How to Customize Microsoft Edge Sidebar

How to Customize Microsoft Edge Sidebar

Microsoft Edge sidebar with a handful of features. You can add new icons or remove services you don’t use by customizing the sidebar.

Customizing Edge Sidebar

Let’s customize the Edge sidebar and make it look how you want. To get started:

  1. Click the three-dot settings menu in the top-right corner.Three Dots Settings Menu on Edge
  2. Select Settings.
    Edge Settings
  3. From the left pane, select Sidebar.Edge Settings - Sidebar
  4. Click Customize sidebar.Customize the Edge Sidebar

You now have the customizing options open. Let us go over our options.

Adding Websites to Edge Sidebar

You can keep your favorite websites on the sidebar.

Add sites to Edge sidebar

How do you remove sites from the sidebar? Right-click the site’s icon and choose Remove from Sidebar.

Remove sites from Edge sidebar

You can also scroll down to the bottom of the customizer and click Remove next to the websites you added.

Remove sites from Edge sidebar.

Now that you know how to add and remove websites from the sidebar, let’s move on to Microsoft services on the sidebar.

Adding and Removing Apps on the Sidebar

Edge has many apps on the sidebar giving you quick access to your favorite services. You can customize this list by choosing what you want to show on the sidebar.

Use the toggle next to each service to show or hide it on the sidebar.

Show or hide apps on the Edge sidebar

Summary

The Edge sidebar can be a useful tool if you customize it to meet your needs. Otherwise, it might turn out to be a messy list of icons that you don’t want to see on your screen.

I hope you were able to customize the sidebar to your liking. Do you have any questions? Ask me in the comments section below.