This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off sharing across devices for your account in Windows 11.
Share across devices (aka: "Project Rome", "Shared Experiences", and "Cross-device Experiences") allows you to continue app experiences on other devices connected to your account.
You can select to share app experiences on My devices only or with Everyone nearby.
- My devices only (default) = Only allows apps running on devices you have signed into with the same Microsoft account to use this feature.
- Everyone nearby = Gives everyone near you permission to use the share across devices feature with your PC.
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Share across devices will need to be turned on for each device that you want to share app experiences across.
Contents
- Option One: Turn On or Off Share Across Devices for App Experiences in Settings
- Option Two: Turn On or Off Share Across Devices for App Experiences using REG file
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Apps on the left side, and click/tap on Advanced app settings or Apps & features on the right side. (see screenshot below)
Open Advanced app settings
3 Click/tap on Share across devices to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 4)
4 Select Off , My devices only (default), or Everyone nearby for what you want. (see screenshot below)
5 You can now close Settings if you like.
1 Do step 2 (off), step 3 (My devices only),or step 4 (Everyone nearby) below for what you want.
2 Turn Off Share Across Devices
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 5 below.
Turn_off_share_app_experiences_across_devices.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CDP]
"CdpSessionUserAuthzPolicy"=dword:00000000
"RomeSdkChannelUserAuthzPolicy"=dword:000000003 Turn On Share Across Devices for My Devices Only
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 5 below.
Share_app_experiences_across_devices_on_my_devices_only.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CDP]
"CdpSessionUserAuthzPolicy"=dword:00000001
"RomeSdkChannelUserAuthzPolicy"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CDP\SettingsPage]
"RomeSdkChannelUserAuthzPolicy"=dword:000000014 Turn On Share Across Devices for Everyone Nearby
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 5 below.
Share_app_experiences_across_devices_with_everyone_nearby.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CDP]
"CdpSessionUserAuthzPolicy"=dword:00000002
"RomeSdkChannelUserAuthzPolicy"=dword:00000002
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CDP\SettingsPage]
"RomeSdkChannelUserAuthzPolicy"=dword:000000025 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
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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