Move and Dock the Flow Bar on Desktop
Available on: Mac
The Flow Bar is the small floating bubble that shows your dictation status — resting, recording, or processing — and holds your meetings drawer and language picker. It's hidden by default on new installs; turn it on in Settings.
How the Flow Bar behaves
Visibility: Show the Flow Bar at all times, or hide it for 1 hour.
Context menu: Right-click the Flow Bar for microphone selection, language selection, Paste Last Transcript, mute typing reminder, and dictation-reminder configuration.
Screen share visibility: The Notepad and Flow Bar appear in screen shares and screenshots by default; turn on Hide from screen shares and screenshots in Settings to keep them out.
Click-through: Stop/confirm buttons, the language and mic menu, and status notifications respond to clicks; transparent or empty areas pass clicks to the app underneath. Hiding or snoozing the bar restores full click-through.
Window performance: Windows the Flow Bar overlaps keep running at full speed.
FAQs
How do I switch languages from the Flow Bar?
Right-click the Flow Bar and choose a language, or go to Settings → General → Language. Over 100 languages are supported; some regional variants are mutually exclusive (e.g. English, English (UK), English (Canada); Chinese and Chinese (Simplified)).
Does this work on iOS or Android?
No. iOS uses the Flow Keyboard and Android uses the Flow Bubble instead.
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