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One Drive Personal Vault Lock Notification
Hi,
How do you turn on the Windows 11 - One Drive - Personal Vault - "Keep Personal Vault open" notification? May not have worded it exactly right but that is the essence of the question.
Am on Windows 11 (personal), open One Drive, click on Personal Vault, unlock Personal Vault, Personal Vault file explorer page opens. So far no problems - works as expected.
Setting for Personal Vault is to keep open for 1 hour. At the end of the hour, I used to get a notification asking if I still wanted to keep the vault open.
Now - no notification and vault locks.
How do I get this notification back?
As said on Windows 11 with April update - have not done May yet.
One of the most aggravating things about Windows and updates - is that some settings - not know to you or identified - are changed. And now you encounter different or unknown behavior. Incredibly frustrating when you just want your PC to work like you are used to.
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
2 Replies
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.
