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
    2025-01-30T14:27:18+00:00

    I'm going to second pretty much everything everyone else said. Time to find a new email program, and probably a new operating system, as big a PIA as that is going to be.

    Also, I'm kind of wonder if the "Microsoft representative" that replied to Maria Jo's original question isn't an AI. The reply is a little too smarmy to be convincingly human. If it's a person, the "I know how you feel" stuff was utterly unconvincing. Actually, it was kind of infuriating. Definitely not the way a business ought to be run!

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-29T14:34:30+00:00

    I'm ready to go to another operating system!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-30T20:55:34+00:00

    Dear Microsoft.

    I simply CANNOT believe that you added a really stupid and completely unneeded function to your Microsoft 365 that YOU CAN"T GET RID OFF??? You wrote the bloody pilot program. Your infuriating pilot pop-up has completely blocked access to my email account. And I am simply not stupid enough to click on "got it' on the popup; you'll probably take that as consent to run my outlook account. I WISH I had time (or access) to change all of my outlook to Gmail. I'm not crazy about Gmail, but I am getting far less crazy about outlook by the minute. I notice that I am FAR from the only person here who feels this way. Nothing like sending your customers screaming to another platform.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-30T01:22:32+00:00

    I am also changing my mail. It blocks me from even starting an email message on my own.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-30T17:04:04+00:00

    Agreed! It needs to be done away with at best, and removable by an individual at the very least.

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