How to Enable or Disable Widget Rotation on Windows 11

This guide explains how to turn the “Show widgets rotation” feature on or off. This setting lets you see live updates from your widgets directly on your Windows 11 taskbar.

Why do this? Widgets provide live feeds like news weather, stocks, and traffic updates. By default, your taskbar usually just shows the weather. Changing this setting lets you see other live information without clicking anything.

What happens when done? Once you change this setting, your taskbar will either show a rotating feed of information or stick to just the weather icon.

Widgets are feeds of content that stay updated automatically. The widget board opens when you hover over the weather icon on the Taskbar. You can also turn that off or on anytime. Starting with build 25211, Microsoft added a new setting to control how these widgets appear on the Taskbar.

How to change widget updates on the Taskbar

Starting with build 25211, you can choose if your taskbar shows more than just the weather. You can control this from the Widgets settings page on your Taskbar.

1. Open your Widgets by clicking the weather icon on your taskbar. You can also press the Windows key + W on your keyboard.
2. Click your Profile icon in the top-right corner to open the Widgets settings page.

On the settings page, look for the section labeled Widgets taskbar behavior.

• To stop the updates, toggle the switch for Show announcements to the Off position.
• To see the updates again, toggle the switch back to the On position.

That is all you need to do to manage your taskbar widgets.

Summary

This post explained how to toggle the “Show widget rotation” feature in Windows 11. By accessing your Widgets settings, you can choose whether your taskbar displays rotating live updates or remains focused solely on weather information.