This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off allowing Copilot to use your past chats to personalize your experience for your Microsoft account on the web, Edge, and Windows 11.
The Microsoft Copilot app is an AI here to give advice, inspiration, and help when you need a hand. You can start a conversation to get clear answers to tough questions, turn ideas into images, or polish your writing until it shines.
Signing into Copilot using your personal Microsoft Account gives you access to your chat history, image creation, longer conversations, voice interactions, and other Copilot features.
Microsoft Copilot keeps your prior conversations with Copilot so you can revisit them or continue them at any time.
Copilot Memory automatically collects key details from your previous chat conversations and remembers it for future conversations.
You can turn off chat history personalization if you don’t want Copilot Memory to use your previous chats to respond to future prompts.
If you turn off the Chat history toggle, inferences that Copilot made from previous chats are deleted after 30 days.
If the Chat history toggle is turned back on within 30 days after the deletion, Copilot adds back the deleted memories from your chat history.
References:
Microsoft Copilot for individuals: your privacy controls and choices | Microsoft Support
Information about privacy controls for Microsoft Copilot for individuals
support.microsoft.com
How Microsoft Copilot Chat history works | Microsoft Support
Learn how to revisit and manage your Microsoft Copilot Chat history to stay organized, track insights, and continue conversations.
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If you turn off Saved memories for Copilot memory personalization, it will also turn off and disable Chat history personalization.
Contents
- Option One: Enable or Disable Copilot Chat History Personalization from Copilot app and web
- Option Two: Enable or Disable Copilot Chat History Personalization from Microsoft Edge
EXAMPLE: Copilot chat history
1 Open the copilot.com site or Copilot app on Windows 11.
2 Sign in to Copilot with your Microsoft account if not already.
3 Open Copilot Chat settings.
4 Click/tap on Personalization on the left side in Chat settings. (see screenshot below)
5 Turn on (default) or off Chat history for what you want.
1 Open Microsoft Edge.
2 Sign in to Microsoft Edge with your Microsoft account if not already.
3 Click/tap on the Copilot Chat icon on the toolbar. (see screenshot below step 4)
4 Click/tap on the Settings and more (3 dots) button, and click/tap on Chat settings. (see screenshot below)
5 Click/tap on Personalization in Chat settings. (see screenshot below)
6 Turn on (default) or off Chat history for what you want. (see screenshot below)
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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