With the help of the Phone Link app, you can access your mobile phone on your computer. However, not everyone likes getting bombarded by all the notifications that their phone is receiving on their laptop. Therefore, in this post, we are going to see how to turn off Notification Mirroring in Windows 11/10 so that you don’t get your phone’s notifications.
Windows allows users to connect their phones and get a notification on the PC. It comes via the Action Center. However, if you want to keep the link between your phone and PC but do not want to receive the notification, you can disable the notification mirroring.
Turn off Notification Mirroring in Windows 11
To turn off Notification Mirroring in Windows 11/10, use either of the two methods.
- Using Group Policy Editor
- Using Registry Editor
Let us discuss them in detail.
1] Using Group Policy Editor
To turn off notification mirroring in Windows 11/10, follow these steps.
- Press Win+R to open the Run prompt.
- Type gpedit.msc and hit the Enter button.
- Go to Notifications in User Configuration.
- Double-click on Turn off notification mirroring.
- Select the Enabled option.
- Click the OK button.
Let’s delve into these steps in detail to know more.
At first, press Win+R, type gpedit.msc, and hit the Enter button to open the Local Group Policy Editor on your computer. After that, navigate to this path-
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar > Notifications
On the right-hand side, you will get a setting called Turn off notification mirroring. Double-click on it and select the Enabled option.
Then, click on the OK button the save all changes.
The next method is related to Registry Editor. Before changing anything, make sure you create a System Restore point to be on the safe side.
Read: How to get Missed Call notifications on your PC.
2] Disable using Registry Editor
Before we go ahead and configure Registry Editor, it is recommended to create a backup of your registry.
To disable notification mirroring in Windows 11/10 using Regedit, follow these steps.
- Press Win+R.
- Type regedit and hit the Enter button.
- Click the Yes button in the UAC window.
- Navigate to PushNotifications in HKCU key.
- Right-click on it > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.
- Name it as DisallowNotificationMirroring.
- Double-click on it to set the Value data as 1.
- Click the OK button.
Let’s find out more about these steps.
Press Win+R, type regedit, and hit the Enter button. It will show the UAC prompt on your screen. Click the Yes button to open Registry Editor on your computer. After that, navigate to the following path-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PushNotifications
Right-click on PushNotifications > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value and name it as DisallowNotificationMirroring.
Now, double-click on DisallowNotificationMirroring to set the Value data as 1.
Next, click the OK button to save the change.
In case you want to turn on notification mirroring, set the Value data as 0 or disable select the Not Configured option in the Local Group Policy Editor.
That’s all! Hope it helps.
How do I turn off unwanted notifications in Windows 11?
If turn off notifications or limit them, we can use the Windows Settings. So, open Settings by Win + I, now, go to System > Notifications. You can either disable notifications completely or limit them by disabling the apps that are allowed to send notifications.
Also Read: How to Turn off Notifications in Chrome, Edge or Firefox
