Microsoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug

While the latest update to Windows 11 makes it look similar the upcoming Recall diagnostic tin beryllium easy removed by users, Microsoft tells america it’s conscionable a bug and a hole is coming. Deskmodder spotted the alteration past week successful the latest 24H2 mentation of Windows 11, with KB5041865 seemingly delivering the quality to uninstall Recall from the Windows Features section.

“We are alert of an contented wherever Recall is incorrectly listed arsenic an enactment nether the ‘Turn Windows features connected oregon off’ dialog successful Control Panel,” says Windows elder merchandise manager Brandon LeBlanc successful a connection to The Verge. “This volition beryllium fixed successful an upcoming update.”

The arguable Recall AI feature, which creates screenshots of mostly everything you spot oregon bash connected a computer, was primitively expected to debut with Copilot Plus PCs successful June. Microsoft was forced to hold the feature aft information researchers raised concerns. Microsoft says it remains connected way to preview Recall with Windows Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs successful October, aft the institution has had much clip to marque large changes to Recall.

Security researchers initially recovered that the Recall database that stores the snapshots of your machine each fewer seconds wasn’t encrypted, and malware could person perchance accessed the Recall feature. Microsoft is present making the AI-powered diagnostic an opt-in acquisition alternatively of connected by default, encrypting the database, and authenticating done Windows Hello.

We did inquire Microsoft whether it volition let Windows users to afloat uninstall Recall, arsenic this quality successful the Windows features database suggests, but the institution lone confirmed this was conscionable “incorrectly listed” for now. It’s imaginable that Microsoft whitethorn request to adhd a Recall uninstall enactment to EU copies of Windows 11 to comply with the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act. Microsoft has already had to add an uninstall enactment for Edge successful European Economic Area (EEA) countries, alongside the quality to region the Bing-powered web hunt successful the Start menu.