Remove copilot icon that appears when I click in Onenote

File - Option (most down)

4th item = Copilot

not check for "Copilot"

restart OneNote

System:

Windows 11 Pro 24H2)

Microsoft Office 365 OneNote

MS has a technology (also built into Office) they internally call "flighting". Flighting means that certain functionality is available in the deployed code, but is not activated by default. Activation can be done by a mutable signal available somewhere in the MS cloud backend. Client software is aware of such available flighting code and periodically calls back asking "does this already apply to me" and depending on the answer it activates or hides the flighting functionality. MS uses this to gradually deploy features they don't want to appear instantly for everyone with the release of a new build. So, a given build may in fact behave differently for different groups of users and it may suddenly change its behavior without receiving an update. But the Copilot control feature is technically in the build and seems to work as expected, so I assume sooner or later it will show up for everyone.

Awful "feature." Get this garbage out of my app.

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.

Please upvote this request:

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/0fae6e48-04d8-ef11-95f5-6045bdb154fdH/T & many thanks to @nicolelanger for capturing this request and letting me dogpile on it.
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