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Enable search suggestions
Supported versions
- On Windows and macOS since 77 or later
Description
Enables web search suggestions in Microsoft Edge's Address Bar and Auto-Suggest List and prevents users from changing this policy.
If you enable this policy, web search suggestions are used.
If you disable this policy, web search suggestions are never used, however local history and local favorites suggestions still appear. If you disable this policy, neither the typed characters, nor the URLs visited will be included in telemetry to Microsoft.
If this policy is left not set, search suggestions are enabled but the user can change that.
Supported features
- Can be mandatory: Yes
- Can be recommended: Yes
- Dynamic Policy Refresh: Yes
- Per Profile: Yes
- Applies to a profile that is signed in with a Microsoft account: No
Data type
- Boolean
Windows information and settings
Group Policy (ADMX) info
- GP unique name: SearchSuggestEnabled
- GP name: Enable search suggestions
- GP path (Mandatory): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge
- GP path (Recommended): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge - Default Settings (users can override)
- GP ADMX file name: MSEdge.admx
Example value
Enabled
Registry settings
- Path (Mandatory): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
- Path (Recommended): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\Recommended
- Value name: SearchSuggestEnabled
- Value type: REG_DWORD
Example registry value
0x00000001
Mac information and settings
- Preference Key name: SearchSuggestEnabled
- Example value:
<true/>