Microsoft recently revealed Recall, a new feature for laptops running Windows 11. With Recall's comprehensive activity log, you can easily locate and recall your previous computer activities, as it is designed to ensure you never lose track of whatever you do on your computer.

Recall records all of your computer activities onto a timeline that you may navigate over. Recall has you covered for websites you've visited, applications you've used, and live meetings you've attended. Use the "Recall" action to locate certain items as needed. This sophisticated search feature gives you the context you want by showing you a snapshot of your activity at any given time.

With the aid of this new function, which uses real-time voice transcription and translation from Live Captions, you can even search through live meetings and videos. It's similar to giving your machine supercharged memory.

Timeline was a comparable feature that Microsoft had in Windows 10, however it was dropped in 2021. Rewind is a program available for Mac as well that provides comparable features. On the other hand, Recall is seamlessly incorporated into Windows 11 itself.

One of the new "Copilot Plus PCs" with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips—which have the required neural processing unit (NPU)—is required in order to utilize Recall. Furthermore, your computer has to have 256 GB of disk space, of which 50 GB can be used for recall.

Recall will utilize 25 GB by default, which is sufficient to keep your activity for around three months. If more space is needed, you can raise this allotment. Older photos will be removed to create place for new ones.

According to Microsoft, every piece of data that Recall records stays on your device and is kept private. Recall's logging features allow you to prevent particular programs or URLs from being recorded as well as to pause, suspend, or remove recordings. Users should be careful about what they save since while the feature won't track private browsing sessions or protected material, it won't conceal crucial information like passwords or financial data either.