Microsoft Releases February 2026 Patch Tuesday Updates

Microsoft has just released the February 2026 Patch Tuesday Updates for Windows 11, which include security fixes and a couple of new features that will be rolling out gradually to all users. That includes improvements to cross-device resume, the feature that lets Android users continue activities started on their Android phone on their PC.

Last month Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 (KB5074109) was quite buggy, and it forced Microsoft to release two emergency updates to address issues related to shutdown, remote connections, and cloud storage. As of this writing, Microsoft isn’t aware of any issue in today’s KB5077181 update for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2.

Here are the main changes included in this update, please note that some new features will be rolling out gradually:

Agent in Settings (Copilot+ PCs only): The Settings Agent now supports more languages, including German, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Italian, and Chinese (Simplified).

Settings improvements: The new Device card on the home page, which appears when you sign in with your Microsoft account, shows key specifications and usage details for your PC. To help ensure that only authorized Windows users can access system files, the app now also displays a User Account Control (UAC) prompt when you open Storage settings.

Cross-device Resume improvements: With this update, Vivo Android phone users can continue browsing from Vivo Browser on their PC, and those with an Android phone from HONOR, OPPO, Samsung, vivo, or Xiaomi can resume online files that were opened in the Copilot app on the phone and continue working on them on their PC.

Windows MIDI Services improvements: This update brings enhanced support for MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0, including WinMM and WinRT MIDI 1.0 support with built-in translation, shared MIDI ports across apps, custom port names, loopback and app-to-app MIDI, plus performance improvements and bug fixes.

Narrator improvements: Narrator now lets users choose which details are spoken and adjust their order to match how they navigate apps.

Smart App Control improvements. Smart App Control can now be toggled on and off normally. Previously, once it was off, it couldn’t (officially) be re-enabled.

Windows Hello New ESS improvements: Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-in Security (ESS) now supports external fingerprint sensors that can be used with desktop PCs, including Copilot+ PCs.

File Explorer improvements: This update includes some underlying changes that help improve the responsiveness of the app when navigating in network locations.

As Microsoft announced earlier today, the company is preparing to roll out new Secure Boot certificates to keep Windows PCs supporting the technology protected from boot-level attacks. Today’s update includes a “broad set of targeting data that identifies devices and their ability to receive new Secure Boot certificates.” Microsoft plans to roll out these new certificates to devices that need them after they show “sufficient successful update signals.”