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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?
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Read the link I posted.
They are raising the prices of your current plan and include copilot (along with the price increase).
You have to get back to the lower priced plan which doesn't have copilot.
I have this same problem, Suddenly a notification above my email I'm trying to process. Summary? I'm retired, I don't get lengthy emails and if I do I unsubscribe immediately. Very distracting! I have ADHD and absolutely NEED a very streamlined interface! Please think of your users and don't assume one size fits all. This should NOT have been implemented without a quick fix to remove it! Also, I have a simple, Personal Account. I am not an organization.
B. Tew
You CANNOT turn it off.
You can DOWNGRADE to a lower priced microsoft 365 plan that doesn't come with copilot.
SOLVED!!
In the Outlook app:
- Click the settings gear in the top right of the Outlook window.
- On the left, click on "General".
- In the middle, click on "Privacy and data".
- On the right, scroll all the way to the bottom and click on "Privacy settings".
- Scroll down to "Connected experiences" and turn off "Turn on experiences that analyze your content".
The Summary by Copilot will not appear on your emails anymore.
Unfortunately, the "Privacy settings" section doesn't appear in the browser version so I don't know how to turn it off there. However, I did find this setting duplicated at https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/data-settings but it doesn't seem to work in the browser version.
Unfortunately, if you do that, you also give up a whole list of features (including Editor): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-apps/privacy/connected-experiences#connected-experiences-that-analyze-your-content
Here to say the same thing... logged on this morning to face the same unwanted nonsense.
Provide an option to turn it off - it's completely unnecessary to force this on every single email for all users. Overwhelming majority of us don't need it, and the rest of us don't need it on every single email.