New Windows 10 Mobile Preview Build 14327 lets you send and receive texts from a Windows PC
Microsoft released Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14322 less than a week ago, introducing numerous improvements and changes to Action Center, notifications, Cortana, Settings, emoji, Microsoft Edge, lockscreen, and more.
Today, the software giant rolls out another new build to the Fast ring, Build 14327, which, as well as fixing various known issues, also introduces a couple of noteworthy additions, including a Messaging Everywhere preview which lets users send and receive text messages from a Windows 10 PC.
To use this new feature, you need to be signed in with your Microsoft Account on both your phone and PC. Make sure "Send texts on all my Windows devices" is enabled on your phone, and then in the Settings app on your PC enable the ability to send messages through Windows Phone under 'Messaging Everywhere (Beta)'.
The other big change in this new build is the introduction of three more languages for Cortana -- Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil) and French (Canada).
The new build addresses the following issues:
- Fixed the issue causing Language and Speech packs to fail to download.
- Fixed the issue where in some cases your phone’s screen may not turn on and become unresponsive and Windows Hello stops working if you used the power button to lock/unlock your phone quickly.
- Fixed the issue where in some cases, users might get in a state where neither space or enter are working on the keyboard.
- Fixed the issue causing Facebook Messenger and other apps like WeChat, Transfer My Data, and UC Browser from failing to launch from Start or All apps.
- Fixed an issue where diverse emoji couldn’t be deleted from the text box in an interactive notification.
- Updated the autocorrection logic, so you can now abort an autocorrection by tapping on the bolded word.
- Updated the Glance screen so it will now reflect Ease of Access text scaling.
- Fixed an issue where tethering over Bluetooth wouldn’t work if Bluetooth had never been turned on before.
- Fixed an issue where you couldn’t set a sample image as a lock screen background.
With this being a Fast ring release there are some more known issues in the build to be aware of:
- Feedback Hub is not localized and the UI will be in English (U.S.) only even with language packs installed.
- Microsoft is investigating a crash with the Camera app when going into your camera roll.
- There is an issue in which you may see duplicate apps under All apps showing as pending despite being installed and usable on your phone. You may also see some apps stuck in the Store. To get out of this state, just start and pause a download in the Store and then choose to "resume all" downloads.
- You may see square boxes in certain apps when using some of the new emoji -- Microsoft is still getting support for the new emoji added throughout the systems, this will be resolved in a future build.
- There is a bug we’re investigating that prevents some apps such as Tweetium from launching.
- Microsoft is investigating issues which cause mobile data to stop working but show as connected.
- Glance on/off setting is not respected after updating to a new build. After updating, you can reset this setting to what you had before.