How to mute the touch keyboard sound in Windows 11

Windows 11 has a touch keyboard that allows you to tap the screen to type. This is very useful if your device has a touchscreen but no physical keyboard. When you touch the keys on the touch keyboard, you will hear sounds similar to typing on a real keyboard. If you don't like these touch keyboard sounds, you can turn them off using the instructions below.

 

How to mute the touch keyboard sound via Settings

Step 1:

Open Settings , then tap on Time & language on the left side of the interface.

Looking at the interface on the side, we click on the Typing option to proceed with the adjustments.

 

Step 2:

Switching to the new settings interface, we click on the Touch keyboard option to expand the keyboard customization options on the computer.

Step 3:

You will now see the option "Play key sounds as I type" to turn it off when you don't want to hear the touch keyboard sounds while typing.

Turn off touchpad sound using Registry

You can also change sound settings by editing the Windows Registry, but be cautious before doing so.

Turn off touch keyboard sound

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftTabletTip1.7" /v EnableKeyAudioFeedback /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Turn on touch keyboard sound

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftTabletTip1.7" /v EnableKeyAudioFeedback /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

To use these code snippets, we save the code with the .reg extension and double-click the file to apply the changes, or open Registry Editor and navigate to the key whose value we want to change.