Windows 10: Turning Off SafeSearch

In ‘Permissions and History’ SafeSearch is Off





Region is set to United Kingdom;

Running Windows 10 version 20H2 is installed, in November
Windows firewall is off

But ‘SafeSearch’ will just not turn off.


I did a search for a film review entering “Guardian film review “Mother!”” and I got the following:






This is absurd!

Clicking on ‘Learn More’ I get this: see screenshot




How can I switch off Safe Search?? Any suggestions??

:)

 

taking off safesearch

Hi Rebecca,

Turning off SafeSearch is different for every search engines and turning it off will not any filter adult contents, so it might not be safe if there are minors around. Here are different steps in turning off
SafeSearch:



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• Click “Windows” icon, then the gear like icon for “Settings”.
• Choose Permission & History.
• You’ll see radio buttons under SafeSearch, select your desired permission.
  

For Bing.com you may follow the steps in this
article.



Following these steps should resolve your concern in searching without restrictions. If you are referring for some other search engines, we recommend for you to check their support site for better assistance.



Let us know if you need anything else.

 

Family settings impacting safesearch

Hi Joshua,

In order to help you with your concern about SafeSearch option, kindly answer the following questions first:

• What browser are you currently using?
• Does the issue happens to all browsers in your PC?
• What search engine are you utilizing when the issue occurred?

If you are using Bing as your search engine, then you may need to turn off the SafeSearch option by following the steps from this link:

Turn Bing SafeSearch on or off.

Kindly reply to this thread for us to help you further.

Regards.

 

safesearch

Hi David,

My name is Roger W, an independent advisor trying to help. Let's try with the following suggestions, please:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/402641...

Let us know if the solution above works for you.