Privacy and Security Pause or Resume Recall Snapshots in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to pause temporarily or resume Recall snapshots for your account in Windows 11.

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.

You're always in control of what's saved as a snapshot. You can disable saving snapshots, pause temporarily, filter apps and websites, and delete your snapshots at any time.

To help maintain your privacy, Recall processes your content locally on the Copilot+ PC and securely stores it only on your device. Snapshots are encrypted by Device Encryption or BitLocker, which are enabled by default on Windows 11. Recall doesn't share snapshots with other users that are signed into Windows on the same device. Microsoft can't access or view the snapshots.

You can choose how long snapshots can be saved on your device. In the Maximum storage duration for snapshots setting, select either 30, 60, 90, 180 days, or unlimited. Once snapshots reach the age limit, they are deleted from the device. If you don’t set the maximum storage duration, then snapshots aren’t deleted until the Maximum storage for snapshots limit is reached, and then the oldest snapshots are deleted first.

When you pause Recall, snapshots will be paused until they automatically resume at 12:00 AM. You can manually resume snapshots anytime.

When snapshots are paused, the Recall system tray icon has a slash through it so you can easily tell that saving snapshots is disabled.

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1 Click/tap on the Recall icon in the taskbar system tray. (see screenshots below)

2 Click/tap on either Pause until tomorrow or Resume snapshots.







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 either Pause until tomorrow or Resume snapshots. (see screenshots below)


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



That's it,
Shawn Brink