This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Resume (aka: Hand Off) apps for your account in Windows 11.
Resume (aka: Hand Off) allows you to start something in an app on one device (ex: Android phone) and continue on your PC.
Starting with Windows 11 build 22635.4515 (Beta), Microsoft is gradually rolling out the ability to seamlessly resume working on OneDrive files from your phone (iOS and Android) on your Windows 11 PC with a single click. With this feature, you will get a notification asking you if you want to pick up where you left off editing a OneDrive file like a Word doc that you last viewed or edited on your phone within a 5-minute time window preceding unlocking your PC.
Here are some important details about how this feature works:
- This feature works only when signing into OneDrive with a Microsoft account. Work and school accounts are not supported. And you need to be using the same Microsoft account signing into OneDrive on your phone and signing into your Windows 11 PC.
- This feature supports Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, OneNote notebooks/pages, and PDFs.
- The OneDrive file must be opened on your phone when your PC is locked. If you then unlock your PC within 5 minutes of accessing the file on your phone, you will receive the resume notification as noted above.
- For the best experience using this feature, you should be logged into OneDrive in your default browser on your PC.
- Your PC should be on Build 22635.4515 and higher in the Beta Channel.
Contents
- Option One: Turn On or Off Resume for All Apps in Settings
- Option Two: Turn On or Off Resume for All Apps using REG file
- Option Three: Turn On or Off Resume for Specific Apps in Settings
- Option Four: Turn On or Off Resume for Specific Apps in Registry Editor
EXAMPLE: A cross-device resume notification indicating that you can continue working across devices seamlessly
Upon clicking on this notification, the same file that you were viewing or editing previously on your phone will open in your default browser on your PC.
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Apps on the left side, and click/tap on Resume on the right side. (see screenshot below)
3 Turn On (default) or Off Resume for what you want. (see screenshot below)
4 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 Resume
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_Resume.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CrossDeviceResume\Configuration]
"IsResumeAllowed"=dword:000000013 Turn Off Resume
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_OFF_Resume.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CrossDeviceResume\Configuration]
"IsResumeAllowed"=dword:000000004 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
This option requires Resume to be turned on in Option One or Option Two
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Apps on the left side, and click/tap on Resume on the right side. (see screenshot below)
3 Under Control which apps can use Resume, turn On (default) or Off the listed apps (ex: OneDrive) you want. (see screenshot below)
4 You can now close Settings if you like.
This option requires Resume to be turned on in Option One or Option Two
1 Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
2 Navigate to the key below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CrossDeviceResume\Configuration
3 In the right pane of the Configuration key, double click/tap on an app's DWORD value you want to modify it. (see screenshot above)
An app's DWORD value will be listed as: Is<app name>ResumeAllowed.
An example for OneDrive: IsOneDriveResumeAllowed
4 Type 1 (on - default) or 0 (off) for what you want in the "Value data" box, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)
5 Repeat steps 3 and 4 for any other app(s) you want to turn on or off allow to use Resume.
6 When finished, you can close Registry Editor if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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