# Ability to hide info panel when paused
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/ability-to-hide-info-panel-when-paused/45529
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [October 28, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ability-to-hide-info-panel-when-paused/45529 "2013-10-28T15:20:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@ConcreteLlama](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ConcreteLlama)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ability-to-hide-info-panel-when-paused/45529/1 "2013-10-28T15:20:01Z")
This is a tiny, tiny request, but basically if a video is paused, it is impossible (at least on the default skin) to minimise the info panel, as far as I can tell.
There is really only one reason that I want this - so I can read the Chuck Lorre text at the end of episodes of The Big Bang Theory, but I'm sure other people have found it frustrating if they want to pause on a particular point only to find the bottom 25% of the screen is obscured.
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2021, 11:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ability-to-hide-info-panel-when-paused/45529/2 "2021-07-26T23:41:10Z")
2021 clean-up: duplicate
> [@Feature Request: Ability to Hide Pause Bar](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-ability-to-hide-pause-bar/42207):
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> Several reasons for this one: (I know there's another feature request to hide progress bar when paused) 1) Pausing to read subtitles, difficult when the pause bar covers up the subtitles. There has been a suggestion to move the subtitles, but I don't believe that works when subtitles are VOBSUB based. 2) Viewing details in the video on the lower portion of the screen. 3) Vanity cards. 4) There's at least 6 threads for this in the general forums, so I thought I'd add it to the req…