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 interaction history when you're signed in with your personal Microsoft account, see Clear your Microsoft Copilot activity history from the privacy dashboard.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is an AI-powered digital assistant designed to help you with a range of tasks and activities in your apps.
Copilot interaction history is the record of the prompts and responses that you have with Copilot for Microsoft 365. Examples of Copilot interactions 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 Copilot for Microsoft 365 interaction history
To delete your Copilot for Microsoft 365 interaction 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 interaction 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 Copilot for Microsoft 365 interaction history
When you select Delete, a deletion request is sent to Microsoft. It might take some time before your Copilot for Microsoft 365 interaction history is fully deleted.
If an app is open when you select Delete, you might continue to see your previous interaction history until you close the app. The next time you reopen that app and start using Copilot again, your interaction history will be cleared. That means you’re starting over again with Copilot. Copilot doesn’t show any previous interactions 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 interaction history
The following Microsoft 365 apps store Copilot interaction 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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PowerPoint
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Teams
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Whiteboard
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Word
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Microsoft Copilot with Graph-ground chat (previously named Microsoft 365 Chat)
When you select Copilot for Microsoft 365, your Copilot interaction history will be deleted from all these apps. This selection doesn’t allow you to delete interaction history from just some apps, such as just Word and PowerPoint.
