Windows 11 - Microphone icon in system tray

This is the most useless comment I have ever seen. Nothing you have said on this thread is useful. Congrats on being useless.

If anyone is looking for an actual solution instead of somebody with 0 knowledge tell you no: Explorer Patcher is what you need.

You cannot get rid of it because it is a safety issue.

It's similar to webcam indication light that tells you the webcam is operating.

The only people asking to get rid of the microphone icon is people who are trying to secretly record somebody's else conversation (which is against the law in a lot of states).

This a) does not help the conversation at all and b) I use NVIDIA Shadowplay to record everything 24/7, which deletes all recordings unless I say so. I know it's recording me, it just takes up unnecessary space. Maybe don't assume **** you do not know, thanks

Disable the mic in the sound settings when not using it and the icon goes away.

You completely missed the point of this thread --- they wanted to keep the mic but hide the icon.

Which is impossible because it is illegal in many states in the US to secretly record a conversation without the other person's permission. So Microsoft made sure that there is no way to hide the mic icon. Therefore I put these sentences in big fonts.

So if the mic icon is there, then the end-user is either using the mic themselves or Cortana (or similar some other software is listening in the background). Or the enable "listen to this device" because they read it somewhere on some forum.

You seem to be tarded or something, the world doesen't revolve murica and your privacy issues you seem to have. Stop being plain stupid and don't answer with this stupid **** if you doesen't have answer to the question, There are literally thousands other things there could be other than your first stupid thought of privacy and murica. Like the whole text is taking up the place making it impossible to click and see anything behind it. But your brain might not be able to understand that

this is the most annoying take I've read in a while. Stop trying to derail a normal discussion

Dear JosephT71,

I understand from you that in a number of states (so not all) OF THE US it is part of the law. And that that is done to protect against idiots who want to spy on their spouses.

But why the <censored> should I WHO DOES NOT LIVE IN THE US and who only has windows 11 on a WORK laptop only I use (so no spouse to protect) be FORCED to comply to those rules which are made for the US and not my country.

I want it gone from my taskbar, it annoys me the heck, since I can already see that I explicitly mute / unmute myself in Teams (the only app where I need my mic for). Why have the info also on the taskbar overlapping with other icons.

The US should not treat the rest of the world as part of the US. So don't use that bs as a defense for a bad design.

/*edit*/ Idea: lets take this and other things where Windows 11 removes my freedom of choice to the European Council. Trust me, that means that Microsoft will undo these bad design choices quickly if they remember similar rulings when they tried to force Internet Exploder as the one and only browser for everybody.
This has nothing to do with the core of the operating system, but they are just trying to control my choices. Bad MS.