Windows 11 test brings AI file search to the Copilot app

Microsoft is testing retired a Windows 11 update that lets you usage AI to hunt done your files and images straight from the Copilot app. This trial is presently rolling retired to Windows Insiders connected Copilot Plus PCs and allows you to usage much descriptive connection erstwhile conducting your search.

You tin currently use the Copilot app to hunt for a record based connected its name, erstwhile it was past opened, oregon record type. This update takes things a measurement further by allowing you to picture what you’re looking for, specified arsenic “find the record with the chickenhearted tostada recipe.” Microsoft launched AI-powered Windows search connected Copilot Plus PCs earlier this year.

Microsoft is experimenting with a caller Copilot location acquisition arsenic well, which surfaces your caller apps, files, and conversations. If you prime an app wrong the “get guided help” section, Copilot volition automatically commencement a Vision session, where it scans everything connected your screen and guides you done an app. You tin besides upload a caller photograph to Copilot by selecting it from the near broadside of the surface and past asking the AI adjunct for much accusation astir it.

These features are rolling retired crossed each Insider channels via the Microsoft Store.