Click to Do: do more with what’s on your screen

System requirements

A Copilot+ PC

• 40 TOPS NPU (neural processing unit)

• 16 GB RAM

• 8 logical processors

• 256 GB storage capacity

To display the Click to Do entry point from Snipping Tool, Snipping Tool version 11.2411.20.0, or later is required.

How to use Click to Do

Simply use Windows key  +  mouse click or Windows key + Q to enter Click to Do and take actions on what you clicked. You can also enter Click to Do through a right swipe on touch enabled PCs, or from the Snipping Tool menu if Snipping Tool is installed. If you ever need, you can also search for Click to Do from Windows Search to select and take actions on what you see. 

If you’re an IT administrator and need more information, see How to Manage Click to Do.

Click to Do does more with text

When you highlight text with Click to Do, you’re given the following options:  

• Copy: Copies the selected text to the clipboard

• Open with: Opens the selected text in a text editor like Notepad

• Search the web: Does a search for the selected text using Microsoft Edge and Bing

  Note: In China, due to regulatory requirements, local search engines might be used to perform a search.

When the highlighted text is an email address, you can either copy the text or Send email.

• Send email: Uses your default email app to open a new email to the selected email address

When the highlighted text is a website, you can either copy the text or Open website.

• Open website: Opens the selected website in your default browser

More intelligent text actions are available when your default language is set to English, at least 10 words are selected, and you’re signed in with either a Microsoft account or Microsoft Entra account. Intelligent text actions, powered by the Phi Silica small language model and the NPU, include:

• Summarize: Briefly outlines the main points of the selected text

• Create a bulleted list: Creates a bulleted list of key details from the selected text

• Rewrite (Casual): Revises the selected text using a casual tone

• Rewrite (Formal): Revises the selected text using a formal tone

• Rewrite (Refine): Revises the selected text, making grammatical improvements

Click to Do does more with images

If you select an image you’re given the following options:

• Copy: Copies the image to the clipboard

• Save as: Save the image to a specified location

• Share: Opens the share files option for the image file

• Open with: Open the image with an app such as Photos, Snipping Tool, or Paint

• Visual search with Bing: Does a visual search using Bing using your default web browser

  Notes: 

  • In China, access to the visual search feature with Bing may differ due to local regulations.

  • In EEA, visual search with Bing is not available

• Blur background with Photos: Blur the background with the Photos app

• Erase objects with Photos: Erase unwanted objects in the image with the Photos app

• Remove background with Paint: Remove the background of the image with Paint

  Note: In EEA, advanced image features like Blur, Remove, and Erase are currently not available.

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Click to Do does more with content

When you highlight either text or images with Click to Do, you’re given an option to Ask Copilot. Copilot opens with your content in the prompt box. Copilot then becomes the provider for completing the action as the selected content is handed off from Click to Do to Copilot.

Disable Click to Do

By default, Click to Do is enabled for Copilot+ PCs. While it can’t be removed, you can disable or enable it from the following location: ​​​​​​​

1. Open Settings, then go to > Privacy & security > Click to Do.

2. Set the Click to Do setting to:

   • On​​​​​​​:  Click to Do is enabled (default)

   • Off: Click to Do is disabled

When Click to Do is disabled, Windows key  +  mouse click,​​​​​​​ Windows key + Q, and right swipe on touch enabled PCs won’t open Click to Do. You might still see options to open Click to Do from other locations, such as Snipping Tool, but you’ll get a Couldn’t open Click to Do error if you select it. 

​​​​​​​Click to Do privacy considerations  

When you choose to send info from Click to Do to an app, like Paint, Click to Do will temporarily save this info in order to complete the transfer. Click to Do creates a temporary file in the following location: 

• C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Temp

Temporary files may also be saved when you choose send feedback. These temporary files aren’t saved long term. Click to Do doesn't retain any content from your screen after completing the requested action. However, the image file may be saved temporarily until the process is fully completed or a new action is initiated. Some diagnostic data is also gathered to keep Click to Do secure, up to date, and working.

Click to Do’s more intelligent text actions, including Summarize, Create a bulleted list, Rewrite (Casual), Rewrite (Formal), and Rewrite (Refine), are powered by a state-of-the-art small language model called Phi Silica. Phi Silica leverages the NPU and the language model runs locally on Copilot+ PCs. Phi Silica ships inbox with Windows on Copilot+ PCs. 

When a user clicks on the Click to Do text actions, the selected text and the chosen action are sent to Phi Silica as part of a prompt. Phi Silica runs on the device locally. Phi Silica intelligently rewrites the selected text as per the user's request and streams back the response from the model. Phi Silica provides responses quickly and efficiently, using very little power. For more information, see Phi Silica, small but mighty on-device SLM. 

In keeping with Microsoft’s commitment to data privacy and security, all saved images and processed data are kept on the device and processed locally. However, Click to Do allows you to choose if you want to get more information about your selected content online. When you choose one of the following Click to Do actions, the selected content is sent to the online provider from your local device to complete your request:

• Search the web: Sends the selected content Bing using Microsoft Edge

• Open website: Opens the selected website in your default browser

• Visual search with Bing: Sends the selected content to Bing visual search using your default browser​​​​​​​

For more information about privacy for Click to Do, see the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Microsoft’s commitment to responsible AI and Privacy 

Microsoft has been working to advance AI responsibly since 2017, when we first defined our AI principles and later operationalized our approach through our Responsible AI Standard. Privacy and security are core principles as we develop and deploy AI systems. We work to help our customers use our AI products responsibly, sharing our learnings, and building trust-based partnerships. For more about our responsible AI efforts, the principles that guide us, and the tools and capabilities we've created to assure that we develop AI technology responsibly, see​​​​​​​ Responsible AI.

To provide clarity on how each AI feature works, it’s important for you to understand its capabilities and limitations. You should understand the choices available to you in an AI feature and the responsibility associated with those choices.

Click to Do suggests actions that you can take, and you can choose the apps that will be the provider (if applicable) for those actions. Once you choose the action and provider for the action, the results from that action are the responsibility of the provider. For example, from Click to Do you can choose the action Remove background with Paint, which means you’ve chosen Paint as the provider for the action.  Once you have selected the action from the Click to Do context menu, it launches the Paint app and the selected image is processed by Paint. 

Click to Do uses optical character recognition (OCR) on your PC to detect text entities on screenshots. For more information about OCR, see Transparency note and use cases for OCR. 

Click to Do’s intelligent text actions use a small language model called Phi Silica. For more information on Phi Silica, see Get started with Phi Silica in the Windows App SDK. For information on the Responsible AI principles guiding Phi Silica deployment and the safety measures in place when using generative language models, please see Responsible Generative AI Development on Windows. 

Click to Do’s models have undergone fairness assessments, alongside comprehensive responsible AI, security and privacy assessments, to make sure the technology is effective and equitable while adhering to Microsoft’s Responsible AI best practices. 

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