How do I TURN OFF the "Summary by Copilot" banner that appears on every single email I receive in outlook?

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Anonymous
2024-06-13T14:54:30+00:00

How do I TURN OFF the "Summary by Copilot banner that appears on every single email I receive in outlook?

I may, maybe once a year when tagged into a super long email thread try to get a summary... but 99.99% of the time I will never want to use this, as such the banner is annoying and consumes lots of valuable space where I could render my email.

How can I turn this off? or hide it by default?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-20T08:31:45+00:00

    I can only hope they see how many people object and remove Copilot.

    It's a waste.

    No.

    They need a Copilot to track your activities and interests. Based on that, they understand better how you think and what you want. Something like profiling. You can disable this in the Outlook app, but you can't do it on web Outlook. There, it has to run and analyze.

    Because of all that, Windows Mail, which was excellent, was discontinued.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-20T05:09:17+00:00

    Very frustrated that I can't remove the summary by copilot option. This may be my incentive to go to gmail.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-18T22:47:54+00:00

    To people following this post I have recently discovered this after doing some more digging thanks to JosephT71 post.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-to-turn-off-copilot-in-microsoft-365-family-and-personal-subscriptions-bc7e530b-152d-4123-8e78-edc06f8b85f1

    While this doesn't specifically address the issue in Outlook it does begin to address the 'CoPilot' issue.

    I myself will try the 'Change your privacy settings to turn off Copilot' option to see if this affects my Outlook experience.

    Looking forward to Microsoft rolling out the rest of these 'Enable Copilot' options (hopefully incl. Outlook though no mention of it)

    Note: When I did this in Word it was here: File > More... > Options > Copilot

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-18T20:01:54+00:00

    Thanks for that great tip.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-17T19:31:04+00:00

    I disabled co-pilot entirely when it first appeared (it was covering quite a bit of data in an Excel spreadsheet), but it's now mysteriously re-appeared in Outlook. And, I'm not part of an organization, an individual user with my individual account. If AI was actually accurate, I might consider using it on rare occasions, but...

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