Microsoft has data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/09/17/paint-snipping-tool-and-notepad-app-updates-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/” data-url=”https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/09/17/paint-snipping-tool-and-notepad-app-updates-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>announced a big update for the Notepad app on data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-11″ data-url=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-11″ target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”/windows-11″ data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-11″>Windows 11 that introduces support for generating, rewriting, and summarizing text using on-device data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/artificial-intelligence” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>AI models instead of the cloud.
Up until now, generative AI features in Notepad have required an internet connection and reached out to the cloud to process your query. This has been tied to your data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/best-office-365-deals” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/best-office-365-deals”>Microsoft 365 subscription, and also required being signed into a Microsoft account to actually use.
But now, with the ability to generate text using…
