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Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update introduces tons of new features, here's the full changelog!

Published: Aug 02, 2016, 3:09 PM

Milen Y.

Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update introduces tons of new features, here's the full changelog!

The Windows 10 Anniversary Update is due today, and its mobile version is supposed to begin its incremental roll-out in the following weeks as well. Before you get your fingers on it however, you can take a look at the full changelog for Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update build 14393.x and know what to expect from it.

And what a list this is! The changes and new features are so many that going over all of them in detail would be impossible. Live tiles now update all at once on the start screen instead of one by one, Cortana can speak new languages, Microsoft Edge supports gestures, there are new Action Center panels, Continuum supports USB Ethernet, photo thumbnail previews have been optimized and a whole lot more.

Here is the complete list of everything new and changed in Windows 10 Anniversary Update for mobile, courtesy of the folks over at ChangeWindows:

Start and Action Center

Live tiles now update all at once on the startscreen instead of one-by-one if there are updates for their content
Live tiles now can update badges and content at the same time
Apps will now launch faster if there are incoming live tile
The app icon is no longer repeated in the Action Center, instead, it is shown only in the header
The All apps list now also follows the "Make Text Larger" option
The header for each app is now smaller to make more room for notifications
Notifications can now have hero images
Notifications in both banners and Action Center now follow the "Text Scaling" setting
You can now hold notifications to turn them off for the app or go to the notification settings
The size of notification icons has been decreased from 64x64 to 48x48
App names on Live tiles now follow the Ease of Access Text Scaling setting
The default wallpaper for a new device has been changed
When you dismiss multiple notifications at once, the background will no longer fade to black between them
If a Quick Action turns a certain functionality in your device on or off (Bluetooth, Flashlight, etc.) it will now show On/Off for a short period

Cortana and search

Cortana is now available in Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil) and French (Canada)
Cortana will now show a button on the top to search for music
Cortana can now provide turn-by-turn directions with the new Maps app
Cortana can now sync across devices
You'll now get a notification whenever your mobile device is running out of battery
Find my phone/Ring my phone is now available through Cortana
You can now share map directions between your devices
Cortana can now show new notifications in the Action Center
Cortana can now automatically fetch the required speech language for you
Cortana can now give reminder suggestions
You can now change Cortana's language
Cortana's Settings have been moved outside the Notebook
You can now create reminders with photos or shared info from apps
Improved share UI for reminders
Cortana can now search in your Office 365 account
You can now send a picture from your phone to your PC through Cortana
Notifications on your phone will now be synced to your PC with Cortana
Cortanas listening animation has been updated
Cortana should now listen more reliably after tapping the mic button
Cortana's home UI no longer shows your cards but hints and a button to show the cards

User Interface

The back-button on the lock screen has been replaced with a camera button
The lock screen now shows media controls directly on the UI
The Bing logo on the Bing lock screen has been updated, appears smaller and no longer has the text "Bing"
The data migration process now uses a larger font
The "Goodbye" message will now stay visible until the device has been shut down completely

Glance screen now follows the Ease of Access scaling settings

Microsoft Edge

Edge has been updated from version 25.10586 to 38.14393

You can now swipe to go back and forward
The X-button to close tabs is now larger
Word Flow now works in the Edge address bar
The InPrivate browsing icon is now placed next to the "New tab" button in the tab overview
You can now require a prompt to pop up before a download starts
Edge now shows a "Go forward" item in the ellipses menu
When an app opens a new tab, pressing back will now close it
When typing in a text box, you can now use the pase button above the keyboard
Download notificaions in Edge now include filenames, download status and site domain on separate lines

EdgeHTML has been updated from version 13.10586 to 14.14393

Default parameters
Async/await
Object.values and Object.entries
Opus audio format
Time element
Date element
Output element
Color input type
Canvas Path2D objects
Web Speech API
Improved accessibility features
Support for Beacon
Web Notification API
Beacon API
Fetch API
The User Agent String has been updated

The following flags have been added

Foundational work for Web Notifications has been implemented (but not functional)
You can now set a flag for "Compose scrollbar thumbs independently"
You can now set a flag for DirectX settings "Use Windows.UI.Composition"
A flag for WebRTC 1.0 is available but not functional and will be removed in a later version
You can now set a flag to enable VP9 support
ES6 Regex symbols
Web Payments
TCP Fast Open is disabled by default but can be enabled
A flag has been added to enable Standard Fullscreen API

Settings

New panels, settings and options

You can now choose which app's notifications are more important to you
You can now choose how many notifications an app can have in the Action Center
You can now manage on a per-app base if an app can run in the background or not, or if this has to be hanled by Windows
Windows Update now allows you to set the time you're most active in so that it can avoid updating at that point
You can now manage the order of Quick Actions in the Action Center for all slots
You can now change the charge threshold before Battery Saver is enabled
It is now possible to hide Quick Actions you don't use
The is now a toggle for the VPN Quick Action button
You can now override Active Hours with the Restart Options
The Windows Update notification after installing an update now takes you to the device's update history
Navigation Bar settings now have their own page
You can now opt to use 3G only
Dual-SIM devices now support Visual Voicemail
You can now manage your Insider settings from the Settings app
You can now set how long it takes before Windows Hello requires you to sign in again
Apps for websites has been added under System
Sharing a network with your contacts in Wi-Fi Sense is no longer possible
"Always show Glance screen when charging" is now the default behavior for Glance screen
The Mobile Hotstpot page now gives clearer errors when setting up a hotspot fails due to the lack of a SIM being connected
The refresh rate for Wi-Fi data usage is now faster
Active hours can now be set to a range of up to 12 hours instead of 10
As of build 14361, your DPI settings will be backed up in the cloud and restored after your device is refreshed
Kids Corner is no longer available

Visual updates and others

Adjust brightness automatically is now enabled by default
Every page in Settings now has its own icon
Glance has been moved from Extras to Personalization
Improved performance when opening Settings > Update & security > For developers
The background of the category overview and sub-category overview is now black instead of dark grey
A selected sub-category now has a Groove-like select state
The title of pages is now displayed larger
The icons under Update & Security have been updated to be more reflective of their meaning
Improved performance for loading the app list under Storage settings

System

Continuum now supports USB Ethernet
The Bluetooth AVRCP profile has been updated to version 1.5
Windows now has a one-handed Japanese kana keyboard
You can now run up to 16 apps in the background
Improved performance when retrieving updated GPS coordinates while you're driving
Improves app launch reliability
Improved logic for refreshing the Live tiles on the start screen
Improved reliability for keyboards with large dictionaries
The thumbnail logic has been altered to only create a small thumbnail after making a photo, and making the larger thumbnail when required to save storage
During the final preparations, Windows will only go through 8 to 10 migration steps
The Word Flow keyboard has an improved recognition of longer words
You can now abort an autocorrection by tapping on the bolded word
The call in-progress banner is now shown above notifications so you no longer need to dismiss that notification to end the call
The emoji set has been completely revamped
The default emoji’s are no longer grey, but yellow
The text prediction engine has bene improved to show candidates based on the current keyboard language, instead of the language that was used when the word was written
5-inch devices like the Lumia 640 and 830 can now also use the one-handed keyboard
Improve reliability of Bluetooth in cars
The back-up format is changed, causing back-ups to take less from your OneDrive space, however, back-ups are incompatible with older versions of Windows 10 Mobile
Improved battery performance for people that often turn the screen on and off again to look at the lock screen