How to Turn Off Shared Experiences in Windows 11

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The article instructs users on enabling or disabling the ‘Share Experiences’ feature on Windows 11. This function allows sharing of apps and settings between devices connected to a Microsoft account, fostering cross-device activities. The guide provides steps to operate this feature through Windows Policy, via the Local Group Policy Editor, which may be beneficial in…

This post shows students and new users steps to share experiences on or off when using Windows 11. Share experiences enable Nearby sharing and Sharing across devices in Windows.

Most people have multiple devices and often begin an activity on one device but finish it on another. To accommodate this, apps must span devices and platforms where Share across devices comes in.

When you enable share experiences, all your devices connected with your Microsoft accounts can share apps and settings across each device. This can be a good or bad thing.

Below is how to turn shared experiences on or off in Windows 11.

You can use Windows policy to turn off continued experiences on your devices so that they do not participate in cross-device experiences and are not discovered by other devices. Doing this might help prevent security issues or accidental changes to all your devices.

How to turn off share experiences in Windows 11

As mentioned above, one can turn on or off and share experiences in Windows 11. In addition, shared experiences enable Nearby sharing and Sharing across devices in Windows.

You can use Windows policy to disable continue experiences on your Windows devices so that they are not participating in cross-device experiences and are not discovered by other devices.

Below is how to do that:

First, open the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit. msc) by going to the Start menu and searching for and selecting Edit group policy, as shown in the image below.

Once the group policy editor opens, navigate to the policy location below in the left pane:

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy

On the policy window in the right pane, select and open (double-click) the policy called “Continue the experience on this device.

Once the window opens, select Disabled to turn off Continue experiences on the device. Finally, click OK and save and exit.

Continue experiences will be disabled on all devices you configure this way.

How to enable continued experiences on devices in Windows 11

Anyone can use Continue Experiences on Windows devices in the Settings app by default. However, if you think this is a security risk or don’t want your users to use it, you can disable it in Windows with a few clicks.

To do that, reverse the steps above by going to the path below in the Local Group Policy editor.

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy

Then, double-click Continue experiences on this device to open.

On the window that opens, select the Not configured option to allow users to use Continue experiences on the device again.

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to turn on or off the continuing experiences feature in Windows 11. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have something to share.

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