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Badges are the little icons that appear at the bottom of the lock screen. They exist to tell you something about your computer at a glance, without having to log in — how many email messages are unread, when your next meeting is, and so on. Some badges just appear on the lock screen, no matter what you do. For example, if you have an internet connection, a network badge appears on the lock screen. If you’re using a tablet or laptop, the battery status appears; there’s nothing you can do about it.

In addition to the badges that Windows 11 displays automatically, you can also choose to add a quick status badge that is important to you. The question I most often hear about badges is, “Why can’t I just choose them all?” Good question. The apps that support these badges update their information periodically — every 15 minutes, in some cases. If you have a badge on your lock screen, the lock screen app that controls the badge must wake up every so often, so it can retrieve the data and put it on the lock screen. Putting everything on the lock screen drains your computer’s battery and this may be an important reason why you can choose only one app to show a detailed status.

Here’s how to pick and choose your quick status badge:

1  Click or tap the start icon and then the Settings icon.

2 On the left, choose Personalization.

3 On the right side of the Settings window, choose Lock Screen.

4 Click or tap the Lock Screen Status drop-down list, and choose the app you want from the list (see Figure 2-6).Choosing None means that no app can display a detailed status on the lock screen. Your changes are applied immediately.

Apps must be specially designed to display information on the lock screen. You’re given a choice of all the apps that have registered with Windows 11 as being capable of displaying a quick status badge on the lock screen.

Go back out to the lock screen — click or tap the start icon, your picture, and then Lock — and see whether you like the changes. If you don’t like what you see, start over.

FIGURE 2-6: Choose which app displays detailed information on the lock screen.