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One Drive Personal Vault Lock Notification
hi SimplyHuman It sounds like the notification itself may have been disabled or changed after a Windows/OneDrive update rather than the Personal Vault feature actually being broken.
first check:
Settings → System → Notifications
Make sure notifications are enabled globally
Make sure Microsoft OneDrive notifications are specifically allowed
Also check whether:
Focus Assist / Do Not Disturb is enabled
Notification banners are turned off for OneDrive
You could also try:
Signing out of OneDrive and signing back in
Or resetting OneDrive
Unfortunately, Windows updates do sometimes change/reset notification behavior quietly, especially around security-related features like Personal Vault, so you’re definitely not the only one who has run into this kind of frustration.
hi SimplyHuman It sounds like the notification itself may have been disabled or changed after a Windows/OneDrive update rather than the Personal Vault feature actually being broken.
first check:
Settings → System → Notifications
Make sure notifications are enabled globally
Make sure Microsoft OneDrive notifications are specifically allowed
Also check whether:
Focus Assist / Do Not Disturb is enabled
Notification banners are turned off for OneDrive
You could also try:
Signing out of OneDrive and signing back in
Or resetting OneDrive
Unfortunately, Windows updates do sometimes change/reset notification behavior quietly, especially around security-related features like Personal Vault, so you’re definitely not the only one who has run into this kind of frustration.
Thanks - have performed the checks and all were good. Just updated to May updates and hopefully that will help - somehow.
Ok - finally changed the time out option to 20 minutes and then waited to see if the notification would show. And it did - what exactly changed to get the notification back - have no idea. Thank you for the steps.
However, there is still an issue> When the notice shows, you have 2-3 seconds to read and click on 'Keep Open' before the notice disappears and that is not enough time when busy elsewhere on the desktop to read and then click on 'Keep Open'. Subsequently, even if you become active in the Personal Vault - the Vault will still lock - your activity will not prevent the vault from locking. And if you have a file open (Word or Excel or PP) that is based in the vault, you lose that work. And you cannot go into notifications to access that notification to click on it. It disappears. There needs to be a correction in OneDrive/Personal Vault/Windows11 to correct for this fault.
