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
    2025-01-18T15:49:40+00:00

    Microsoft are repeating the same errors they have made in the past, since the days of the much-hated paperclip in Microsoft Office ("It looks like you are typing a letter...") - namely dreaming up useless new features and foisting them on their customers without asking if they want them, and without giving them the option to disable these intrusive features. And to cap it all, at the end of these useless Copilot summaries it concedes "AI-generated content may be incorrect"!

    Microsoft needs to provide a Disable Copilot Summary option in Outlook.com settings, and quickly please.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-18T16:26:42+00:00

    I hate this banner. Please turn it off. It is taking up valuable visual real estate on my small laptop screen.

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  3. JosephT71 9,220 Reputation points
    2025-01-18T17:35:48+00:00

    Microsoft is raising prices for your current Microsoft 365 plan and include copilot as part of the price increase.

    You have to downgrade to a lower plan which doesn't include copilot.

    https://www.pcworld.com/article/2581179/microsoft-follows-google-with-price-bump-forced-ai-365-bundles.html

    Microsoft's FAQ

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/switching-to-microsoft-365-personal-and-family-classic-plans-58342e83-38e7-4cda-b63b-88604a8fb7ef

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

    Thanks for that great tip.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-18T22:47:54+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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