Enlarge / Home windows 11 is mixing issues up with an improved quantity mixer, amongst different options. (credit score: Microsoft)

Microsoft launched a batch of great updates to Home windows 11 earlier this week, including tabs to the Notepad app, integrating the AI-powered “new Bing” into the taskbar’s search field, and previewing iPhone pairing, full with rudimentary iMessage assist. And Microsoft continues to check different options in public through its Home windows Insider Program, significantly within the extra experimental Dev channel. These builds are prone to type the idea for the working system’s large 23H2 replace later this yr.

This week’s Dev channel construct demonstrates a brand new and improved quantity mixer for Home windows and its apps straight from the Fast Settings menu on the bottom-right of the taskbar. The brand new mixer means that you can swap between output gadgets and management the amount of your output, and it exhibits per-app quantity and mute settings so you possibly can cool down or silence a person app. It is an enchancment over the present Fast Settings controls, which solely supply system-wide quantity changes and require a number of clicks to alter output gadgets.

This construct additionally expands a characteristic known as “Auto Coloration Administration” (ACM). ACM is hardware-accelerated, system-level shade administration that ensures colours in apps look the identical on completely different shows with completely different capabilities, and it is designed as a alternative for older Home windows shade administration applied sciences like Picture Coloration Administration (ICM) and the Home windows Coloration System (WCS).