Most guides say 'turn off fun facts' without showing where the switch lives or why it sometimes vanishes. It only appears for certain background choices, and that one detail explains most of the failed attempts people report. Here is the switch, precisely, including the two situations that make it look broken when it is not.
If your lock screen background is already a picture or a slideshow, this single toggle is your entire job. Its full label is Get fun facts, tips, tricks and more on your lock screen, and it lives on the Lock screen page in Settings. The catch that defeats people: select Windows Spotlight as the background and the toggle disappears from the page completely - not greyed out, gone - because with Spotlight, the facts are part of the package and not optional. Everything else about this small switch follows from that.
Menu wording can vary slightly between Windows builds, but the label above is the one to look for on current Windows 11.
That is the complete fix for a picture background. If you cannot find the toggle, the next card is almost certainly your situation.
Nine times out of ten, the Background dropdown still says Windows spotlight. While it does, Settings hides the fun facts toggle entirely, because Spotlight's facts are delivered as part of the feed rather than as an optional overlay. Change the background to Picture first, and the toggle appears in the same spot on the page. This single ordering mistake - hunting for a switch that the current background hides - is the most common reason people conclude the fix does not work on their machine. On Windows 10 the toggle lives in the same place with slightly longer wording in older builds.
Be clear about the boundary, so you are not disappointed later. This toggle covers the fact and tip boxes laid over your own lock screen picture. It does not remove Spotlight's boxes (only changing the background does that), it does not touch the weather and mail status lines (those are the status app pickers on the same page), and it has no effect on suggestions in the Start menu, the Settings app or notifications after updates. Windows keeps a separate switch for each surface - the cousin surfaces page in this guide maps them.
Two honest causes. First, settings sync: if you use the same Microsoft account on several PCs, an old choice from another machine can be carried back to this one. Set the toggle the way you want it on each PC once. Second, feature updates: the big twice-a-year Windows updates occasionally return suggestion settings to their defaults, this one included. There is no supported way to lock this toggle permanently; the realistic habit is a thirty-second re-check after a feature update, which the returned-ads page in this guide turns into a short routine.
The one click script in the video reaches the same result through the registry instead of the Settings page - the lock screen suggestion switches live in the current user's settings, which is why a script can flip them without deep system changes. On office machines, administrators can govern the same behaviour centrally with policy, which is covered in the office page of this guide. Three roads, one destination: Settings for one PC by hand, the script for repeat jobs, policy for a fleet.
In the video, switches like this one are flipped by the script in a single click. Watch it, then decide whether the manual toggle is all you actually need.
▶️ Watch Full VideoAlmost always because the background is still Windows spotlight. With Spotlight selected, its fact boxes are not controlled by this toggle at all. Change the background to Picture or Slideshow, then switch the toggle off, then press Windows + L to check. If facts still appear over your own slideshow, re-check the same toggle - on some builds it sits with the slideshow options.
No. Your background image or slideshow continues exactly as before. The toggle only controls the text boxes laid over it - facts, tips and similar suggestions. Your photo library, albums and fit settings are untouched.
The sign-in screen does not display fun facts, so there is nothing to switch off there. What it can show is your lock screen background picture, controlled by the separate toggle on the same Settings page. Suggestions that appear after signing in belong to other surfaces, like Start and Settings, each with their own switch.