Hide or unhide Publishers in News and Interests Taskbar Widget of Windows 11/10

If you do not like to read news from specific websites, you can hide publishers in News and Interests in Windows 11/10. There is an in-built option to manage which website you want to read and which you don’t. It opens a page via Microsoft Edge, and you can hide or unhide them from there.

It is possible to enable or disable News and Interests on Taskbar using Group Policy or Registry Editor in Windows 11/10. It is a panel where you can find the latest news, weather reports, sports result, and many more. Many people like to filter news by websites or have a list of websites that you want to read instead of reading anything. If you are one of them, you may get disappointed since News and Interests shows news fetched from msn.com, which is a consolidation of all the big publishers out there, and the news depends on your region. That’s why you may want to hide some of the publishers that you have a problem with.

How to hide Publishers in Widgets in Windows 11

To hide Publishers in Widgets in Windows 11, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Widgets icon on the Taskbar.
2. Select a story from the publisher you want to hide.
3. Click on the three-dotted icon.
4. Select the Hide stories from [publisher-name] option.
5. Click the Hide button to confirm.

That’s all!

How to unhide publishers in Widgets in Windows 11

To unhide publishers in Widgets in Windows 11, follow these steps:

1. Click on the Widgets icon on the Taskbar.
2. Click on your profile picture.
3. Select the Personalize your interests option.
4. Switch to the Hidden Publishers tab.
5. Click the Unhide button.
6. Click the Confirm button.

After that, you can continue seeing all the stories from the selected publisher.

How do I remove a widget from Windows 11?

To remove a widget from Windows 11’s Widgets panel, you need to click on the respective icon on the Taskbar. Then, select a widget or information card you want to remove and click on the three-dotted icon. After that, select the Remove widget option. If you want to re-add it, click on your profile picture in the Widgets panel, and toggle the corresponding button.

How to edit Widgets on Windows 11?

Editing different elements of Widgets on Windows 11 is relatively easy and not much time-consuming. You can add or remove various things as per your requirements. For that, you need to click on the Widgets icon on the Taskbar and select what you want to edit. For your information, you can add or remove an information card, customize a particular widget, hide stories from a specific publisher, save an article to read later, etc.

How to hide Publishers in News and Interests in Windows 10

To hide publishers in News and Interests in Windows 10, follow these steps:

1. Click on the News and Interests icon in Taskbar.
2. Find out news from the desired website.
3. Click on the three-dotted icon.
4. Select the Hide stories from X.
5. Click on the Hide button to confirm.

Let’s check out these steps in detail.

At first, click on the News and Interests icon visible in the Taskbar and find out news from the website you want to hide. You can find a three-dotted icon that you need to click on and select the Hide stories from X.

For example, if the website name ABC, you can find an option called Hide stories from ABC. Once done, you will get a confirmation window where you need to click on the Hide button.

That’s it! Now, you won’t find the publisher in the News and Interests panel in Windows 10.

Now, in case you have hidden a publisher by mistake, or you want to continue getting news from a hidden publisher, here is how you can unhide it.

How to unhide publishers in News and Interests

To unhide publishers in News and Interests, follow these steps:

1. Click on the News and Interests icon.
2. Click on the Manage interests option.
3. Switch to the Hidden Publishers tab.
4. Click on the Unhide button.
5. Click the Confirm button.

To learn more about these steps, keep reading.

At first, click on the News and Interests icon and select the Manage interests option visible in the panel. It opens the Edge browser on your PC. You need to switch to the Hidden Publishers tab from your left side, showing all the publishers you have hidden earlier.

Click on the corresponding Unhide button to show the publisher again in the News and Interests and click the Confirm button to confirm the change.

That’s all! From now onward, you can find those unhidden publishers again in News and Interest.

Hope this helped you to hide or unhide publishers in News and Interests.

This is just one of the ways you can customize the News and Interests on the Taskbar.