Note: To learn about the terms like ‘prompt', ‘responses', ‘recent conversation history', ‘grounding', ‘page information', ‘page context' and so on used throughout this article, please refer to the glossary of terms on this page.
Microsoft Edge is your AI-powered browser. With Microsoft Copilot in Edge, you can get answers to your questions without leaving your open tab or window. Ask Copilot to help you make decisions and research projects. Learn more about using Copilot in the Edge sidebar here.
When you submit a prompt to Copilot in Edge, we may use multiple sources of information to help answer in a way that is relevant and helpful to you. These may include the query, recent conversation history, and page context.
Your admins have flexibility in controlling how their organization leverages Copilot in Edge.
Copilot for commercial use and enterprise data protection
In most cases, you should be automatically signed into Microsoft Copilot in the sidebar with your Entra ID account after signing into Edge with your work profile. For more information about Entra IDs and signing into a work profile, see What's the difference between a Microsoft account and a work or school account?
When you sign into Copilot with an Entra account, you receive enterprise data protection (EDP). This version of Copilot provides heightened security protections for sensitive organizational data.
How Copilot answers your prompts
More information on how Copilot answers your questions can be found here.
Data and consent used by Copilot in Edge sidebar
If your organization has turned on Copilot, you may be given a consent dialog to allow Copilot to access page content. In some cases, your admin might have explicitly enabled or disabled Copilot's access to page content in which case you will not see a consent dialog.
Copilot Chat features in Edge
Summarization
In the Copilot Chat Edge sidebar, users can ask Copilot Chat questions like "Can you summarize this page" to get an easy-to-understand summary of their opened page. You can also ask Copilot Chat more specific questions about your open page such as "Who is quoted on this page?"Â
Writing (Coming soon)
When users are writing or editing text in the browser, they can receive writing support by right clicking the editable text area on the page.Â
Delete your writing history
1. Open Copilot Chat in Edge using the icon in the upper right hand of the toolbar
2. Click the vertical three dot menu next to the "X" close icon
3. Select the Privacy menu item, bringing you to this link
4. Open Copilot activity history
5. Select Delete history
6. Select the product you are deleting data ofÂ
7. Select Delete
How Data Loss Prevention is enforced with Copilot in Edge
Edge for Business comes with native capabilities for enforcing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. This way, your organization's approach to preventing unauthorized data disclosure automatically extends to Copilot in Edge. When your organization protects a page with DLP, and you attempt to summarize or access page content through Copilot in Edge, you will see a response explaining that your organization will not allow Copilot to access the page.
When using Copilot in Edge with DLP policies, access to protected web pages and PDFs is restricted. As a result, you will not be able to copy or paste content on protected sites. You will also not be able to summarize protected content using Copilot in Edge on protected sites, and your organization can block Copilot from receiving sensitive files through the file upload feature in Copilot in Edge. Learn more about what can be summarized in Copilot in Edge, including sites protected by DLP policies.
Information use and storage
More information on how Copilot leverages and stores data can be found here.
Our commitment to responsible AI
Microsoft has numerous protective measures in place that are constantly evolving. For details, please refer to Empowering responsible AI practices.
Glossary of terms
Query: A question a user types in Copilot .
Bing index page: Any website URL that is publicly available on the internet for Bing to scrape and can be reached via an http:// or https:// URL. 
Non-Bing index page: Any webpage or local file that is not available publicly for Bing to scrape but is open on Microsoft Edge. 
Grounding: Centering the response provided to a user's query or prompt on high-ranking content from the web, and providing links to websites where users can learn more. Bing ranks web search content by heavily weighting features such as relevance, quality and credibility, and freshness. 
Response: The text Copilot outputs in response to a prompt. Synonyms for "response" include "completion," "generation," and "answer."
Page context: Comprised of the page URL, page content, or documents that are open in the active tab of the Microsoft Edge browser. These could be webpages, local PDFs, Word documents, or other local files. For example, when you ask Copilot to Summarize this page while browsing a long topic or webpage. Copilot uses the page context (such as the page URL) and the page content to summarize the topic for you.
Page information: Includes the web page content or the content of the document you have open in the active tab of the Microsoft Edge browser.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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No, prompts and responses aren't used to train foundation models under enterprise data protection.
Copilot answers complex questions by distilling information from multiple web sources into a single response. Copilot provides linked citations to these answers so you can further explore and research as they would with traditional search.
Microsoft Copilot has many of the same features as before plus a few new ones. Some previous features are not immediately available, and a few are no longer available.
New features available in Copilot:
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Previous chats: Lets you access previous Copilot chats for reference or to continue the chat.
Features not immediately available (coming soon):
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Image upload: Lets you take photos, or upload or copy and paste images into Copilot to use in a prompt.
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Data analysis: Copilot uses the Python programming language to help you perform complex data analysis such as coding, visualization, and math.
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Voice input and Read aloud: Lets you interact with Copilot by using the microphone or by listening to Copilot's responses.
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Rich web answers: Interactive response cards about current web-based data such as weather or stock prices.
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Export: Lets you export and save your chat conversation into a Word, PDF, or text document.
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Contextual prompt suggestions: References open pages within Microsoft Edge as part of the prompt to help you create relevant prompts within Copilot.
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Page summarization: Lets you summarize an open webpage or PDF in Edge.
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Rewrite: Lets you edit typed text for tone, format, and length within an open page in Microsoft Edge.
Features that will no longer be available:
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Tone selector: Let you select one of a few preset tones for Copilot's response. Without tone selector, if you want Copilot to respond in a specific tone, you can specify the tone as part of your prompt.
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Notebook: Let you iterate and refine your prompts in multiple turns. You can now iterate and refine your prompts over multiple turns in the chat box.
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Compose in the Microsoft Edge sidebar: Provided a template for you to draft content in different tones, formats, and lengths. Without this feature, you can edit text using Rewrite in Microsoft Edge.
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Copilot button in the Microsoft Edge mobile app: The dedicated Copilot button in the Microsoft Edge mobile app. We recommend that anyone with Microsoft Entra accounts use the mobile version of the Microsoft 365 app to access Copilot for work or school.
Copilot can analyze the content of files you upload into the chat box. This means Copilot can provide new insights when working with PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, photos, and more. To upload a file, select the paperclip icon in the corner of the chat box or drag and drop a file into the chat box. After uploading, the content of the file is treated as if you had copied and pasted it directly into the chat. Uploaded file content can then be used for many various tasks, including:
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summarizing a long Word document,
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extracting specific types of information from a PDF,
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or translating the content of a PowerPoint presentation.
Per enterprise data protection promises, the uploaded file and its contents aren't saved nor used to train the model.
If you are not using Microsoft Edge stable 128.0.2739.54+, you may see these features. We recommend updating Microsoft Edge to the latest version to remove these features as they are not compliant with enterprise data protection.
