notification bell and rewards icons missing in microsoft start default page on edge

Anonymous
2024-10-15T15:48:08+00:00

since few days, the notification bell icon (rated/answered comments from media articles, new followers, etc ), smartphone icon and microsoft reward icon in the top-right corner of edge default home page (the one with daily news, weather, etc) all vanished, i have only the parameters icon available.

all notification are checked "on" in microsoft start config page.

and the icons appear without problems in the differents press articles pages, the missing icons problem seems to occur only in the edge new tab default page.

how to get the icons back???

Microsoft Edge | Website issues | Windows 11

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-17T20:10:20+00:00

    This reply is correct. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to bring the icons to your personalized start page. This looks like Microsoft's ham-fisted way to force you to click on MSN for the top right icons of weather, rewards, notifications and settings. I guess they want to annoy people into making the MSN front page the default start page whenever you open Edge, just like when you open the browser for the very first time.

    Yes, I think you are correct. No amount of searching or trying this or that had any effect on icons reappearing until I did the Reset settings. I wasn't sure if I was creating a bigger mess or even if would change anything. Flabbergasted to find everything was pretty much like I wanted it and pretty much had been before this started in mid-October.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-17T14:59:54+00:00

    This reply is correct. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to bring the icons to your personalized start page. This looks like Microsoft's ham-fisted way to force you to click on MSN for the top right icons of weather, rewards, notifications and settings. I guess they want to annoy people into making the MSN front page the default start page whenever you open Edge, just like when you open the browser for the very first time.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-16T21:56:18+00:00

    See my reply of today, Saturday, 11/16/2024, of the fix that I found that solved my problem. Maybe it will help you as well.

    Click on three dots in upper right corner → ...

    Click on Settings

    In drop-down menu toward the bottom click on Reset settings.

    After doing this my bell 🔔 icon was restored and solved a few other annoyances as well.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-16T21:54:22+00:00

    If you click the MSN logo it opens a new tab which you can change to suit what you want to see and also has the missing icons back.

    Hth?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-16T19:47:45+00:00

    Click on the MSN icon top left for a new tab and they show in there

    Hth

    Just to add for some reason MS dont allow you to change what link opens on a new tab, it would be ideal in this situation.

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