Why was the tablet-optimised taskbar removed in 22623.1325?

Hello,

You could see if option three may be able to enable the tablet-optimized taskbar if the other options are not available.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-on-or-off-tablet-optimized-taskbar-in-windows-11.5133/

I have already tried all the options including Option Three. None of them bring back a tablet optimised taskbar. All the Lenovo Yoga does when turned into a tablet is to widen the spacing of the icons on the taskbar, so it certainly still recognises when the keyboard is being disabled. But with Option Three applied even that stops working.

The tablet-optimized taskbar has been working perfectly well for months, & suddenly it's been removed without warning. The blog post about the update doesn't say anything. Just something about how there was a fix for an issue causing the taskbar to be cut off after resolution changes.

Does anyone know why a perfectly useful feature was removed?

I have two 2-in-1 convertibles, one is a Lenovo Yoga, the other a Dell Latitude 3190. The Lenovo has been running the Insider Beta builds, the Dell the Release build. Up until Insider build 22623.1255 The Lenovo had the Tablet Optimised Taskbar and the 'Optimise taskbar for touch interactions when used as a tablet' setting in 'Taskbar behaviours'. With the latest Beta builds both have disappeared.

This coincided with the Tablet optimised taskbar being made available in the public Release build 22621.1413. My Dell now has it, but the Lenovo doesn't, whether I use the Insider Beta Build or try installing the latest public build.

It seems that it is only a few models of tablet which have lost the ability to use the tablet optimised taskbar, but I'm at a loss to say what it is about those particular tablets that has caused it to disappear.

Does anyone know why a perfectly useful feature was removed?

MS mentioned it in a blog but I can find it, sorry.

The feature should still work, IIRC I think they said that now Windows automatically detects a capable tablet mode device thus the reason they removed it from settings but I could be wrong.

While I appreciate the reply, this is not the problem I am having. For a start, there was a way of turning it off. "Optimise taskbar for touch interactions when this device is used as a tablet". And the feature does not work in build 22623.1325. If I detach the keyboard, nothing happens. I did not change any settings, only installed an update. And I know it's the update because I uninstalled it, paused updates for a week in the hope of a fix, or that the issue was a fluke, & then, when it updated to that build a week later, the same thing happened. Touch optimised taskbar is gone in that build.

And I know searching will get me nowhere because it just gets me articles like that, even when I include the build number.