{"id":576235,"date":"2026-08-21T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576235\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T21:24:10","slug":"microsoft-issues-three-new-windows-builds-to-windows-insider-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576235\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Issues Three New Windows Builds to Windows Insider Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-340650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/new-autoplay.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft Issues Three New Windows Builds to Windows Insider Program\" width=\"1034\" height=\"886\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have a PC enrolled in the Windows Insider Program\u2019s Beta, Experimental, or Experimental (26H1) channel, it\u2019s time to update.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve fixed the issue causing the Feature Flags list to show empty for Insiders in the Experimental channel,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows-insider\/2026\/08\/21\/announcing-new-builds-for-21-august-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft\u2019s Stephen Lines explains<\/a>. \u201cYou should now see Feature Flags reappear after installation of the latest Experimental build.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New builds include:<\/p>\n<p>Notable new features include:<\/p>\n<p>Modernize Autoplay experience. Autoplay is finally moving past its Windows 8 origins with a new dialog that was rebuilt with WinUI to be more visually consistent with Windows 11. It supports Light and Dark mode, and handles text scaling and display settings, and its notifications now work properly with the Notifications center.<br \/>\nOpen apps maximized. This new accessibility setting ensures that every app you open will open in a maximized state. It\u2019s in the Settings app &gt; Accessibility &gt; Visual effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you have a PC enrolled in the Windows Insider Program\u2019s Beta, Experimental, or Experimental (26H1) channel, it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145,283723],"class_list":["post-576235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-windows-insider-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}