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
    2025-01-17T01:27:25+00:00

    SOLVED!!

    In the Outlook app:

    1. Click the settings gear in the top right of the Outlook window.
    2. On the left, click on "General".
    3. In the middle, click on "Privacy and data".
    4. On the right, scroll all the way to the bottom and click on "Privacy settings".
    5. 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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T18:39:52+00:00

    The Copilot summary banner just started appearing in my emails today--very distracting, and very unwanted! I'd love to get rid of this!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-02T00:04:23+00:00

    Yep Same. On my phone emails and computer... Another decision that was not ours to choose..

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-16T19:04:13+00:00

    Logged into Outlook today to find Copilot Summary turning up on every email. Spent 3 hours so far trying to figure out how to disable it. Please provide an option to remove it from the header of my emails? I do not want this feature and it makes me hate using Outlook.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-19T21:08:52+00:00

    It's not only Outlook. Every time I open a PowerPoint presentation, there it is the banner to suggest a summary. There is no option to turn off this annoyance. So this is intended. Microsoft is just continuously advertising Copilot on their products.

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