- Windows 11’s Copilot -App now has a “Direct -Sitings Access” feature
- With queries on Settings in Windows 11, this provides direct links to the relevant settings in the Settings app
- It also gives some useful extra advice as well in a concise way
Microsofts gives the Copilot app in Windows 11 some fresh forces to allow AI to be more useful in adjusting settings in the operating system.
Thurrott.com emphasized that Microsoft revealed a new ‘direct settings Access’ feature to the Copilot app, which connects to Windows 11’s settings in a rather deep way.
In a blog post for the latest version of the Copilot app, Microsoft explains that if a person asks the app an inquiry about the settings for their PC, AI will now contain a direct link to the relevant option (s) in the Settings app.
Microsoft’s example shows a Windows 11 user who complains that their screen is too weak and then asks how to solve this.
In its answer, the Copilot app gives a link to the part of the settings app where the brightness of the display can be adjusted so that the user can go directly to this section, which is nicely convenient.
AI gives further advice on how to change the brightness – to move the slider – and yes, it’s a pretty basic clarification, but Copilot also delivers some smart streamlined nuggets of extra info (I’ll be back to expand it in a moment).
If you are a Windows Insider (tester), this new trick for the Copilot app is present in version 1,25095.161 of the software or later – take the update from the Microsoft store – but not everyone gets it yet. Microsoft says this is on a gradual rollout, so the feature can still take a while to arrive for the testers running the latest copilot app.
Analysis: A clear step toward a more useful copilot -App
I’m glad to see a really useful addition to the Copilot app here. It is useful to get a direct link to any relevant setting delivered in the app in a similar (sort) way to the AI Agent in the Settings with Windows 11, except that it is only for Copilot+ PCS and this ability works for everyone. Or it will do when the feature comes out of testing anyway (unless Microsoft scrapes the idea – but it doesn’t seem likely).
It is also worth noting that as well as the direct link touches the Copilot app some extra tips that seem both relevant and nicely beaten. In the event of this brightness request, which you can see on the above screen, AI advises to verify that Windows 11’s battery saver does not limit the screen on the screen if you are also on a laptop and checking Night Light settings too (which Copilot will also point you to).
The current version of the Copilot app on my Windows 11 -bearable computer gives a more wandering set advice when asked the same question of brightness, and this new approach is more brief in terms of the nuances by expanding on the given query. So, overall, this seems to be a clear step forward for the app.
I will have to see this in action – and how it responds to different questions, including some more unclear settings queries – to really judge it, but at first glance this looks like a winning move from Microsoft.
Maybe eventually we will look at a Copilot app that not only can advise on checking extra items such as power-saving or night light settings, but it will actually be able to check them themselves and report back and ask if the user also wants these options that change.
There are also major changes that come to interface to the Copilot app, in case you miss the recent development.
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