Microsoft says Home windows 11’s taskbar will not get drag-and-drop, by design

However it isn’t an ideal implementation. To maneuver the Home windows 11 taskbar, it’s a must to go to Home windows Settings → Personalization → Taskbar → Taskbar conduct → Taskbar place. There you could select between “Left,” “Prime,” “Proper,” and “Backside.” There’s a definite lack of handy drag-and-drop utilizing the mouse as there was in Home windows 10.

Microsoft has no plans to alter this. “It is a deliberate design alternative and never a lacking characteristic,” explains Diego Baca, Vice President of Design at Microsoft, in a social media publish.

The Microsoft supervisor’s reasoning:

From our analysis, dragging the taskbar to reposition it may possibly result in unintended actions, which is among the causes “Lock the taskbar” existed in earlier variations of Home windows. We additionally discovered that altering the taskbar place isn’t one thing individuals do regularly.

Baca continues:

We felt that offering a discoverable setting, only one right-click away, was a extra intentional and predictable expertise. It’s a deliberate design choice, not a lacking functionality.

So in case you had been hoping that the Home windows 11 taskbar would ultimately get drag-and-drop repositioning, don’t maintain your breath. It’s doable Microsoft might change its thoughts sooner or later—prefer it did with the taskbar being repositionable in any respect—but it surely doesn’t appear probably any time quickly.