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VisualSearchEnabled

Visual search enabled

Supported versions

  • On Windows since 95 or later
  • On macOS since 114 or later

Description

Visual search lets you quickly explore more related content about entities in an image.

If you enable or don't configure this policy, visual search will be enabled via image hover, context menu, and search in sidebar.

If you disable this policy, visual search will be disabled and you won't be able to get more info about images via hover, context menu, and search in sidebar.

Note: Visual Search in Web Capture is still managed by WebCaptureEnabled policy.

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: VisualSearchEnabled
  • GP name: Visual search enabled
  • 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

Disabled

Registry settings

  • Path (Mandatory): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
  • Path (Recommended): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\Recommended
  • Value name: VisualSearchEnabled
  • Value type: REG_DWORD

Example registry value

0x00000000

Mac information and settings

  • Preference Key name: VisualSearchEnabled
  • Example value:
<false/>

See also