Activate and manage tablet mode in Windows 10

Activate and manage tablet mode in Windows 10

By playing around with the settings, you can better manage how the system is used for touch devices.


Have you bought a Windows 10 tablet but notice that it insists on booting into desktop mode? Have you purchased a combinable or a dock for your tablet and would you like the system to follow your directives independently without offering you dialog boxes or forcing you to manual intervention?

This could be the right guide: reading below you will discover not only how to activate tablet mode in Windows 10 but also how to best manage it to minimize your interactions with the system when you "transform" your tablet into a mini-notebook or vice versa. .


Preliminary information

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Activate tablet mode in Windows 10

Activating tablet mode "on the fly" and manually in Windows 10 is very simple: just open the system notification area - by clicking / tapping on the cartoon icon next to the clock - and select Tablet mode.


It is possible to deactivate the tablet mode in the same way.

Manage tablet mode in Windows 10

Initial note: the automatic activation / deactivation does not work with Bluetooth keyboards and this has nothing to do with the hardware but is a very specific feature of the operating system, as Microsoft explains itself:

Bluetooth keyboard is not supported as an activation method for Continuum. The main problem is that Bluetooth events are linked to pairing and proximity [of the devices], so they are not a sure signal that the keyboard is in use (it may not even be close to the user, for example) nor that the user voluntarily wants to enter or exit 'tablet mode'.

Manually activating or deactivating tablet mode is simple and accessible, however Windows 10 offers some tools to do this automatically, which is particularly useful if you have a combinable or a tablet equipped with a dock or keyboard / mouse.

To access the tablet mode management panel, simply go to Start> Settings> System> Tablet Mode. 

At this point you can:

  • activate or deactivate tablet mode using the first switch;
  • decide what method should be used when logging in - tablet, desktop or last used - via the first drop-down menu;
  • decide how the operating system should behave in case of automatic activation or deactivation of tablet mode, or if a dock or keyboard and mouse is connected or disconnected - you can choose whether to change automatically, ask whether to change or not change at all - using the second drop-down menu;
  • you can choose if keep or hide icons on the taskbar in tablet mode.

By doing so, you will have complete control over the behavior of the operating system during the switch phase and limit manual actions to a minimum.



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