Fix: Can’t sign into Microsoft Store on Windows 11

When it comes to install new apps on your Windows 11 operating system, you need to use Microsoft Store app. The Store app helps you to install new apps of your choice, as well as to update existing apps. For either of these operations, you must be signed into Microsoft Store with your Microsoft account. In case, if you can’t sign into Microsoft Store on Windows 11, this article will show you how to fix it.

The problem of not being able to sign into Microsoft Store may occur on Windows 11 or 10, suddenly. Usually users do not have any clue to straight away fix this problem. However, you can try out the usual solutions that works in this case. In this guide, we have mentioned these common solutions you can try to fix this problem.

Fix: Can’t sign into Microsoft Store on Windows 11

Add your account to Windows 11

It is always advised that you add to your Microsoft account to Windows 11 for better experience. If you do not add your Microsoft account to Windows 11 and keep working on local account, you need to sign in to different apps independently. And when these sign-in’s doesn’t work, you need to fix such issues. To resolve these kind of problems at once, it is advised that you add your Microsoft account to Windows 11. That will be now called as Microsoft account, instead of local account. You can also guide to switch from local account to Microsoft account.

If you’ve a work or school account based on Azure AD, you can use this guide to add your work or school account to Windows 11.

Verify your Microsoft account

If you have already added your Microsoft account to Windows 11, you still need to verify it. For some of the Microsoft Services, verification of your identity is required. You can follow this video guide to verify your Microsoft account:

Once your account is verified, hopefully this issue must be resolved.

Sign up for Microsoft Store for Business or Microsoft Store for Education

If you can’t sign into Microsoft Store for Business or Microsoft Store for Education, you’ll need an Azure Active Directory (AD) or Office 365 account for your organization, and you’ll need to be the global administrator for your organization.

If your organization is already using Azure AD, you can go ahead and sign up for Microsoft Store for Business or Microsoft Store for Education. If not, you need to follow this Microsoft documentation.

Hope something helps!