Windows 11 is set to be enhanced with AI technology in the coming years, and one area of the interface is due for an AI facelift very soon, perhaps, if a new report is in the money.
It would be about snapshot layouts and the overall snapshot support experience in Windows 11, according to Zac Bowden of Windows Central. (opens in a new tab) – a prolific Microsoft leaker – believes.
According to anonymous sources, an intelligent snapshot experience is going to be introduced that will allow, for example, to remember groups of instant applications, so that the most used groups can be recovered with a single click. Brilliant.
Also, it seems that Microsoft is toying with the idea of including snapshot suggestions in the snapshot dropdown menu: suggested apps placed in different snapshot configurations, with built-in optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
OCR will make it easier for users to find the apps they need in the suggestions view. You can find an app you want to snap by searching for a word (or image) that you remember seeing, for example, in an app or web page (even if that word isn’t in the page title).
Another feature being tested internally is the idea of dynamically switching between apps to give more screen space to the one currently in use.
Say you have two apps running, one taking up 60% of the screen and the other taking up 40%, and you switch to the second – Windows 11 will give it 60% of the screen, smartly switching apps on depending on what you are using.
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All of these features would greatly enhance the usefulness and ease of use of snapshot designs. Interestingly, the most recent preview build of Windows 11 includes a change to display the active app icon in the snapshot dropdown, and a tweak to ensure the dropdown appears faster when you hover over the Restore button. .
It looks like Microsoft has big plans to give snap layouts more prominence in multitasking within Windows, and as we noted in our previous article, we’ve already seen a reference to snap hints (as mentioned above) in the new preview. of Windows 11 (hidden in the background, yes).
This could suggest that the gears are already turning regarding the addition of the aforementioned AI improvements to Settings in Windows 11, so we could see things happening in preview builds sooner rather than later.
