Microsoft will allow users to uninstall the controversial ‘Recall’ feature, which takes screenshots of Windows computers to create a history that users can consult, a possibility that it is introducing with a cumulative update.
Microsoft will introduce the ‘Recall’ feature in October in the Insider program as a preview, after canceling its arrival, also as a preview, to users of the new Copilot+ computers -available since June 18-.
The reason for this is the concern it has generated about the privacy of users’ information. ‘Recall’ will use artificial intelligence to take screenshots of the computer and thereby create a kind of ‘photographic memory’ so that the user can later scroll through a timeline to find the content they have searched for in any application, document or website, and retrieve it.
Microsoft has already assured that the database would be stored locally on the computer, and even updated Recall to be disabled by default and require a Windows Hello login.
This is joined by the possibility of uninstalling Recall, since Microsoft will introduce it as a Windows feature, as discovered by the specialized portal Deskmodder in the cumulative update KB5041865 for Windows 11 (24H2), currently available in preview.
Until now, Microsoft had added the possibility of blocking ‘Recall’ or deactivating this function in the Settings section. But now it also has the option of uninstalling it.