GoKawiilMicrosoft says IT administrators can now uninstall the AI-powered Copilot digital assistant from enterprise devices using a new policy setting, which has become broadly available after the April 2026 Patch Tuesday.
RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp is available as a Policy CSP and Group Policy after deploying this month's Windows security updates on endpoints managed via Microsoft Intune or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
This policy will only apply to Windows 11 25H2 devices where the Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are both installed, the user did not install the Microsoft Copilot app, and the Microsoft Copilot app was not launched in the last 28 days.
"The new RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp policy setting allows you to uninstall Copilot from devices in your organization in a non-disruptive way," Microsoft said.
"If this policy is enabled, the Microsoft Copilot app will be uninstalled. Users can still re-install if they choose to. This setting applies to Enterprise, Professional and Education client SKUs only," it added.
To enable it, open the Group Policy Editor and go to:
/User/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/WindowsAI/RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp or /Device/Vendor/MSFT/Policy/Config/WindowsAI/RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp
As BleepingComputer previously reported, the RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp policy first rolled out in early January to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta Insider channels who installed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7535 (KB5072046).
Last month, Microsoft also stopped automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices with the Microsoft 365 desktop client apps, but has yet to explain why it paused the rollout.
The company is also reportedly canceling plans to ship several other Copilot-powered features introduced almost two years ago, which would have embedded the Copilot assistant into Windows 11 system notifications, the Settings app, and the File Explorer.
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