Removing Copilot from Outlook email

Anonymous
2025-01-20T23:03:14+00:00

UPDATE 28Apr2025: I renewed and changed my subscription to Microsoft Personal Classic and that *seemed* to eliminate Co-Pilot. For how long? Who knows? But at least now its no longer showing up on my emails. Thank you to everyone who shared my frustrations and who offered suggestions.

How do I remove Copilot from my Outlook email (and all other applications for that matter)? I have a 5 year old MacBook Pro. I use Outlook (Hotmail account) and all of a sudden CoPilot has appeared when I start writing or replying to emails. I do NOT want it. I do NOT need it. It is VERY distracting and I want to disable and/or remove it. Any advice would be most appreciated. I tried searching online but could not find a suitable answer. Thank you.

I do not know if I have the New or Legacy Outlook.

Outlook | MacOS | Legacy Outlook for Mac | For business

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-07-19T10:09:35+00:00

    I dount want this garbage! Fix this or take a EWG billon punishment soon Microsoft!

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-07-19T00:22:19+00:00

    YES! It was never an option, however, now it is. Thank you so much for sharing with the rest of us. I guess maybe Microsoft finally got the message! I too was able to disable. <3

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-07-18T17:36:58+00:00

    how is COPILOT removed from Outlook, and all other OFFICE apps. AI should be an optional feature, not bloatware.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-07-15T15:28:36+00:00

    Are you sure that Copilot is on? I personally have removed the software which you can find in installed apps. Unfortunately, while I'm pretty confident now that copilot is not on my computer, the button remains in Outlook. I rightly or wrongly interpret this as a sign of despicably bad Microsoft programming as this should have been removed along with the application, yes?
    I can't recommend Google's Drive. I mean if they are pillaging and plundering your email for marketing purposes as I am under the impression that they do, I can't see their Cloud solution being any better. As you your Proton, they too have a Cloud Drive solution. At least that is protected by Swiss Privacy Lows and GDPR.

    I too am looking at LibreOffice now and considering a move to that, trying to balance the new applications and time required to automate them as much as I have with the Microsoft products... and considering the lack of any positive response from Microsoft to any of our concerns and their insistence of taking away our rights to use our computers and purchased software as we want. Insisting on keeping useless annoying buttons on the screen in front of use and share buttons on applications that we would never share....

    Our computers are not a one solution fits all and user customization is critical. Making us see share buttons or copilot buttons every time we access a Microsoft app if anything turns me off using the app even before I research it.

    At least that is my 2 bits on this subject.

    Bry

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-07-09T17:52:36+00:00

    After years on Hotmail, moving to gmail. I paste lots of documents and cannot do it with the co-pilot embedded. Disgusting. It has pretty much disabled my outgoing mail.

    I'm trying to send MD instructions to a family member from a health portal and cannot do it in your system. Done.

    SafetyCat

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