The Amperage app brings Windows 11’s Recall to older PCs with ARM64 chips

The unofficial Amperage project from the famous Windows enthusiast and developer @thebookisclosed allows launching the Recall feature of Windows 11 on older -officially not supported - devices. The trick works starting in Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.712, and currently requires PCs with chips based on ARM64 architecture (Qualcomm Snapdragon, Microsoft SQ or Ampere). The project's source code is written in C# and published on GitHub.

Officially, Windows Recall is part of the Copilot+ PC feature set and is exclusive to Snapdragon-powered PCs, specifically Snapdragon X (Elite and Plus).

Previously, the author demoed Recall running on a fairly budget PC with a Snapdragon 7cx processor and 4 GB of RAM. Although the 7cx is an ARM chip, it does not have an onboard NPU, and having only 3.4GB of available memory. The hardware limitations make the task much more difficult when you consider that the official requirement is a minimum of 16GB of RAM. Finally, Recall was successfully launched on a seventh-generation Surface laptop with acceptable performance, even without the Internet.

Users with PCs running x86_64 chips have to wait until Microsoft publishes the Recall AI components for this platform. Others an emulation of ARM64 is required.

At the end of May, Microsoft announced hardware requirements for Recall. To use this feature, the PC must be equipped with Snapdragon X Elite or X Plus, provide 40 TOP performance, have 225 GB of memory and 16 GB of RAM. Recall does not include content filtering, so it may capture passwords or other sensitive data. To clear things up, Microsoft has published a Recall privacy page that explains all the issues.