Apps Enable or Disable Personalization in Copilot app in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off personalized responses by Copilot for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Windows is the first PC platform to provide centralized AI assistance to you. Together with Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat), Copilot in Windows helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand. Do more with Copilot in Windows.

Starting with Windows 11 build 22631.3810 and Windows 10 build 19045.4593 (RP and Beta) Microsoft is evolving the Copilot** experience on Windows as an app that will be pinned to the taskbar. This enables users to get the benefits of a traditional app experience, including the ability to resize, move, and snap the window.

With the new Copilot app, you can search and access your Copilot anytime, anywhere. Ask your Copilot anything you want, from trivia questions to creating images. Like a friend, Copilot will give you quick and helpful answers, along with suggestions for what to do next. You can even use voice to search or chat, and your history and preferences will sync across all your devices.

Copilot is designed to enhance your productivity by leveraging the power of AI. To access the full capabilities of Copilot, you are required to sign into the Copilot app using your Microsoft account or Microsoft Entra Account (work or school account).

If you turn on personalization, you are letting Microsoft use your Chat history to make Copilot more personalized for you. Copilot remembers your Chat history and may make inferences from that Chat history about your interests, hobbies, etc., to provide personalized answers. Copilot is designed not to personalize interactions based on some topics to protect your privacy and to prevent the use of potentially sensitive information. For example, Microsoft take steps to exclude context from your past conversations that may be considered sensitive, even if Chat history and Personalization are set to “ON” in your settings. You should use caution in sharing any information you consider to be sensitive with Copilot.

You can control what Chat history is used to personalize your experience. Copilot cannot delete Chat history through a chat request. If you don’t want Copilot to personalize using a particular chat, delete the chat from Chat history. Once deleted, the chat will not be used to personalize the answers.

If you turn off personalization, Microsoft will delete your personalization profile. Microsoft will still keep your Chat history unless you delete Chat history, so you can view your past conversations, but your future Copilot responses will no longer be personalized.

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Here's How:

1 Open the Copilot app.

2 Click/tap on either the Sign in or account profile button at the top right corner. (see screenshot below step 3)

3 Click/tap on Settings to expand it open, and click/tap on Chat. (see screenshot below)


4 Under Chat settings, check (on - default) or uncheck (off) Enable personalization for what you want, and click/tap on Save. (see screenshot below)

Turning off Automatically save chats will disable the Personalization setting.

That's it,
Shawn Brink