Copilot in Windows 11 has received more built-in capabilities

For Insiders running Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26058, Microsoft is now rolling out extra features for the Copilot assistant. Now you can use it to manage more settings, including ease-of-access options and Power Automate Desktop.

Copilot now allows the user to enable Narrator and Live Captions. Besides, you can tell it to turn on battery saver, show you available networks, and even empty your recycle bin or clean up your storage. The complete list of new capabilities looks as follows.

New Copilot capabilities in Windows 11

New with this update:

• Ask for available wireless networks.
• Ask for system or device information.
• Ask for battery information.
• Ask to clean storage.
• Ask to empty recycle bin.
• Ask to toggle battery saver.
• Ask to show startup apps.
• Ask for your IP address.
• Ask for system, device, or storage information.

Try accessibility features:

• Ask to turn on narrator.
• Ask to open voice access.
• Ask to turn on magnifier.
• Ask to change text size.
• Ask to start live captions.
• Ask to turn on high-contrast.
• Ask to start voice typing.

Already live, now on the new runtime:

• Ask to toggle dark/light theme.
• Ask to toggle Bluetooth.
• Ask to toggle do not disturb.
• Ask to add a device.
• Ask to take a screenshot.
• Ask to cast your screen to another monitor.
• Ask to change your background image.
• Ask to set volume, change volume, or mute/unmute volume.
• Ask to launch an application.
• State that certain parts of your PC aren’t working: Audio, Windows Update, Camera, Bluetooth, Printer, Network, others.
• Ask to snap a window.
• Ask to start a focus session.

Power Automate integration in Copilot

Power Automate, a low-code automation solution within the Power Platform, has now launched its plugin in Copilot on Windows. This initial release of the plugin includes automation functions for Excel, PDF editing, and file organization.

To access the plugin, make sure you have downloaded or updated Power Automate Desktop to the most recent version from the Microsoft Store. Please note that the plugins can only be used when signed in to Copilot on Windows with a Microsoft account.

Once you have installed Power Automate and enabled the plugin in the plugins section of Copilot on Windows, you can request tasks such as composing an email to your team, creating an Excel file listing the top 5 highest mountains, renaming all PDF files in a folder, moving Word documents to a different folder, or splitting a PDF at the first page.

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These new Copilot options are part of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26058. It was recently released to the Dev and Canary Channels. However, note that you may not see them right away, as Microsoft does a gradual roll-out of the features.