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Here's how it works: Recall quietly takes regular screenshots (called snapshots) in the background, which are then analyzed through the power of Copilot AI. If you need to return to a document, photo, webpage, or any other item in your computing past, you can just describe it using natural language to bring up the relevant results. It works a lot like the Screenshots app that's available on the Pixel 9 phones.

Now, after being delayed and reworked, Recall is back. To test it right now, you need a Copilot+ Windows PC (for the necessary AI processing), and you need to be using the developer version of Windows 11 as part of the Windows Insider Program—it's free to switch, and you can do so here, but expect a few bugs and crashes along the way. I've been giving the feature a test run this week, and here's what I found.

Getting started with Windows Recall

Recall and snapshots.

The options you'll find here give you a reasonable level of control over how Recall works. You can set how long you want snapshots to be kept around for, and set the maximum amount of storage they're allowed to take up on your system. You can also manually delete snapshots based on a time range, or delete everything that's ever been saved.

The Recall settings in Windows. Credit: Lifehacker

Based on the time I've spent with Recall, it abides by these rules—though you do need a compatible browser for it to work properly (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera are supported, as well as other Chromium-based browsers). However, the AI seems pretty easy to trick when it comes to getting credit card numbers and passwords past the sensitive information filter. It's clearly a long way from infallible.

If you want to use Recall, you're probably better off pausing it when you're doing something you don't want captured, like working through an online checkout. You can pause Recall, and access its various other settings, by clicking on the Recall button in the notification area on the right of the taskbar—it looks like a couple of arrows squashed together with a star shape in the middle.

Specific websites and apps can be filtered out. Credit: Lifehacker

And there are a lot of snapshots—which there need to be, if Recall is going to be able to remember everything you've done on your computer. Microsoft doesn't say exactly how frequently screenshots are saved, but it presumably depends on how often you're switching between apps and making changes (there's no need to take identical pictures if you're just reading a website, for example).

Searching snapshots—and deciding whether to use Recall

The search capabilities of Recall are pretty impressive: You're able to search through text and visuals in the captured screenshots, so "lifehacker" would get you to snapshots of the Lifehacker website, and "sunset" would show the times when you had a photo or video of a sunset up on screen. The feature can cope with more complex searches too, so you can simply describe what you're looking for.

Analyzing snapshots on the timeline. Credit: Lifehacker

There's a feature here called Click to Do that scans snapshots for useful sections of the images, like graphics or text blocks: You can then click on any of these sections to do more with them (copy them to the clipboard, for example, or open them in another program). You can also launch apps and links right from the Recall interface.

It's by no means perfect, and there's still a "preview" label applied to Recall for the time being. There's no easy way to filter snapshots by app, for example, though you can do this with search results. The AI, as you might expect from AI, doesn't always correctly identify what's in your saved screenshots, though it's reliable enough to be useful.

The snapshot search function works well. Credit: Lifehacker

Personally, I'm going to leave it on—being able to remember everything you've done on your computer recently can be incredibly helpful at times, whether I'm researching stories or trying to find lost files. It doesn't seem to affect performance to any great degree, and even if the AI filtering isn't perfect and the occasional credit card number or password gets captured, it's difficult for anyone else to find that screenshot.

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