Privacy and Security Enable or Disable Recall Search History in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off search history in Recall 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. For example, you can search for content you've seen in apps, websites, images, and documents. Recall doesn't record audio or save continuous video. It also doesn’t save game video when Game Mode is active on platforms that support it.

As you type in the search box in Recall, you will see a drop menu of suggestions from your search history to select from if wanted.

Your search history in Recall is turned on by default, but you can turn off search history if wanted.

Turning off search history in Recall will also clear the search history.

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EXAMPLE: Search history in Recall





Here's How:

1 Open Recall (Win+J).

2 Click/tap on Timeline on the left side. (see screenshot below)


3 Click/tap on the Settings (gear) button at the bottom of the navigation bar on the left side of Recall. (see screenshots below step 3)

4 Click/tap on Turn off search history or Turn on search history (default) for what you want. (see screenshots below)


5 If prompted by Windows Security, click/tap on OK to approve. (see screenshot below)



That's it,
Shawn Brink