Browsers and Mail Enable or Disable Copilot Journeys in Microsoft Edge on Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Copilot Journeys in Microsoft Edge for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Microsoft Edge is the AI-powered browser. A smarter way to browse. As the only browser built and optimized for Windows, it’s AI-powered tools are designed to help you make the most of your time online. Whether you’re searching, shopping or gaming, AI-powered tools and a security-first approach help you stay productive, save money, and get things done your way.

Browsing the web often spans multiple tabs, sessions, and days. Keeping track of tasks can be overwhelming. Copilot Journeys transform your browser into a smart assistant that helps you resume tasks and move forward efficiently. It automatically organizes your browsing data into meaningful groups called Journeys, each with a quick summary and suggested next step. With Journeys, you can continue where you left off without losing track of your progress.

While you browse, Copilot creates a short summary of your page content that captures the essence of what you view. For example, Copilot might summarize a page with a pizza recipe as a "Step-by-step guide to making pizza from scratch, including dough recipes and topping suggestions”.

That summary, along with related page titles, URLs, searches, and Copilot chats, is used to create a task-focused group called a Copilot Journey. Each Journey reflects a task in progress, so you can pick up quickly where you left off without losing context.

Copilot Journeys are constantly replaced with new ones to remain fresh and relevant. Older Journeys and their underlying data are automatically deleted after 14 days.

After you have turned on Journeys, it will work in the background while you browse. After you have some browsing activity, you will see new Journeys appear as cards at the bottom of your Edge new tab page. Up to three Journey cards will appear at a time. Each card displays a quick summary and a suggested next step,

Clicking on a card will open a chat with Microsoft Copilot. There, Copilot will facilitate continuing the same task you were working on before by summarizing information, comparing options, building a plan, and so on.

Copilot Journeys are designed to help you stay organized while keeping your privacy in mind. It only uses the information it needs to build helpful cards for a task. When you enable Journeys, it may access the following:

• Page metadata and content: The page title, URL, and non-sensitive content from sites you visit.
• Dwell time: The length of time you spend on a site. This helps Copilot evaluate which sites may be important to you.
• Copilot chats: When you use Copilot in Edge, your conversations may be used to create more helpful Journeys.
• Navigation context: Copilot will consider how your visited sites connect through their links, search paths, and sequential flow.

To help include only safe and useful information, Copilot Journeys use a multi-layered filtering system to ensure generated cards are privacy-safe:

• Excluded data: When generating summaries, Journeys excludes sensitive sites (for example, banking and healthcare) and personal information (emails, account numbers, IDs, or other information used to sign-in to services), and sensitive topics (medical records or adult content). Any activity when browsing using InPrivate or Guest Mode is also excluded automatically.
• Secure AI processing: Non-sensitive content is sent to Microsoft’s secure services to create short summaries and cards. This data is encrypted and securely stored. It is never used to train AI models or in advertising. Learn more about the types of data that may be used for advertising.

You can control the data collected by Copilot Journeys in the following ways:

• Browsing history: To prevent Journeys from using your browsing history, clear your browsing history in Edge Settings.
• Collected data: To erase everything Copilot Journeys has collected, turn off the Journeys feature in Edge Settings. When Journeys is turned off, Edge stops collecting data right away and deletes any information previously stored to create them.

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EXAMPLE: Copilot Journeys in Edge







Here's How:

1 Open Microsoft Edge.

2 Click/tap on the Settings and more (Alt+F) 3 dots menu icon, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)


3 Click/tap on Copilot and AI in the left pane. (see screenshot below)

If you do not see a left pane, then either click/tap on the 3 bars menu button towards the top left OR widen the horizontal borders of the Microsoft Edge window until you do.

4 Turn On or Off (default) Journeys for what you want.

It is required to turn on Copilot new tab page to have the Journeys setting available.

If you see a Explore Journeys button instead of a On/Off toggle, then click/tap on Explore Journeys, and turn on the Journeys feature.

5 You can now close the Settings tab if you like.




That's it,
Shawn Brink