Suggestion: Allow certain shared apps from Windows to be disabled from appearing in Spotlight

Discussion in 'Product updates and feedback' started by Carlosd10, Mar 12, 2026.

  1. Carlosd10

    Carlosd10

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    I like to use coherence mode, for which I have to enable sharing Windows apps with MacOS, but my spotlight gets cluttered with certain windows apps. Sometimes I search for an app and accidentally end up opening a Windows app, which means I have to wait for the VM to start up, close the app, and close the VM.

    On the other hand, as I said, I like to use coherence mode, and it is indeed nice to be able to open certain Windows apps from spotlight as if they were MacOS apps, but maybe I don't wanna open specific Windows apps that are useless 99% of the time, especially if they have MacOS analogues, like the Xbox Game Bar, Copilot, the Windows Calendar, System Configuration (msconfig), Windows' sound recorder, etc....

    It would be nice to have a way to disable/enable apps that I want or dont want to use. And the others are shared as well for coherence purposes but don't appear in spotlight. If I want to open them, I go to the Windows start menu.
     
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  2. AndrewB68

    AndrewB68

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    I would love to see this. I don't need a million stupid windows apps showing up in spotlight, and sometimes it's hard to tell where an app will actually open. I have some apps that need to be installed on both the VM and native, and those are especially annoying.
     

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