windows 11 remove PIN greyed out – Password Recovery https://www.top-password.com/blog Provide useful password recovery tricks, guides and software Thu, 16 Dec 2021 03:36:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 Fix: Windows Hello PIN Remove Button Greyed out in Windows 11 https://www.top-password.com/blog/windows-hello-pin-remove-button-greyed-out-in-windows-11/ Thu, 16 Dec 2021 03:36:42 +0000 https://www.top-password.com/blog/?p=17465 Can’t remove Windows Hello PIN and the “Remove” button is greyed out? By default, the passwordless option is enabled in Windows 11 so you can log into your Microsoft account with a PIN code. However, when you try to remove the PIN sign-in option, you’ll find the “Remove” option is greyed out. To fix this issue, you need to use the following methods to turn off passwordless sign-in option on Windows 11.

Method 1: Disable Passwordless Sign-in on Windows 11 via Settings App

Open the Settings app and navigate to Accounts -> Sign-in option. On the right side, scroll down to the “Additional settings” section, Turn Off the toggle switch next to “For improved security, only allow Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts on this device“.

Close the Settings app and then open it again, you’ll find the option of removing Windows Hello PIN is clickable.

Method 2: Disable Passwordless Sign-in on Windows 11 via Registry Editor

Open Registry Editor and browse to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PasswordLess\Device. On the right pane, double-click the DWORD value DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion.

Change its value data from 2 to 0. Click OK.

Close Registry Editor. Open the Settings app and go to Accounts -> Sign-in option. Expand the PIN (Windows Hello) section and the Remove button will no longer be greyed out.

That’s it!

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