Windows 10: Pin and Unpin People Contacts on Taskbar in Windows 10

How to: Pin and Unpin People Contacts on Taskbar in Windows 10

How to Pin and Unpin People Contacts on Taskbar in Windows 10


Starting with Windows 10 build 16184, there is a new People Bar icon on the taskbar notification area. Whether you want to share a photo, make plans for dinner, or get an answer from a friend or coworker My People is here to take it to the next level and bring the people you care about most to the center of your experience.

You can:

• Pin your people to the taskbar – Some will be suggested to start with, or you can pick your own! (Note: you are currently limited to having 3 people pinned to your taskbar currently.)
• View multiple communication apps together and filtered to each person on your taskbar.
• Choose the app you want to use to chat and it’ll remember for next time.

Windows 10 build 16199 brings even more personal ways to stay in touch and share with the people closest to you.

Microsoft adding:

• See emoji from your pinned contacts: When you receive emoji from your pinned contacts you can now watch them appear and animate right from the taskbar! Have one of your pinned contacts send you an emoji via Skype (for example “(hero)”) and see what happens! If you’d like to turn this off, open taskbar settings by right-clicking on the taskbar.
• Notification Badging: The contacts pinned to your taskbar will now display a counter if there are unseen messages, ensuring you have at-a-glance access to communications you have missed from your pinned contacts. Note: You might need to update Skype to version 11.16.556.0 to see notification badges when new Skype messages come in.
• People-first Sharing: You now have two easy ways to share with your people in Windows 10! Drag-and-drop files directly onto the contacts in your taskbar to start an email, or share directly to your contacts via the share picker by choosing from a list recommended people to email.

Starting with Windows 10 build 16226, My People has gotten the following improvements:

• Microsoft added text to the overflow area in the People flyout to make it more clear the people listed there are pinned.
• Microsoft updated the “Switch apps” button in the People flyout to now use the a hamburger icon, to make it more visually distinct from the back button.
• If you right-click the taskbar, you’ll now find an option to easily turn on or off People.
• Microsoft fixed an issue from the last flight where the People flyout would crash if you tapped “Find and pin contacts”.

Starting with Windows 10 build 17063, you can now drag and drop contacts to rearrange them in the taskbar. You can also drop contacts into and out of the People flyout. Note: as part of this feature change, when you upgrade, if you have multiple contacts pinned to taskbar you will notice that their order will reverse direction on the taskbar.

People pinned to the taskbar will not show unless you have the People Bar turned on.

You are currently limited to having 3 contacts pinned to the taskbar on the People bar.

• Only the first 3 contacts you pin to the taskbar will show by default.
• If you pinned more than 3 contacts to the taskbar, then the pinned contacts over the first 3 pinned will only show in the order you pinned them when you unpin contacts already showing.

See: Change how many My People Contacts can be Pinned to Taskbar in Windows 10

This tutorial will show you how to pin and unpin People contacts on the taskbar for your account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Pin People to Taskbar in People app
• Option Two: To Unpin People from Taskbar in People app
• Option Three: To Pin People to Taskbar in People Bar
• Option Four: To Directly Unpin People from Taskbar in People Bar
• Option Five: To Unpin People from Taskbar in People Bar

EXAMPLE: People contacts pinned to taskbar









OPTION ONE [/i] To Pin People to Taskbar in People app
1. Open the People app.
2. Open the contact you want to pin to the taskbar, click/tap on the Pin

button, and click/tap on Pin to Taskbar. (see screenshot below)



3. Click/tap on Pin to confirm. (see screenshot below)



4. When finished, you can close the People app if you like.




OPTION TWO [/i] To Unpin People from Taskbar in People app
1. Open the People app.
2. Open the contact you want to pin to the taskbar, click/tap on the Pin

button, and click/tap on Unpin to Taskbar. (see screenshot below)



3. Click/tap on Unpin to confirm. (see screenshot below)



4. When finished, you can close the People app if you like.




OPTION THREE [/i] To Pin People to Taskbar in People Bar
1. Click/tap on the People icon on the taskbar to open the People Bar. (see screenshots below)

2. In People, click/tap on a contact you want to pin to the taskbar.

*note If the contact you want to pin is not in the suggested list, then you can click/tap on More contacts at the bottom to see all of your contacts.





3. The contact will now open and automatically be pinned to the taskbar. (see screenshot below)

4. You can now close the contact if you like.







OPTION FOUR [/i] To Directly Unpin People from Taskbar in People Bar
1. Right click or press and hold on a contact in the People Bar you want to unpin, and click/tap on Unpin from the Taskbar. (see screenshot below)








OPTION FIVE [/i] To Unpin People from Taskbar in People Bar
1. Click/tap on a contact in the People Bar you want to unpin to open it. (see screenshot below)
2. Click/tap on the More options

button, and click/tap on Unpin from the Taskbar.



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That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Add or Remove People Button from Taskbar in Windows 10
• How to Enable or Disable People Bar on Taskbar in Windows 10
• Change how many My People Contacts can be Pinned to Taskbar in Windows 10
• How to Export and Import Contacts for People app in Windows 10
• How to Turn On or Off Show My People Pops in Windows 10
• How to Turn On or Off Play Sound for My People Pop in Windows 10
• How to Turn On or Off My People Suggested Apps in Windows 10
• How to 'Pin to taskbar' and 'Unpin from taskbar" Apps in Windows 10
• How to Pin any File to the Taskbar in Windows 10
• How to 'Pin to taskbar' Folder and Drive in Windows 10
• How to Add Toolbars on the Taskbar in Windows 10
• How to Remove Toolbars on the Taskbar in Windows 10

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Clear "Pin suggested" list in People Bar


Does anybody know how to clear the "Pin suggested" list on the "People bar"?

Contacts are added to the "Pin suggested" list once you've pinned and unpinned them. But there seems to be no obvious way to remove them from that list.

After playing around with this feature and pinning and unpinning many dummy contacts, it's rather annoying to see them in the "Pin suggested" list when you click on the "My People" icon in the taskbar.

 

Clear "Pin suggested" list in People Bar


Thanks Josey Wales,

I can pin and unpin People contacts to the taskbar without problems, but these contacts will still show up on the "Pin suggested" list. It's this list I want to clear, because some contacts or double and some are dummy contacts. It's not that big of a deal, but it's rather annoying to have them suggested to me.

 

Clear "Pin suggested" list in People Bar


Pin and Unpin People Contacts on Taskbar in Windows 10 Apps Features Tutorials

 

Change how many People Contacts can be Pinned to Taskbar in Windows 10


@Brink
It might be prudent to include, in the tutorial, the ability to use an extensive CapacityOfPeopleBar value, then 'Put everyone in overflow';
then you will have an extensive, unified list in the Overflow Menu and no random 'suggestions', as well as the ability to 'drag to order'.
The setting will remain and survive a reboot etc, while the Reg setting defaults to 0.





Of course, I'll leave it up to your good judgement! *Wink

 

Query re pinning and unpinning apps to taskbar

I tried using Edge and as I liked it I right clicked the app listing and the pinned it to the taskbar.

What I want to know is how to put that Edge listing back with the other apps because if I unpin it from the taskbar how does one reattach Edge to the listings.