Notes:
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The information in this article only applies to when you’re signed in with your work or school account.
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For information about deleting your Microsoft Copilot activity history when you're signed in with your personal Microsoft account, see Clear your Microsoft Copilot activity history from the privacy dashboard.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI-powered digital assistant designed to help you with a range of tasks and activities in your apps.
Copilot activity history is the record of the prompts and responses that you have with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Examples of Copilot activities include asking Copilot to help you rewrite a paragraph in a Word document or asking Copilot to generate a to-do list from your notes in OneNote.
For more information about using Copilot, see Copilot Lab.
How to delete your Microsoft 365 Copilot activity history
To delete your Microsoft 365 Copilot activity history:
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Sign in to the My Account portal with your work or school account.
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Go to Settings & Privacy > Privacy > Data options and open the Copilot activity history section.
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Select Delete history.
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Select the Copilot for Microsoft 365 checkbox.
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Select Delete to send your deletion request to Microsoft.
What happens when you delete your Microsoft 365 Copilot activity history
When you select Delete, a deletion request is sent to Microsoft. It might take some time before your Microsoft 365 Copilot activity history is fully deleted.
If an app is open when you select Delete, you might continue to see your previous activity history until you close the app. The next time you reopen that app and start using Copilot again, your activity history will be cleared. That means you’re starting over again with Copilot. Copilot doesn’t show any previous activities you had with it.
Any content that Copilot helped you with, and that you’ve saved in your file, won’t be removed when you select Delete. For example, if Copilot helped you with changes to your PowerPoint slides and you’ve saved those changes, those changes won’t be deleted.
Microsoft 365 apps with Copilot activity history
The following Microsoft 365 apps store Copilot activity history:
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Excel
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Forms
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Loop
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OneNote
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Outlook
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Planner
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PowerPoint
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Teams
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Whiteboard
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Word
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Business Chat
When you select Copilot for Microsoft 365, your Copilot activity history will be deleted from all these apps. This selection doesn’t allow you to delete activity history from just some apps, such as just Word and PowerPoint.
