In summary:
- PCWorld reports Microsoft is updating Windows 11’s File Explorer with rounded corners for the address bar and search box to match the operating system’s design language.
- This minor redesign creates visual consistency with other Windows 11 elements like the taskbar search box, enhancing the overall user interface experience.
- The changes were discovered in a preview build by Windows Insiders, though no official public release date has been announced yet.
Microsoft appears to be working on a minor redesign of certain parts of File Explorer in Windows 11. Windows Latest reports that the address bar and search box in File Explorer will soon have rounded corners.
With these small changes, the design of File Explorer will be more similar to that of the rest of the operating system, with the new rounded search box almost identical to the search box in the taskbar.
The redesign was discovered by Windows Insider phantomofearth in a preview version of the operating system.
The design appears to have been included in several recent preview versions of Windows 11, but disabled by default. It’s unclear when Microsoft will roll out the new look for File Explorer to the general public.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.