Five years later, Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options (and more)

Windows 11's 2024 update finally restores much-missed taskbar options—proving user feedback can wear down stubborn product teams. After five years of complaints, version 23H2 lets you ungroup icons, show labels, and resize the taskbar, features cut in the 2021 redesign. A concrete win: 73% of surveyed Windows Insiders requested ungrouping, per Microsoft's feedback hub, yet it took until 2026 to ship. The result is a taskbar that finally feels finished, not a beta experiment.