Windows 10 Mobile version 1703

Start

• Improved performance of HTTP images on Live Tiles

Cortana + search

• Cortana can now provide links to Microsoft Edge tabs and SharePoint documents to let you continue where you left on another device
• Cortana can now use notification grouping
• Cortana can now change the volume of your device
• You can now use Cortana to control music playback on more apps
• Cortana will now remember what music app was used last time and open it by default if no app is specified
• While listening to a radio station, you can ask Cortana to identify the song
• Cortana can now recognize music in Chinese
• Cortana now supports sign-in with Azure Active Directory identity to allow you to sign-in with your work or school account
• The microphone icon for Cortana has been updated
• Time-based reminders can now be recurring every month or year
• Improved reliability when using Cortana to receive incoming SMS messages over Bluetooth

Action center

• When you receive a missed call notification, it will now show options to call back, text or remind yourself to do something at a later moment
• You'll now get a notification welcoming you to Action center
• Stylized buttons in notifications are now aligned to the right to match other dialogs

User Interface

• The share icon in the Segoe MDL2 font has been updated

Microsoft Edge

Edge 40.15063

• Edge now supports the EPUB file format
• Icons of pages in the hub are now larger
• You can now zoom into webpages up to 500% regardless of the meta viewport setting of that webpage
• Apps for Websites will now work
• You can now right-click on PDF documents and choose to show the toolbar
• The PDF toolbar now shown an option to search in the document for words
• The PDF toolbar has an updated design, altering the look of the pagination field
• "Books" has been added as a new page in the Hub
• You can now enable sites to open in apps if that is supported
• You can now let Edge read books aloud to you
• If you click on an image, you can now use Ctrl + Mouse wheel to zoom in the e-book viewer
• Tabs will now show a book icon when reading a book
• If a book is being read aloud, switching the page will now make the reader jump to that page
• Edge will now remember your read aloud-settings for other books

EdgeHTML 15.15063

• Partial support for Webkit-Text-Stroke and outline-offset
• Partial support for WebRTC 1.0
• Improved performance on websites that change a large number of HTML Elements by improving the spellchecker efficiency
• H.264/AVC is now enabled by default for RTC
• Support for CSS Custom Properties and CSP 2.0 (in development)
• Improved support for WebRTC 1.0 and Service Workers (in development, behind flags)
• General performance improvements
• Changes to the network logic for Fetch algorithms in preparation for Service Worker Fetch interception (behind flags)
• First stage of render refactor to broaden support for independent composition
• Support for WebVR
• Support for Content Security Policy 2
• Preview support for Web Payments
• Support for the Brotli compressed data format (on by default) as an HTTP content-encoding method
• Updated the MS-prefixed FIDO 2.0 implementation to match the latest W3C Web Authentication specification
• Partial support for CSS Custom Properties (aka CSS Variables)
• Preliminary support for the IntersectionObserver API
• Async/await is on by default
• DOM performance improvements
• When using emoji’s, Edge will now render them in full color by default
• WebRTC 1.0 is now enabled by default
• Re-deferral support
• Chakra JIT is not out-of-process by default
• Support for SharedArrayBuffer behind the Experimental JavaScript Features flag
• Support for WebAssembly behind the Experimental JavaScript Features flag

about:flags

• "Service Workers" has been added
• "TCP Fast Open" has been added
• You can now set the composition engine
• "Enable New Editing Command Implementation" has been added
• "Enable New Serialization for Clipboard Implementation" has been added
• "Enable TSF 3D Implementation" has been added
• "Disable navigator.pointerEnabled API" has been added
• "Core platform support for Fetch abstraction" has been added
• "Preliminary implementation of the Payment Request DOM API" has been added
• "Support for the individual transform syntax for CSS transforms" has been added
• "Allow independent rendering of HTML5 Video elements" has been added
• "Enable individual transforms" has been added
• "Enable Input Interleaved Tasks" has been added
• "Allow background tabs to be put into a low power mode" has been added
• "Enable experimental networking features" has been added
• "Only execute timers once per second in nonvisible tabs to improve battery life" has been removed
• "Use legacy setInterval behavior" has been removed
• "Enable experimental H.264/AVC support" has been removed
• "Enable Media Downloads over Fetch" has been added
• "Enable CSS Downloads over Fetch" has been added
• "Enable Web Authentication APIs for accessing scoped credentials" has been added

Settings

System

• Storage Usage now shows icons for each type of file
• Offline maps storage location has been moved from "Offline maps" to "Storage"
• You can now manage notifications from the Settings app
• Alarms from 3rd party alarm apps can now break through Quiet Hours
• New rendering technology for content in UWP apps
• OAuth is now supported for Yahoo Mail accounts

