A new AI era begins

Recall (in preview) is shifting from a preview broadly available for Copilot+ PCs on June 18, 2024, to a preview available first to members of Microsoft's Windows Insider Program starting in October. After we get feedback on Recall from the Windows Insider community, as we typically do, we plan to make Recall (in preview) available more widely to customers with Copilot+ PCs through a post-launch Windows Update. Learn more.

You can use Recall on Copilot+ PCs to find the content you have viewed on your device. Recall is currently in preview status; during this phase, we will collect customer feedback, develop more controls for enterprise customers to manage and govern Recall data, and improve the overall experience for users. On devices that are not powered by a Snapdragon® X Series processor, installation of a Windows update will be required to run Recall.

Recall is currently optimized for select languages, including English, Chinese (simplified), French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. This means Recall is able to retrieve snapshots from your PC’s timeline based on more sophisticated searches in these languages. During the preview phase, we will enhance optimization for additional languages. Recall can also retrieve snapshots from your PC’s timeline based on text-to-text searches in more than 160 languages.

Recall uses Copilot+ PC advanced processing capabilities to take images of your active screen every few seconds. The snapshots are encrypted and saved on your PC’s hard drive. You can use Recall to locate the content you have viewed on your PC using search or on a timeline bar that allows you to scroll through your snapshots. Once you find the snapshot that you were looking for in Recall, it will be analyzed and offer you options to interact with the content.

Recall will also enable you to open the snapshot in the original application in which it was created, and, as Recall is refined over time, it will open the actual source document, website, or email in a snapshot. This functionality will be improved during Recall’s preview phase.

Copilot+ PC storage size determines the number of snapshots that Recall can take and store. The minimum hard drive space needed to run Recall is 256 GB, and 50 GB of space must be available. The default allocation for Recall on a device with 256 GB will be 25 GB, which can store approximately 3 months of snapshots. You can increase the storage allocation for Recall in your PC Settings. Old snapshots will be deleted once you use your allocated storage, allowing new ones to be stored. Learn more about Recall.

Recall is a Windows AI feature that’s part of what makes Copilot+ PCs special, and Microsoft built privacy into Recall’s design from the ground up. The set-up experience of Copilot+ PCs will give you a choice to opt-in to saving snapshots using Recall. If you don’t proactively choose to turn it on, it will be off by default.

On Copilot+ PCs powered by a Snapdragon® X Series processor, you will see the Recall taskbar icon after you first activate your device. You can use that icon to open Recall’s settings and make choices about what snapshots Recall collects and stores on your device. You can limit which snapshots Recall collects; for example, you can select specific apps or websites visited in a supported browser to filter out of your snapshots. (Filtering out specific websites will only work in supported browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Google Chrome. In addition, you can pause snapshots on demand from the Recall icon in the system tray, clear some or all snapshots that have been stored, or delete all the snapshots from your device.

Recall also does not take snapshots of certain kinds of content, including InPrivate web browsing sessions in Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, or other Chromium-based browsers. It treats material protected with digital rights management (DRM) similarly; like other Windows apps such as the Snipping Tool, Recall will not store DRM content.

Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. That data may be in snapshots that are stored on your device, especially when sites do not follow standard internet protocols like cloaking password entry. Learn more.

Recall snapshots are kept on Copilot+ PCs themselves, on the local hard drive, and are protected using data encryption on your Windows 11 Home device and (if you have Windows 11 Pro or an enterprise Windows 11 SKU) BitLocker. Recall will come with additional layers of data protection including “just in time” decryption protected by Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-in Security (ESS). Learn more about Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-in Security. Recall snapshots will only be decrypted and accessible when the user authenticates. The search index database will also be encrypted. Recall snapshots are only linked to a specific user profile and Recall does not share them with other users, make them available for Microsoft to view, or use them for targeting advertisements. Snapshots are only available to the person whose profile was used to sign in to the device. If two people share a device with different profiles they will not be able to access each other’s snapshots. If they use the same profile to sign-in to the device then they will share a snapshots history. Otherwise, Recall snapshots are not available to other users or accessed by other applications or services. Learn more.

Live Captions allow you to translate audio and video content into English subtitles from 44 languages: Arabic, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Norwegian, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

With Cocreator, you can use text or image prompts to generate an interpretation of your vision. Cocreator works by translating your prompt into English, and prompts in U.S. English are likely to generate the most-accurate images. To access Cocreator, you will need to update the Microsoft Paint app to the latest version available in Microsoft Store. Cocreator requires login to a Microsoft account and internet connection, which help ensure the responsible use of AI. Learn more.

Auto super resolution (Auto SR) seamlessly integrates with Windows to automatically enhance the frame rates of existing games in real-time while also providing detailed visuals on screen, offering a balance that exceeds what your PC hardware can achieve on its own. At initial launch, this feature will be exclusive to Copilot+ PCs equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon® X Series processor and a curated set of games that can be found here.

Windows Studio Effects is the collective name of AI-powered video call and audio effects that are available on Copilot+ PCs and select Windows 11 devices with compatible NPUs. They include creative filters, portrait light, eye contact teleprompter, portrait blur and voice focus, and all involve modifying the outbound and inbound audio and video feed to enhance communication. Some Windows Studio Effects features, like voice focus and portrait blur, are unique to Copilot+ PCs. Timing of availability of certain features, like creative filters and portrait light, will vary by device and region.

These are new features in the Microsoft Photos app, available only on Copilot+ PCs, that let you reimagine your photos or create new imagery with the assistance of AI. Both features use proprietary and open-source AI models that are fine-tuned by Microsoft. The models come with your Copilot+ PC or can be automatically downloaded from Microsoft Store the first time you try these features. Restyle Image uses a Sketch-to-Image model, using the text prompt you entered or selected to create the style and apply it to your selected photo. Image Creator uses a Text-to-Image model to turn the text you’ve entered into a series of images based on this description. Currently, both Restyle Image and Image Creator are optimized for prompts in U.S. English. Both features require logging in to a Microsoft account and on some devices will require free Windows updates available starting late November 2024, and internet connection, which help ensure the responsible use of AI. Learn more.