Microsoft Paint Finally Gets Freeform Rotation After Years of Requests
MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026)
Windows 11 Canary Build 28020.1619 brings freeform rotate to the Paint app, letting users rotate shapes, text, and selections to any angle. The build also expands Cross-Device Resume to more Android phones, adds Windows Hello support for peripheral fingerprint sensors, and introduces new accessibility and language options for Narrator, Voice Typing, and the Settings Agent.
With Paint version 11.2601.391.0, we’re excited to introduce freeform rotate, a highly requested feature that gives you more control when editing your artwork.
- flowerlad
MS Paint has broken in so many different ways since they started "improving" it. One big frustration is that the hit areas around selection handles are now oversized--probably because someone read about Fitts's Law. You can no longer move small selected regions because whenever your mouse is within a mile (seemingly) of a handle, it grabs the handle instead of the region.
- alxgsv
(2026) in the title made me giggle
- Gravityloss
It's hard to imagine how the selection rotation demo shown could be less informative...