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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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-07T18:28:56+00:00

    I don't use it.

    I didn't ask for it.

    I don't want it.

    I want it gone.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-01T18:22:55+00:00

    I don't think they care about our business, all about control and return on investment.

    Copilot is like ISIS - Israeli Secret Intelligence Service, stealing our freedoms and turning the world into Gaza 2.0. First, they invade our emails and then they're knocking on our doors to take away our guns and freedoms.

    Copilot is like a stalker-X, doesn't take a hint and cannot be turned off or deleted.

    I don't want to go back to the CD's (if that's even possible). But they are giving us no choice, can't even turn it off, like the Terminator pursuing Sarah Connor.

    Don't like the Copilot? Well, we have a "coach" right here to help you finish your sentence with his keen red-left-eye and perfect Terminator grammar. Were you able to dismiss him, temporarily? Well, he said, "I'll be back."

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-01T17:50:17+00:00

    How interesting that here CoPilot does NOT pop up, invade, take over as I reply to Linda of Microsoft.

    I join the chorus of really outraged users who are learning CoPilot has been created to impose itself with force on our emailing.

    Like a bad date who keeps pouncing on you even after you've thrown him out of the car or house. Feels like a real violation after paying annual fee seeking a service that actually serves my needs.

    I'm tired of CoPilot hijacking every simple Hotmail I try to write. Not just when I first hit reply but multiple times as I paragraph down. Just now it gobbled up what I was trying to copy-paste.

    INVASIVE! NOT AN IMPROVEMENT! Raises frustration and blood pressure and takes away the joy of writing emails, which remain my daily bread of communications. I want to think and write my own thoughts, not have CoPilot superimposed on me.

    Microsoft Humans:

    PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON US and program a way to cancel this feature, for those who do better without it!

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-01T17:27:39+00:00

    I remember the good old days! In fact, I was using CD's to install programs, right up until they convinced me I had to switch to Windows 10 because 7 was no longer going to be supported. 10 wouldn't let me use the old CD's. They were great! You learn how the program works ONCE and then get to use it forever. (Or so I thought.) It was a useful tool, not a continual source if frustration. But, I was under the impression that there was no way to use CDs to install programs under the current versions of Windows. All of which has me wondering how hard it would be to learn how to use Linux instead.

    Do any of you think there's a remote chance that Microsoft actually cares what we think?

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