Windows 11 build 23475

Windows 11 build 23475 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 7 June 2023, along with build 25387.1.
== New features and changes ==
=== File Explorer ===
* The Home page has been updated based on the WinUI framework, with redesigned Quick Access, Favorites, and Recent sections. The Recommended section for users on Azure Active Directory-joined devices (initially introduced in build 23403) has also been updated to be displayed as a carousel view. These changes are only available to a subset of users, but can be toggled on manually by enabling the 38664959, 41076133 and 42105254 velocity IDs.
* The visual changes to the File Explorer, initially introduced in build 23466, have been rolled to a subset of users. These changes can be toggled on manually by enabling the 40950262 and 42105254 velocity IDs.
=== Shell ===
The ability to detect if users are interacting with toasts or not and provide a suggestion to turn the toast banners off for these apps, initially implemented in build 23466, has been rolled out to all users.
=== Settings ===
The Lighting page under Personalization, previously implemented in build 25295 and build 23466, has been updated and renamed to Dynamic Lighting for controlling and configuring HID LampArray dynamic lighting devices.
=== Miscellaneous ===
* The support of inputing emoji characters based on the Unicode Emoji 15.0 standard via the emoji picker, initially implemented in build 25300, has been publicly rolled out.
* The support of restoring solid color desktop backgrounds from backup has been implemented.
=== Bugfixes ===
==== Shell ====
* Fixed an issue where the taskbar may not have shown the correct apps when using multiple desktops.
* Fixed an issue where when using a Japanese display language, sometimes apps with names written in kanji would all show at the bottom of the all apps list, rather than displayed alongside hiragana and katakana app names.
* Fixed an issue where certain notifications were leading to an explorer.exe crash.
* Fixed or an issue where Korean touch keyboard sometimes finalizes characters unexpectedly in the search flyout on the taskbar.
==== Backup ====
Fixed the issue where backups of a device that was set up using a restore won't show up in subsequent restores.
==== Accessibility ====
* Fixed the issue where Narrator customers were unable to navigate down the left side panel of the search flyout.
* Fixed issues that were causing voice access commands for moving settings sliders and selecting things on the taskbar to fail.
== 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.
=== File Explorer ===
* File Explorer may crash when dragging the scroll bar or attempting to close the window during an extended file-loading process.
* Users may experience thumbnail loading performance for dehydrated cloud files and memory usage in large collections if the Gallery page is enabled.
* Clicking on the Share command may bring up the Windows share sheet (non-OneDrive) when the file recommendations feature is enabled.
* The following issues will only apply if the redesigned Home page is enabled:
** The file type icons may be displayed in place of file thumbnails under the Recommended section.
** When navigating from another group to the Recommended section using a keyboard, focus may not appear on the group header or files appropriately.
** The file name extensions may be displayed even if the "Hide extensions for known file types" option under Folder Options is checked.
** Sync status icons for files backing up to a storage provider may not reliably displayed.
** Clicking on the "Please Sign-in" button (in case of an authentication error on the Home page) may not pop-up the authentication dialog.
* The following issues will only apply if the changes to the File Explorer (introduced in build 23466) are enabled:
** Users may notice missing craftmanship polish with the modernized address bar and search box.
** Users may experience lost keyboard focus and missing keyboard shortcuts.
** File Explorer may crash when clicking the ellipsis and chevron next to it in the address bar to open the flyout.
=== Taskbar ===
* Text scaling may not work in the search flyout.
* Navigating the search flyout on the taskbar with the keyboard arrow keys may not work as expected.
=== Dynamic lighting ===
* The device LEDs may not turn on automatically on first boot after installing this build and connecting the device.
* All-device settings changes may not propagate to per-device settings.
* Device icons may be missing from the device cards under the Dynamic Lighting page in the Settings app.
* Switching user accounts may turn off device LEDs.
=== 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 ==
File:Win11-boot-10x-anim.png|Boot screen
File:Windows11-10.0.23475.1000-FileExplorer.webp|File Explorer
File:Windows11-10.0.23475.1000-FileExplorerDark.webp|File Explorer (dark mode)
File:Windows11-10.0.23475.1000-Settings.webp|The Dynamic Lighting page in the Settings app
== External links ==
* Official announcement
Category:Nickel builds
Category:Windows 11 builds