Then, click the ‘Pause syncing’ menu and choose a time frame for which you want to disable sync. Next, click on the ‘Help & Settings’ in the OneDrive window. Now, you would see the OneDrive icon, click on that icon. Close that folder and head to the taskbar corner overflow area. Then, click on ‘OneDrive’ in the search results. If you don’t see the OneDrive icon in the overflow area, click on the Windows (Start) icon and search for ‘OneDrive’.

To pause the OneDrive, click the taskbar corner overflow ^ icon (also called System tray) on the right side of the taskbar and click on the ‘OneDrive’ icon (cloud icon) in the Notification/Overflow area. OneDrive lets you pause the background syncing process (including upload and download) for 2, 8, and 24 hours. Sometimes, you don’t want to fully disable OneDrive but to pause the syncing process for some time.

Pause OneDrive Sync in Windows 11 (Temporarily)

And this guide will show you how to do all of that. Fortunately, Windows gives you various options to temporarily disable OneDrive, permanently disable it, prevent OneDrive from running on the startup, or completely remove it. While OneDrive is a really good cloud service, you may be inclined to disable it if you already have another online storage service like Google, Dropbox, Mega, Amazon Drive, or something similar. Also, sometimes OneDrive moves your files to the cloud and leaves you with only thumbnails (not actual files) or shortcuts on your local drive and you won’t be able to access them unless you are connected to the internet. It helps you keep your photos, documents, and other data backed up, synced, and accessible on all your devices connected to your OneDrive account.īut the problem is it may keep popping up from time to time asking you to backup your data or it may slow down your internet and PC. It is a built-in file hosting and synchronization service that you get when you set up your Windows 11 operating system.

OneDrive is a cloud storage service that is developed and managed by Microsoft.

How to turn off sync on onedrive