Disable Weather Information on Lock Screen in Windows 10/11
If the Lock Screen in your Windows 10 or Windows 11 device is showing live weather updates and forecast information and you want to get rid of this new experience, this article will help you in disabling and removing weather information from Windows 10/11 Lock Screen.
Following screenshot shows how the new weather information feature looks on Windows 11 or Windows 10 devices:
Users will see a new widget or gadget added at the bottom of the Lock Screen which displays live weather updates and weather forecast information for the user’s selected region or city.
NOTE: This new weather experience will be enabled by default if the user is not showing any app status on the Lock Screen.
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Microsoft Added Richer Weather Experience on Lock Screen in Windows 10 and 11
Actually it’s a new feature introduced for Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems. It’s called “Richer Weather Experience on Lock Screen” by Microsoft.
Microsoft started testing this new weather feature recently in Windows 11 Insider Preview build 23612 released to Dev channel on January 03, 2024. We posted about it in our exclusive Windows 11 Insider Preview builds update and changelog articles which can be found at following links:
Windows 11 Dev Insider Preview Build Updates
Windows 11 Dev Insider Preview Builds Changelog
According to Microsoft, the new richer weather experience on lock screen displays dynamic and interactive weather updates. When the user hovers over the weather experience on the lock screen, more detailed information is shown by Windows. When the user taps or clicks on the weather card and sign in, Microsoft Edge web browser opens with the full weather forecast in MSN Weather.
Now Microsoft has started adding the new feature to public stable versions of Windows 11 operating system. The recently released KB5034123 update for Windows 11 adds the new weather experience to all Windows 11 devices. The update was released on January 09, 2024 as a part of Patch Tuesday program.
We posted about the new update in our exclusive security news and updates article which can be found at following link:
Latest Security News and Updates for PC and Mobiles
Microsoft is also going to add the same weather information feature to Windows 10. The recently released Windows 10 Insider Preview build 19045.3992 (KB5034203) comes with new richer weather experience feature included. You can learn more about it in following article:
Windows 10 22H2 Insider Preview Build Updates
Very soon all Windows 10 devices will get the new weather feature.
Disable or Remove Weather Information from Windows 10 Lock Screen
Following steps will help Windows 10 users in disabling and removing weather updates and forecast information from Lock Screen:
STEP 1: Open Settings app from Start Menu. Alternatively, you can press WIN+I keys together to directly launch Settings app.
STEP 2: Now go to Personalization -> Lock Screen page.
STEP 3: In right-side pane, look under detailed status and quick status options. You’ll see weather option available under one section. Remove weather option and it’ll immediately delete weather updates and information from the Lock Screen.
In future, if you decide to restore weather information feature on Lock Screen, add weather option again using Lock Screen settings page.
Disable or Remove Weather Information from Windows 11 Lock Screen
If you are using Windows 11 operating system, following steps will help you in disabling and removing weather updates and forecast information from Lock Screen:
STEP 1: Open Settings app from Start Menu. Alternatively, you can press WIN+I keys together to directly launch Settings app.
STEP 2: Now go to Personalization -> Lock Screen page.
STEP 3: In right-side pane, look for “Lock Screen Status” option. It’ll be set to weather information. Click on the drop-down box and select “None” option and it’ll immediately delete weather updates and information from the lock screen.
In future, if you decide to bring back the weather information feature on Lock Screen, select weather information option again in drop-down box using Lock Screen settings page.
Also Check:
[Tip] Disable or Remove Weather Widget on Windows 11 Taskbar
[Tips] Customize or Remove “News and Interests” (Weather) Widget in Windows 10 Taskbar
So I am peacefully using my computer, enjoying it set up the way I like with zero MS intrusions, and along comes an update that puts some cr** widget on my lock screen. Now I have to search to find why it is there and how to get rid of it. If I want cr** on my lock screen I will install it myself!!
@irritated user
This is how I look at Win 11
Despite all my settings in Gpedit, I’v got the pro version for this reason
They installed a Insider Version of Win 11
It’s almost two months later now and I’m still repairing all of my basic setting, I did not lose any data or files, but I’m on this Site ASKVG for years now after 9 years of tweaking I had a beautiful running Win 10 Pro. Luckily if have a ton of Bookmarks with all tweaks .
Still I am not happy at all
PS my laptop is almost fully compatible with Win 11, Except for Acer who are not making drivers for Win 11.
Best regards to VG and keep the work rolling
THANK YOU!
I’m not a fan of these intrusive updates/additions forced on us “by default”.
Thanks for the quick fix. What a useless widget – it’s displaying weather for a location 1,000 miles from where I am located.
Its so irritating to find some new unwanted feature added with no introduction from Microsoft and worse, no given option to enable IF required.
thank you so much, i just started getting these apps showing up randomly after a year and had no idea where to find the settings for it.
Thank you for the timely, well structured, and helpful article.
Thank you for the clear instruction to remove these irritating default changes by Microsoft.👍
thank you for this, it really helps, i appreciate it, i really don’t like these microsoft update forcing things into our system. windows 11 is already bad enough, i wonder what the tech team in microsoft are thinking.
Brilliant, thank you.
Thanks for the clear instructions, quick and effective.
Thanks VG-
You saved me time looking around for a superfluous feature that MS thinks everyone should have by default after an update.
I had my win11 pro set the way I want, these MS intrusions give me the, big brother is watching you, creeps-
If I want to know the weather, I will open a page that tells me what the weather is.
If I do not want to know the weather, or stock market indexes, or ANYTHING, then the thing showing up on my screen is a distraction that you are making me wade through, before getting to what I am really interested in.
Worse yet, it is sometimes a struggle to keep in mind/memory what I originally wanted to use the computer for, while processing (and trying hard to ignore) content that I never asked for.
Thanks for your attention. Have a nice day.
Looks like that’ll do the trick. Windows started displaying stock ticker info on my lock screen after today’s update. Thanks for saving me time.
Another MS intrusion which is of no use to me. Outlook is now a nightmare app, especially on the phone. If Windows keeps going this way, I might try Apple! Yes its that bad. Thanks for the quick fix.
MS should offer us a Master Button; one click removes all unnecessary and unwanted stuff. Alternatively they should stop paying people to invent it.
I have Win10 and there is no “Lock Screen Status” as an option. I have disabled “Fun facts, tips and more from Windows, etc.” and restarted my computer and they’re still there.
Over the past 2-weeks, Microsoft has added weather, sports and market trends, none of which I’m interested in seeing. It really bugs me that Microsoft now owns our computers!!
Who in Microsoft thinks that just because some graduate intern has come up with another pointless way of eating up memory and resources, we should all suddenly, without any heads up or requests, be subjected to this feature. Just leave the operating systems alone: and we don’t need more widgets or emojis.
This helped ease frustrations with my work computer, thank you so much! My lock screen is nice and clear now. It’s exactly these kinds of updates and features that have pushed me to move all my personal computers to open source operating systems. My PC running Linux Mint looks exactly the way I want it, and if I want an extra feature or widget it’s easy to add. Adding extra features you want is always better than having to take away features you don’t want.
Thank you so much for this! I was so annoyed by this new feature that just popped up one day and it didn’t even show the correct weather etc.
As of October 2nd, 2024, Microsoft has removed this “None’ option in Windows 11 Pro, but if you select “Dev Mode’ from the drop-down menu it works.
Thank you for this article. I was so annoyed at having my beautiful lock screen photo obscured without my permission.