This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Recall homepage showing a customized experience using your recent snapshots and app usage for your account on Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs.
Recall is an experience exclusive to Copilot+ PCs that will help you easily find and remember things you've seen using natural language. To help provide you with that "photographic" memory, you can opt in to saving snapshots of your screen periodically. You can quickly search your snapshots to find things on your Copilot+ PC.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26100.5074 (24H2), Recall now opens to a personalized homepage that puts your recent activity and top-used apps and websites front and center, making it easy to pick up where you left off. After turning on snapshot collection, the homepage highlights key productivity features like Recent Snapshots, which show the latest snapshots to help you quickly resume tasks, and Top Apps and Websites, which display the three apps and websites you’ve used most in the past 24 hours. A new navigation bar on the leftmost side of the screen provides quick access to Home, Timeline, Feedback, and Settings.
By default, Recall will customize its homepage using your recent snapshots and app usage. If you’d prefer not to have a customized homepage, you can change the Recall shows a customized experience using your snapshots setting to Off.
Reference:
Privacy and control over your Recall experience - Microsoft Support
support.microsoft.com
Contents
- Option One: Turn On or Off Recall Personalized Homepage in Settings
- Option Two: Turn On or Off Recall Personalized Homepage using REG file
EXAMPLE: Recall Personalized Homepage turned on and off
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Privacy & security on the left side, and click/tap on Recall & snapshots on the right side under "Windows permissions". (see screenshot below)
3 Click/tap on Advanced settings. (see screenshot below)
4 Under Customization, turn on (default) or off Recall shows a customized experience using your snapshots for what you want. (see screenshot below)
5 You can now close Settings if you like.
1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.
2 Turn On Recall Personalized Homepage
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_ON_Recall_homepage_customized_using_snapshots.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SettingSync\WindowsSettingHandlers]
"A9HomeContentEnabled"=dword:000000013 Turn Off Recall Personalized Homepage
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_OFF_Recall_homepage_customized_using_snapshots.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SettingSync\WindowsSettingHandlers]
"A9HomeContentEnabled"=dword:000000004 Save the REG file to your desktop.
5 If you have Smart App Control turned on, you will need to unblock the downloaded REG file.
6 Double click/tap on the downloaded REG file to merge it.
7 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
8 You can now delete the downloaded REG file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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