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
    2025-03-26T18:12:29+00:00

    I haven't actually seen any evidence that they CARE if they lose customers. This isn't the only example of that. (Anyone else noticed how hard it is now to paste something in Outlook?) I'm curious about what's in it for them, because something must be.

    Copilot makes it more difficult to paste something in Outlook! Drives me crazy to have to try several times. I have to type something try to paste and hope it works.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-26T12:41:30+00:00

    I haven't actually seen any evidence that they CARE if they lose customers. This isn't the only example of that. (Anyone else noticed how hard it is now to paste something in Outlook?) I'm curious about what's in it for them, because something must be.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-26T04:00:36+00:00

    This FORCED use of Copilot is making me very angry. I am close to deleting my PAID ($99.99/year) account because Copilot jacks up my emails by trying to "help"

    Give us a way to turn it off or lose customers

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-20T15:39:03+00:00

    It bodes ill for our future when people can't even bother to read their emails but must resort to an AI "helper" for the task. Why bother with humans at all? AI can write the emails, it can read the emails, and understand them well enough to give us summaries. Humans are clearly the irrelevant ones, here.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-04T19:58:06+00:00

    So, you think this is bad. Microsoft 365 is being rebranded Microsoft CoPilot 365. What do you think that means?

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