WCR: New privacy settings UI is unclear, has potential localization issues

[riverar]

Describe the bug

The new "Text and image generation" settings UI in Privacy & Security has usability and localization concerns:

1. Unclear toggle hierarchy: The relationship between the global "Text and image generation" toggle and the app-level "Let apps use Text and image generation" toggle is confusing. It's unclear what the app-level toggle's effective state is when the global toggle is already enabled.

   I thought toggling this would allow me to enable AI API access for all apps with and without identity, but that was not the case. I believe the intent of this top-level option in other areas (e.g., Pictures library access) was to give users a master switch to cover apps without identity.

2. Improper resource string reuse: The text "Text and image generation" appears to be reused as a substring across multiple UI elements, leading to inconsistent capitalization. In addition to the grammar being wrong in en-US, this pattern will likely cause localization issues in languages with different grammatical constructs where the same phrase may need different forms depending on context.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Install Windows Insider build 26200.5670 or higher (dev channel)
2. Open Settings and go to Privacy & security > Text and image generation
3. Observe UI (screenshot below)

Expected behavior

No response

Screenshots

NuGet package version

Windows App SDK 1.8 Experimental 4: 1.8.250702007-experimental4

Packaging type

Packaged (MSIX)

Windows version

Insider Build (xxxxx)

IDE

Visual Studio 2022-preview

Additional context

Feedback Hub item: https://aka.ms/AAwzf3r

[anarvekar-msft]

Hey thanks for your comment.

For #1- The global toggle turns on/off text or image generation capabilities for all apps using the AI API. Underneath that is per app level controls. This is standard layout similar to Microphone in the Settings app.

For #2 - we will be making a fix to the strings. Thanks for identifying that.