Windows 11 Insider build 22533 brings redesigned flyout menus for volume and brigthness

Microsoft has just released the Windows 11 Insider build 22533 for Dev channel testers, and there are some interesting design changes to look at today. Indeed, this build introduces redesigned flyout menus for volume and brightness, which now use the same design language as the rest of Windows 11.

Yes, the volume indicator from the Windows 8 era is finally going away, but Microsoft has also updated the flyout design for camera privacy, camera on/off and airplane mode in this build. The new flyouts will also respect your light/dark theme choice, and you can see the white version of the redesigned volume indicator below.

The other notable changes in this build include the ability to uninstall the clock app, and Microsoft has also started rolling out an update for the Your Phone app that brings a new in-progress call window with updated icons, fonts, and other UI changes.

You can find the full list of changes, bug fixes, and known issues in the Windows 11 build 22533 below:

Changes and Improvements

• We have updated the flyout design for the hardware indicators for brightness, volume, camera privacy, camera on/off and airplane mode, to align with Windows 11 design principles. These new flyouts will appear when you press the volume or brightness keys on your laptop and will honor light/dark mode to give you a more coherent Windows experience. Brightness and volume indicators continue to be interactive with the update.
• You can now search for voice access from the taskbar and pin voice access to your taskbar or Start like other apps as well as turn it on/ off.
• We’re expanding the rollout of extending the 13 touch keyboard themes to IMEs, the emoji panel, and voice typing (first introduced with Build 22504) to all Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.
• When you press WIN + X or right click the Start icon it will now say “Installed apps” in the menu instead of “Apps & Features”.
• It is now possible to uninstall the Clock app if you want.

Fixes

[General]

• Fixed an issue where Insiders may have seen error 0x8007012a during a driver or firmware update.
• Addressed an issue causing Insiders to be unable to sign-in to certain apps sometimes, such as Feedback Hub.
• Fixed the text in the exploit protection description in the Windows Security app so it just refers to Windows and not Windows 10.
• Fixed an issue resulting in not being able to import photos from certain cameras and mobile phones into the Photos app (it would just loop forever saying 0 items found so far).
• Launching Windows Sandbox, closing it, and then launch it again, should no longer lead to having two Windows Sandbox icons in the Taskbar (one of which is non-functional).

[Taskbar]

• The Wi-Fi icon should appear more reliably in the Taskbar now.
• If you have multiple monitors connected to your PC and right-click on the date and time on the taskbar on your primary monitor, explorer.exe will no longer crash.
• Holding CTRL and hovering your mouse over the Task View icon in the taskbar should no longer make explorer.exe crash.

[Settings]

• Mitigated an underlying issue related to the use of mica in Settings which was impacting overall reliability of the Settings app in recent flights.
• Fixed an issue impacting some Insiders which was resulting in Settings crashing when trying to access the Installed Apps, Startup Apps, and Default Apps pages.
• Mitigated an issue that was making the Wheel page in Settings crash when adding an action for an app.
• You should no longer hear a crackle if playing audio and repeatedly clicking the volume slider in Quick Settings to change the volume.

[Windowing]

• If you hover your mouse over a truncated window title in ALT + Tab or Task View a tooltip showing the full window name will now appear.

[Input]

• Improved how the text color and buttons look with theming applied on candidate window, emoji panel and clipboard (before this, some buttons/text was hard to see with certain custom background colors).
• The voice typing launcher should no longer unexpectedly reappear after clicking the microphone icon to invoke voice typing.
• For Insiders with the updated input switcher experience, accessibility tools like Magnifier and Narrator should work better with it now.

NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11 that became generally available on October 5th, 2021.

Known issues

[Start]

• In some cases, you might be unable to enter text when using Search from Start or the taskbar. If you experience the issue, press WIN + R on the keyboard to launch the Run dialog box, then close it.

[Taskbar]

• The taskbar will sometimes flicker when switching input methods.

[Search]

• After clicking the Search icon on the Taskbar, the Search panel may not open. If this occurs, restart the “Windows Explorer” process, and open the search panel again.

[Settings]

• When viewing the list of available Wi-Fi networks, the signal strength indicators do not reflect the correct signal strength.
• Settings may crash when going to System > Display > HDR. If you need to enable or disable HDR on an HDR-capable PC, you can do so using the WIN + ALT + B keyboard shortcut.
• There is a blank entry under Bluetooth & Devices.

[Widgets]

• Changing the taskbar alignment can cause the Widgets button to disappear from taskbar.
• When having multiple monitors, Widgets content on taskbar may get out of sync between monitors.
• With the taskbar left-aligned, information such as temperature is not shown. This will be fixed in a future update.

If you want to clean install today’s Windows 11 build 22533, Microsoft released ISOs today which can be downloaded on this page. If you install this build via Windows Update, though, you may no longer see the new entry point for Widgets with weather on the taskbar that was introduced in the Build 22518. That’s because the Windows Insider team has resetted the rollout of this feature with today’s build 22533, but it should become available for the majority of Insiders in the Dev Channel really soon.