Remove System Tray icon

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A System tray icon for the Asana Desktop app was recently added for the Windows notification area, but it doesn’t do anything useful. I’d like the ability to hide it permanently.

Hiding it with Windows settings isn’t sufficient because I need to keep that setting to always show all icons in the notification area.

Asana System Tray

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Thanks for sharing your feedback with us, @Bradley_Odhner! You can currently hide Windows 10 System Tray icons following these steps:

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Click Personalization.
  3. Click Taskbar.
  4. Click Select which icons appear on the taskbar.
  5. Click toggles to On for icons you want to show, and Off for icons you want to hide, for example, Asana.

I hope this helps!

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I recently installed the Desktop app in the hope that I would get a system tray icon to notify me of new relevant activity (like Slack, for example). However, I was surprised to find that there isn’t such a notification, so I agree with the OP here that the system tray is currently not doing anything useful.

Are there plans to incorporate a notification mechanism to the system tray icon?

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The problem with this is that it doesn’t actually REMOVE the system tray icon. It just hides it. So when I close the application, it remains running. There is nothing more frustrating than closing to free up processing power/ram when doing something intensive only to have the application NOT have closed. I have to close it twice.

There really, really, really needs to be a way to either a) turn off the tray icon entirely (it does not exist every) or b) turn off the “close to system tray” feature (when I close the app, it actually closes, doesn’t just minimize to system tray).

I understand that this feature may be a stepping board to other features, but there has to be another way to implement them than having an application continue running when you close the application. It’s like there being a difference between turning off your computer, hibernating your computer, putting your computer to sleep - each does something different, but turning off a computer should TURN off the computer :slight_smile: Thank you!

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