How to Enable or Disable Show Widget Rotation in Windows 11

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The article provides instructions on how to control live Widget content updates on the Taskbar in Windows 11. Starting with build 25211, Microsoft allows users to control the behavior of Widgets. Procedures include opening Widgets through the weather icon or a keyboard shortcut, accessing Widget settings, and toggling the update functionality on or off.

This article describes steps one can take to turn on or off “Show Widgets rotation” which allows you to see updates from widgets on the Taskbar in Windows 11.

Widgets are feeds of content such as news, weather, stocks, and traffic that are automatically updated with live information on your widgets board.

In Windows, the Widget board opens automatically as you hover over the weather icon on the Taskbar. Well, you can turn that off or on anytime.

Starting with build 25211, Microsoft is adding a new setting to control the behavior of the Widgets, so users can choose whether to see updates from widgets on the Taskbar other than simply showing the weather.

The steps below will show you how to turn on or off whether live Widget content on the Taskbar also shows updates, not just weather info.

How to turn on or off see updates from widgets on the Taskbar in Windows 11

As described above, starting with build 25211, Microsoft is adding a new setting to control the behavior of the Widgets, so users can choose whether to see updates from widgets on the Taskbar other than simply showing the weather.

When this feature is enabled, you should be able to control Widget behavior from the Widgets setting page.

First, you will have to open Widgets by clicking on the weather icon on the Taskbar or use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + W.

Next, click the Profile in the top-right corner to open the Widgets Settings page.

On the Widgets settings page, under Widgets taskbar behavior, you will have the option to see rotating updates on the Taskbar.

Toggle the switch button to the Off position on the “Show announcements” tile to disable seeing rotating updates from Widgets.

To re-enable, toggle the switch button back to the On position.

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to enable or disable Show widget rotation in Windows 11. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have something to add.

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