Remove copilot icon that appears when I click in Onenote

I agree, this is the most unnecessary and annoying thing they could have done. Also the copilot that comes with the personal 365 is useless. Can't properly summarize notes, can't make overview guides, can't make diagrams. Like if it could just make a flowchart i'd keep it but its not a useful in app ai.

Wouldn't you think this would solve the problem. This does NOT solve the problem with the copilot icon appearing in OneNote.

After uninstalling Copilot as an app days ago, and it finally stopped reinstalling itself (even after a number of reboots), I still can't get the extremely unusual and annoying icon to stop appearing in OneNote. I have Windows 11 Home (Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.36.0) with Microsoft 365 Personal. Please help with other options. I do NOT want ANY aspect of Copilot on my laptop, in any app... I never want to see Copilot again. Thank you.

It is becoming clear that Microsoft's future business model is coercion. Microsoft will have its Big Brother, uh excuse me Copilot, sitting over your shoulder no matter what you do. You WILL save documents to OneDrive whether you like it or not, and MS WILL back up your entire file system to OneDrive and charge you for that service (now or eventually). No matter what options you select, you WILL see Microsoft's "News" in Edge and on Bing. There are no options for any of this. MS is not enticing you by offering features you might want; no, MS is building this stuff in to the tools you already use, and you had better like it.

After decades of being on Microsoft's platforms due to the nature of my career, I am seriously looking for alternatives for my next machine's OS. And no, don't look to Apple; I hear Apple is worse, and MS is just copying Apple, as usual.

I've been searching for the same answer and so far, no luck; even when I supposedly remove the program. The worst part is that when you double click on the + symbol in front of a new list to "expand" the list, the copilot icon pops up quickly, and when you double-click in the exact same spot to "minimize" the list, it opens the copilot dialog box INSTEAD of minimizing my list. Which then means that I have to click somewhere else on the page, then go back to minimize my list.

Microsoft, making a perfectly functioning program LESS functional and more difficult to use by adding something YOU think I will like without giving me the option to turn it off is extremely frustrating. At a minimum, please move the pop-up icon far enough away from my cursor so that I can learn to ignore it instead of having it stick its toe into my business every 15 seconds.