This tutorial will show you how to activate the Presence Sensing feature on Windows 11 build 22624.1610 (and later releases) to limit how apps can detect your proximity to the device.
Features that employ particular sensors on the device to determine whether you are close to the computer are referred to as presence sensing. Controlling whether apps can access the sensors to identify your presence will be possible with the new Settings app page.
However, only devices with suitable presence sensors can access the settings page. If so, you can now control your privacy by allowing or prohibiting specific apps from using these sensors. To protect privacy, Microsoft won’t gather any photos or metadata, and all processing is carried out locally on the hardware of the device.
This tutorial will show you how to activate Windows 11’s Presence Sensing feature.
Enable Presence Sensing on Windows 11
Follow these instructions to activate Presence Sensing on Windows 11:
OpenSettings on Windows 11.
Click on Security & Privacy.
On the Presence Sensing tab, click.
To activate Presence sensing in Windows 11, turn on the Presence sensing access toggle switch.
(Optional) To turn off Windows 11’s presence detection, turn off the Presence sensing access toggle switch.
Activate the switch that allows apps to utilize presence sensing.
You may choose which apps have access to presence sensors by turning them on or off.
Following the instructions, you will be able to manage the applications that can detect your proximity to your Windows 11 computer.
If the settings page is not visible, either the computer does not have compatible sensors to activate the Presence Sensing feature, or the device is not running the most recent version of Windows 11 that supports the feature.