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How to turn off Microsoft Teams Copilot

Copilot in a Teams meeting is not a guest. The organiser chooses whether it runs, and switching it off also switches off recording and transcription.

Part of Microsoft's own app Read on 9 November 2026

How it got into your call

Turn it off

  1. The organiser opens the meeting's options and sets Copilot to Off. That also turns off recording and transcription for the meeting.
  2. Or they set it to Only during the meeting, so that nothing is kept afterwards.
  3. A company's Teams admin sets it for everybody in the Teams admin center, in a meeting policy, under Recording & transcription. Off is one of the four choices there.

Stop it in a call that is running

  1. Only the organiser can change it, in the meeting's options.
  2. A guest cannot switch it off. Ask the organiser, or leave the call.

What it keeps

It depends on the organiser's choice. With “During and after the meeting”, a transcript is saved and Copilot can answer from it later. With “Only during the meeting”, Microsoft says the speech-to-text data is not saved after the meeting ends.

In Microsoft's own words

The choice that keeps nothing afterwards
Microsoft“Only during the meeting”learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/copilot-teams-transcription
The choice that keeps a transcript
Microsoft“During and after the meeting”learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/copilot-teams-transcription
The admin setting that makes a transcript compulsory
Microsoft“On with saved transcript required”learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/copilot-teams-transcription

Read on 9 November 2026 from Microsoft's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.

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