Windows 11 - Microphone icon in system tray

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Martin

I want to get rid of the icon too - it's my personal computer that only I use. I live by myself, literally no one else has access to this machine. Don't asume absolutely everyone is malicious.

this is complete trash and not true.

Im asking because I only want a specific number of icons to show up when active. Such as my VPN.

You can have it off because 1 of my laptops running the most current version of windows has no microphone icon despite using the mic in apps like discord.

My new laptop has the icon there and its forced stuck there.

Hi all,

Joseph already (in a reply to me) said that he meant that the only thing he wanted to say is that MS decided to make this decision to show it always since in some US states they are mandatory to show that a camera or microphone is used. This where most of the complainers are either not from the US (like me) or not from a state where there are such rules.
So in my personal opinion he might have defended that decision of MS to fierce, but can we please close this discussion?
The reason I'm asking is that most things I see is not a reaction to original question, but a flame reaction to Josephs reactions. And yes, in my personal opinion, his counter reactions did not help (sorry Joseph), but imagine yourself when you are "attacked" on something you say. Most people will counter-react in a fierce way.

So please can we close this discussion.

I think that the majority shows that we think that MS should not force icons for microphones and cameras to show up where people do not want them. This even though that in some states of the US people need to be able to see that other people turned them on. This is not up to MS, but up to the users / region of the world. Yes the latter leaves up a lot of space for discussion, but if states of US demand that it is visible, it is up to those states and not up to MS in my opinion (as a non-US citicen).