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
    2025-03-19T17:36:20+00:00

    I have found an interim solution.

    I have installed uBlock Origin on Firefox. Using the Element Zapper, I have hidden the buttons and inline prompts. The button on the top right is gone completely, and the button within the writing box is invisible and its hitbox reduced significantly.

    However, I still await an option to permanently disable the collection of my data for AI and the installation of programs without my prior informed consent. Among other changes...

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-19T14:13:38+00:00

    Because they're smart enough to have found a way around it. It seems to be a losing battle. They could at least have the decency to let you hide the obnoxious thing instead of having it insist on being right where you're typing.

    There's no reason they can't make changes to this thing to have some happier customers. They could much better spend their time restoring all the lost access to USB ports which absolutely vanished. Not a single thing has been done to restore them. They make the mess then only go so far as to tell people to look online to find a way to restore them. Balderdash!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-13T18:33:44+00:00

    Copilot is spyware. why isn't my AV quarantining it?!?!?!

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-11T16:55:50+00:00

    I switched to Thunderbird. I actually like it better anyway. Only drawback is junk mail is not filtering (if at all) as well as Outlook did it. But I can live with that. :-)

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-11T16:45:37+00:00

    This co-pilot is maddening, and I think after 20 plus years I am going to find a different e-mail and I can't stand this

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