Steam: How to disable the What's New popup on startup

  1. How to turn off What's New on Steam

Regardless of whether you use it Steam for some time or recently, you will surely have noticed that when the client starts, a popup relating to the news on the platform appears. If you want to avoid closing it manually every time, if you find it annoying and not of your interest, today we will reveal how to disable it.

How to turn off What's New on Steam



The procedure is quite simple and fast, you can activate or deactivate the News at any time as follows:

  1. Click on Steam
  2. Click on Settings
  3. Click on Interface
  4. Click on the item I want to be notified of news or changes to my games, new releases or others coming soon

This way to the next restart of Steam you will no longer have the popup in front of you, all you have to do is uncheck the item indicated and that's it. Although for some the News are interesting to know what new titles have been added, any discounts, updates and various news, for others it could be a decidedly annoying popup, considering that it is opened in a dedicated window.


In this regard, we take this opportunity to bring you back to follow how to disable chat on steam on startup, in case you want a clean opening of the client:



  1. Click on the gear icon you find in Friends and Chat
  2. Click on Friends list
  3. Click on DO NOT at the entry Connect to the Friends network when starting the Steam client

Like this when you throw Steam you will find yourself directly in the main screen, without the window relating to Cat.


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