Although Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, has recently come to the fore with its investments in OpenAI and integrating ChatGPT into almost every application it owns, the company continues its work on Windows 11. Announcing a new update for Windows 11 Insider Preview, the company brings an important innovation.
With the update with the version number 22624.1610, the user detection setting and API will be made available to Windows 11. In this way, computer users with the relevant sensor will have more options for privacy, and they will be able to determine which application can use this sensor or not.
What is user detection? What will this setting do for us?
Detection of user presence may bring features such as locking files and applications that require confidentiality when you are not at the computer, putting the computer into sleep mode, closing background applications. This brings benefits such as increased battery life, safety and performance.
The user presence detection setting will look like this:
If your computer supports user presence detection, you can access the relevant setting by going to Settings>Privacy and security>Asset detection.
Moreover, thanks to Microsoft’s new API, developers will be able to develop new features that will benefit from this sensor on computers. Of course, the inability of applications to access the sensor will continue to be under the control of users.
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