How to limit Outlook Email edits from being logged a sepreate conversation on copilot app

The previous in-canvas experience cannot currently be restored selectively: Outlook’s updated Copilot coaching now opens Copilot Chat for email revisions, and Microsoft does not document a setting that keeps email editing enabled while preventing those sessions from appearing in conversation history.^1^

What changed

Microsoft changed Outlook coaching from an in-canvas workflow—where all suggestions were applied together—to a chat-based workflow. Get Coaching now opens the Copilot chat pane, where suggestions can be refined and applied individually to the draft. The update applies to Outlook on Windows, web, Mac, Android, and iOS.^1^

That matches the timing and behavior described; it is not an Outlook conversation-view setting.

Remove the unwanted conversations

For conversations already listed in the Copilot Windows app:

1. Open Copilot and display the conversation-history sidebar.
2. Right-click an email-revision conversation.
3. Select Delete.

On Copilot web, select the three dots beside the conversation and then Delete.^2^

For a work account, the Microsoft privacy dashboard also supports deleting all Copilot activity:

1. Open the privacy dashboard.
2. Go to Privacy → Empower your productivity → Copilot → Your Copilot app activity history → Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps.
3. Select Delete all activity history, review the warning, and select Clear.

This removes all applicable activity rather than only Outlook editing sessions, so export anything needed first.^3^

Turning off Chat history under Copilot personalization is not a selective solution for this issue. That control governs whether Copilot uses previous chats for personalization and deletes related inferences after 30 days; Microsoft does not state that it prevents Outlook editing sessions from being created or displayed.^4^

Available workarounds

• Keep Copilot editing: Delete the generated conversations periodically. No Outlook-only history exclusion is documented.
• Avoid creating Copilot editing conversations: Stop using Get Coaching/Edit with Copilot and revise the draft manually.
• Disable Copilot in Outlook entirely: In new Outlook, open Settings → Copilot → Copilot control, then turn off Turn on Copilot. This hides Copilot entry points and applies per account, but also removes the Outlook Copilot features you currently use.^5^

Request the former behavior

Because this is a product-behavior change rather than a documented configurable option:

1. In new Outlook, select Help → Give Feedback.
2. State that Outlook email revisions should either remain outside Copilot Chat history or have a “Don’t save email-edit sessions” setting.
3. Include the approximate date the behavior changed, Outlook version, Windows version, and a screenshot with confidential email content removed.

Microsoft specifically directs new Outlook feature requests through Help → Give Feedback.^6^

References

1. Microsoft 365 Copilot release notes
2. Conversation history in Microsoft Copilot | Microsoft Support
3. Manage your Copilot activity history in the privacy dashboard | Microsoft Support
4. How Microsoft Copilot Chat history works | Microsoft Support
5. Copilot Toggle | Microsoft Support
6. Feature comparison between new Outlook and classic Outlook | Microsoft Support