How to turn off Copilot

In Windows 11, in Word and Office, and in Microsoft Edge.

Where it shows up

The situation

Copilot is several products sharing one name. The taskbar button, the Office ribbon entry and the Edge sidebar are separate features with separate controls, and a Windows update has more than once put one of them back after it was removed.

You went looking for the setting and either it wasn't where you expected, or it was and it didn't stick. That's the pattern across all of this — and it's why we test each one on a real device rather than repeating what a listicle said in March.

The steps go out in the email

We work each of these out properly — on a real phone, a real laptop — and send the step-by-step to the list. One email a month, covering what changed and exactly how to switch it off.

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Questions people ask

Can you remove Copilot from Windows 11?

The taskbar button, the Office ribbon entry and the Edge sidebar are separate features with separate settings. Removing one does not remove the others, and Windows updates have been known to restore them.

Does turning off Copilot in Word turn it off everywhere?

No. Word, Edge and the Windows taskbar each carry their own Copilot control.

The one we've already tested

Google's AI Overviews — the summary above your search results — is the most-searched of the lot, and we've published the working method for it: how to turn off AI on Google →. Verified in a real browser, with the date on it.

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