Settings App Will Let You Change Default Browser in Windows 10 Mobile

Users have long complained near the lack of ability to alter default apps in Windows Phone. Microsoft has never allowed users to change their default apps on their phones. And things didn't change with the release of Windows 10 Mobile either. While the company does permit yous to change the default app, such as the browser, on your Windows 10 PC, information technology as well comes with some glitches.

A Windows 10 user recently commented that on "Settings app you couldn't alter default browser; and you had to call the former control panel to practise it." While the desktop version of the operating organisation has the age onetime and reliable Control Panel to get around several glitches that the Settings app presented, Windows x Mobile is still a work in progress.

Users spot the setting to change default browser in Windows ten Mobile Insider build 14946

A Reddit user has now spotted some signs of a change coming to Windows 10 Mobile. In the latest Windows ten Mobile Preview build 14946, released yesterday, they spotted a alter in Settings app to change the default browser from Microsoft Edge to something else.

When you printing theAlter my defaultin the Settings, it takes you back to the main control folio of the Settings app. Merely, it does give the offset signs of hope that we might merely be finally able to change the default browser on upcoming Windows 10 Insider builds.

This could very well be an unintentional problems that was accidentally "ported over from the PC build in some way," equally folks atWinBetahave pointed out. Simply, the optimist in us makes us believe that the power to change default browser in Windows 10 Mobile is indeed coming to Insiders, and this is just an accidental early leak of the feature.

Windows Insiders enrolled in the Fast ring get the Preview builds before everyone else, and before intensive internal testing. This often results in massive bugs and leaks like these. Let'south hope this modify in characteristic gets fully baked in the upcoming Windows x Mobile build.

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