{"id":20122,"date":"2023-08-14T08:51:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T08:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=20122"},"modified":"2023-08-14T08:51:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T08:51:38","slug":"lock-find-my-device-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/lock-find-my-device-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Methods to Lock the Find My Device Option in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can I prevent others from changing the “Find My Device” settings in Windows 11? Looking for a way to disable the Find My Device permanently? In this tutorial we’ll show you 2 methods to lock the Find My Device option in Windows 11, so others are unable to change it from the Settings app<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Lock the Find My Device Option in Windows 11 via Group Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor<\/a> and browse to: Computer Configuration\\Administrative Templates\\Windows Components\\Find My Device<\/code>. On the right pane, double-click the “Turn On\/Off Find My Device<\/strong>” policy.\n

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  2. You can select the Disabled<\/strong> option to permanently turn off the Find My Device feature, or choose the Enabled<\/strong> option to prevent others from turning off Find My Device.\n

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  3. Close the Local Group Policy Editor. Open the Settings app and you’ll find the “Find My Device” setting is greyed out and locked down.\n

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    Method 2: Lock the Find My Device Option in Windows 11 via Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open Registry Editor<\/a> and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft<\/code>. Right-click the Microsoft<\/code> key and select New<\/strong> -> Key<\/strong>.\n

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    2. Name the new key FindMyDevice<\/strong> and select it. Next, right-click the empty space in the right pane and choose New<\/strong> -> DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/strong>.\n

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    3. Name the DWORD AllowFindMyDevice<\/strong>. Leave its value data as 0 if you want to disable the Find My Device feature permanently, or set it to 1 for turning on Find My Device and lock the setting.\n

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    4. Close Registry Editor.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How can I prevent others from changing the “Find My Device” settings in Windows 11? Looking for a way to disable the Find My Device permanently? In this tutorial we’ll show you 2 methods to lock the Find My Device option in Windows 11, so others are unable to change it from the Settings app. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4713],"tags":[5237,5236,5238],"class_list":["post-20122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-disable-find-my-device-windows-11","tag-find-my-device-windows-11","tag-turn-off-find-my-device-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20122"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20137,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions\/20137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}