Apps Turn On or Off Click to Do in Recall in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Click to Do in Recall for your account in Windows 11.

Starting with Windows 11 build 26120.2415 (Dev) on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, you can try out the Recall (Preview) feature.

Starting with Windows 11 build 26120.2510 (Dev), Microsoft is expanding the preview of Recall to Windows Insiders on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs. This includes Click to Do in Recall as well.

Recall was introduced earlier this year, with the ability to enable you to quickly find and jump back into what you have seen before on your PC. You can use an explorable timeline to find the content you remember seeing before. You can also use semantic powered search and just describe how you remember something and Recall will retrieve the moment you saw it. Any photo, link, or message can be a fresh point to continue from.

To use Recall you need to opt in to saving snapshots, which are screenshots of your activity. Snapshots and the contextual information derived from them are saved and encrypted to your local hard drive. Recall does not share snapshots or associated data with Microsoft or third parties, nor is it shared between different Windows users on the same device. Windows will ask for your permission before saving snapshots. You are always in control, and you can delete snapshots, pause or turn them off at any time. Any future options for the user to share data will require fully informed explicit action by the user.

You're always in control of what's saved as a snapshot. You can disable saving snapshots, pause temporarily, filter apps and websites, and delete your snapshots at any time.

Click to Do (preview) is an AI-enhanced Windows experience designed to simplify your workflow. By making text and images selectable, Click to Do provides relevant action suggestions that integrate seamlessly into people’s workflows. For example, for an image, Click to Do might suggest actions like visual search with Bing, erasing objects, or removing the background. You can then choose which action you would like to take. Click to Do (preview) runs on top of your snapshots in Recall (preview). Click to Do helps you get things done faster by connecting you to actions for content, either images or text, that you see on screen. Click to Do analyzes what's in the snapshot and then you can choose the individual pieces of info you want to take action on. The analysis of your snapshot is always performed locally on your device. Content is only shared out of the app if you choose to complete an action. Click to Do is active automatically as you browse through your snapshots.

For snapshots that have already been saved, info from filtered apps and websites along with private browsing activity from supported browsers is removed. Click to Do can't access info that was removed by filters when it's analyzing saved snapshots.

When you choose to send info from Click to Do to an app, like Paint, Click to Do will temporarily save this info in order to complete the transfer. Click to Do creates a temporary file in the following location:

• C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Temp

Temporary files may also be saved when you choose send feedback. These temporary files aren’t saved long term. Click to Do doesn’t keep any content from your screen after completing the requested action, but some basic telemetry is gathered to keep Click to Do secure, up to date, and working.

In keeping with Microsoft’s commitment to data privacy and security, all saved images and processed data are kept on the device and processed locally. However, Click to Do allows you to choose if you want to get more information about your selected content online. When you choose one of the following Click to Do actions, the selected content is sent to the online provider from your local device to complete your request:

• Search the web: Sends the selected content to the default search engine of your default browser
• Open website: Opens the selected website in your default browser
• Visual search with Bing: Sends the selected content to Bing visual search using your default browser

Click to Do uses optical character recognition (OCR) on your PC to analyze snapshots and improve search.

You can choose to turn Click to Do off from the bottom of Recall. You’ll notice that when Click to Do is active, your cursor is blue and white. The cursor also changes shape depending on the type of info beneath it. What you can do with the info changes based on what kind of content Click to Do detects.

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Here's How:

1 Open Recall (Win+J).

2 Click/tap on the Show Click to Do (on - default) or Hide Click to Do (off) button at the bottom of Recall. (see screenshots below)

When you browse to another snapshot in Recall, Click to Do will automatically turn on again.

That's it,
Shawn Brink