This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the Visual Search Alt+Shift+S keyboard shortcut in Microsoft Edge for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Visual Search is a feature in Microsoft Edge that lets you search for images on Bing.
Visual Search lets you quickly explore more related content about entities in an image.
Visual Search is available by default via image hover menu, context menu, and Alt+Shift+S keyboard shortcut.
You can turn on or off the keyboard shortcut used to open Visual Search in Microsoft Edge.
This setting is currently only available in the Canary and Dev builds of Microsoft Edge.
Contents
- Option One: Turn On or Off Visual Search Keyboard Shortcut in Microsoft Edge in Settings
- Option Two: Turn On or Off Visual Search Keyboard Shortcut in Microsoft Edge from Visual Search
1 Open Microsoft Edge.
2 Click/tap on the Setting and more (Alt+F) 3 dots button, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)
3 Click/tap on Appearance in the left pane, and click/tap on Browser behavior and features under "Other appearance settings". (see screenshot below)
If you do not see a left pane, then either click/tap on the 3 bars menu button towards the top left OR widen the horizontal borders of the Microsoft Edge window until you do.
4 Under Visual Search, turn On (default) or Off Use keyboard shortcut to trigger Visual Search for what you want. (see screenshot below)
1 Open Microsoft Edge.
2 Press the Alt + Shift + S keys to open Visual Search.
3 Click/tap on Customize on the Visual Search bar. (see screenshot below)
4 Turn On (default) or Off Enable shortcut for Visual Search for what you want, and click/tap on the Close (X) button. (see screenshot below)
5 Click/tap on the Close (X) button on the Visual Search bar. (see screenshot below)
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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