ll know more when we get one. If there’s no recall, the Copilot+ PC is Microsoft Surface Pro The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x was powerful and relatively fast, but it didn’t deliver on its big AI-centric promises.