{"id":598156,"date":"2026-04-10T15:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598156\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:59:09","slug":"microsoft-starts-removing-copilot-buttons-from-windows-11-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598156\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/897865\/microsoft-removing-copilot-buttons-windows-11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">starting to remove<\/a> \u201cunnecessary\u201d Copilot buttons from its Windows 11 apps. In the latest version of the Notepad app for Windows Insiders, Microsoft has removed the Copilot button in favor of a \u201cwriting tools\u201d menu. The Copilot button in the Snipping Tool app also no longer appears when you select an area to capture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The change is part of \u201creducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad,\u201d that Microsoft promised to complete as part of its broader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/897834\/microsoft-windows-11-quality-performance-commitments-changes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plan to fix Windows 11<\/a>. While Copilot buttons are being removed, it looks like the underlying AI features are here to stay, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Copilot button has been removed from Notepad, but the writing tools replacement still uses AI-powered features and looks like the identical menu of options that existed before. I still think these features are largely unnecessary in what\u2019s supposed to be a lightweight text app, but removing the superfluous Copilot branding is a good first step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is starting to remove \u201cunnecessary\u201d Copilot buttons from its Windows 11 apps. In the latest version of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[256,64,63,2577,44,1996,105,7116],"class_list":{"0":"post-598156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-microsoft","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-windows"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}