Microsoft recently announced the release of Windows 10 Build 18214 for Insiders in the Skip Ahead ring , providing one new feature “Your Phone App” and HTTP/2 and CUBIC support in Microsoft Edge. Check this post for more information.
Microsoft recently announced the release of Windows 10 Build 18214 for Insiders in the Skip Ahead ring. Apart from the usual list of bug fixes and performance improvements, this build comes with one new feature “Your Phone App”, which is more convenient for phone users to upload their photos and files on their computer, then you may make backups with File History in Windows or using a backup software MiniTool Shadow Maker (Windows 10 Backup Not Working? Solutions Are Here!). Besides, HTTP/2 and CUBIC support in Microsoft Edge make your network faster and safer.
Your Phone App
Your Phone app is also available for Insiders who are in Skip Ahead running 19H1 builds. Android 7.0+ are also compatible with Your Phone app. With Your Phone app, you get instant access to your Android’s most recent photos on your PC, dragging and dropping photos from your phone to your PC, copying, editing or pasting the photo directly from your PC. For PCs tied to the China region, Your Phone app services will be enabled in the future.
For iPhone users, the Your Phone app helps you connect your phone to your PC, surfing the Internet on your phone and sending the web page to your computer instantly to pick up where you left off, and continue reading, watching, or operating on a larger screen. With a linked phone, continuing on your PC is one share away.
A Faster Safer Internet with HTTP/2 and CUBIC
The Internet is part of our daily lives in work and family, business and the cloud. Microsoft hopes to turn these goals into reality through features in Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10. And Microsoft is committed to making your Internet experience faster and safer.
Windows 10 Microsoft Edge clients will take advantage of connection coalescing for HTTP/2 as supported in Windows Server 2019. By guaranteeing HTTP/2 preferred cipher suites, Microsoft Edge browser’s security has been improved. Windows 10 performance has also been improved thanks to Cubic, the new default TCP congestion provider.
Here are some fixes and updates for Windows 10 Build 18214.
- Fixed the issue resulting in the Clock & Calendar flyout sometimes not appearing until you clicked Start or the Action Center.
- Fixed an unexpected sihost.exe error when entering Safe Mode.
- Fixed Timeline’s scrollbar not working with touch.
- Fixed an issue where when naming a tile folder in Start it would commit as soon as you pressed space.
- Fixed an issue where the enabled/disabled state of Fast Startup would be reset to default after upgrading. After upgrading off of this build your preferred state will persist.
- Fixed an issue where the Windows Security icon in the taskbar systray would become a little bit blurrier every time there was a resolution change.
- Fixed an issue where the USERNAME environment variable was returning SYSTEM when queried from an un-elevated Command Prompt in recent builds.
- Microsoft has been working on its scaling logic and you should find apps resize better now after monitor DPI changes.
- Updated the messaging in Snipping Tool to more closely align with the commitment Microsoft made here. Microsoft is also exploring renaming its updated snipping experience – bringing together the old and new. The app update with this change hasn’t realized yet.
Windows 10 build 18214 has made some improvements on security and performance, but they are some known issues as well.
Known Issues:
- After upgrading to this build, the taskbar flyouts will no longer have acrylic backgrounds.
- Using the Ease of Access Make Text bigger setting, user will find issues with the text clipping. This will be fixed in upcoming builds.
- Setting up Microsoft Edge as kiosk app and configure the start/new tab page URL from assigned access Settings crashes the Microsoft Edge. The fix for this issue will be made available soon.
- On Windows 10 in S Mode, launching Office in the Store may fail to launch with an error about a .dll not being designed to run on Windows.
- It has a known issue in Narrator’s automatic dialog reading where the title of the dialog is being spoken more than once.
- An increase in Start reliability and performance issues in this build should be fixed soon in upcoming builds.
Before installing the latest Windows 10 build 18214 on your PC (See: Will Upgrading to Windows 10 Delete My Files?), you may go through the improvements and the list of known issues as well.