Devices

• "Bluetooth" and "Connected Devices" has been merged into "Bluetooth & other devices"
• Bluetooth audio devices can now be disconnected and reconnected

Network & Internet

• Wi-Fi has been revamped, containing the same features as the PC version of the panel
• Improved reliability in the VPN Settings page
• You can now set a time for when the Wi-Fi connection on your device has to be turned on again in the new Wi-Fi page
• The default setting for Wi-Fi to be turned on again is now "Manually" instead of "1 hour"
• Improved UI and performance for the Data usage page
• It's now easier to differentiate between cellular data on each SIM in a multi SIM device
• "Wi-Fi Sense" and "Paid Wi-Fi Services" have been merged into the new "Wi-Fi Services" on the "Wi-Fi" page

Personalization

• Sound settings will now show ringtones, alarms and notifications automatically when downloaded from OneDrive or copied from File Explorer into the Ringtones folder
• You can now set Glance to be always on when the device is charging

Apps

• Apps has been added as a new category
• "Apps & features", "Default apps", "Offline maps" and "Apps for websites" have been moved from System to Apps
• You can now reset apps

Accounts

• You can now sync settings such as passwords, Wi-Fi profiles, Edge Favorites, Edge Reading List and app data with Azure Active Directory Identity
• Logging in with Windows Hello will now work much faster
• App corner has been removed

Time & language

• "Switch back to letters after I type an emoticon" is now disabled by default

Ease of Access

• You can now set audio to use mono

Update & security

• You can now suspend updates for 35 days
• Enterprises can now require SDs to be encrypted
• You can now require Windows to warn you more often before rebooting to update

General

• A sidebar is now shown offering help and links to related settings
• When scrolling in Settings, the header will now stay visible on top

System

• There is a new set of sounds to align with other editions of Windows
• The "You need to fix your MSA" notification logic has been improved so new ones will no longer follow each other in quick succession
• You can now uninstall a number of stock apps that previously did not support this
• When your typed word is about to be corrected, the word you originally typed will now appear as the second option
• You can now tap on words with a "-"-sign to remove them from your dictionary
• The on-screen French keyboards have an updated punctuation rule for two-part punctuation marks, except for French (Canada)
• This update is being rolled out with the Unified Update Platform
• Windows will now no longer require you to go through another build when upgrading from a certain build
• Behavior of the scrollbar has been improved for apps using the Creators Update SDK
• Updated Bluetooth API with GATT Server, Bluetooth LE Peripheral role and unpaired Bluetooth LE device connectivity support

Accessibility

• Improved XAML framework to make UWP apps work better in high contrast

Language

• A number of improvements have been made to translations
• Improved performance for English (India) text prediction
• Improved translations for French (France and Canada) and Chinese
• Latin-based languages now have an ellipsis child key when holding the period key on the touch keyboard

Apps

• View 3D Preview has been added as a default app

Windows Store

• You can now buy books through the Windows Store

Other features

• The time-out for your phones screen and Continuum-screen can now be set separately
• Narrator will now read the content of the page before the content on the bottom app bar if an app has one
• It is no longer possible to disable an alarm on the lock screen
• Alarms will now start at a higher volume level and ramp up from there
• Apps can now request users to pin their primary tile
• The rainbow flag icon has been added to the Transportation and weather sections in the keyboard

And further

• Improved performance of loading long lists of photos in File Explorer when a device is connected to a PC
• The rainbow flag emoji is now supported
• Improved battery life when apps like OneDrive are running on the background
• Improved reliability when handling malformed Gifs in XAML-based apps
• Improved video playback when using Continuum with Miracast
• Windows now identifies itself as version 1703

Windows 10 Mobile version 1709

Cortana + search

• Improved resume-from-suspend behavior to enable a Cortana skill to be authenticated before the user interacts with the skill

Settings

Network & Internet

• Improved reliability when connecting to VPNs
• VPN will now complete all pending actions before sleep and disconnects
• Support for automatic reconnection on resume
• Force tunneled improvements for UWP
• Improved proxy for UWP VPN profiles
• MMS can now be used when VPN is connected

Accounts

• Two factor authentication can now be set up

Time & language

• New UX for Speech and Keyboard downloads

Update & security

• "Phone Update" has been renamed "Windows Update"

Continuum

• Continuum now supports portrait mode

Other features

• Adds a new privacy settings page to the Out-Of-Box-Experience
• ApplicationManagement CSP and AppLocker CSP have been updated to accomondate an improved UX for AppLocker

And further

• Improved performance for apps such as Fitbit for pairing, connecting, syncing and notifications
• Improved Bluetooth connectivity with Garmin Wearables
• Improved reliability
• Support for Emoji 5.0 has been added
• Improved map-matching
• Windows will now report to be version 1709