How to remove Copilot from your Teams chat list

Copilot now sits at the top of your Teams chat list, above the people you actually talk to. If you don’t use it, it pushes your real conversations down and is easy to click by mistake.

Where it shows up

• The chat list: a pinned Copilot entry at the top of your chats.
• The app bar: a Copilot app on the left side of Teams.
• Pop-ups: a “Pin Copilot” prompt that some people see again and again.

Can you turn it off in Teams?

Partly, and how much depends on your organisation.

What you can try yourself. Microsoft’s admin documentation says that if you unpin Copilot Chat, Teams respects that choice in future sessions. Whether you’re allowed to unpin it depends on your organisation’s app setup policy. The same page also says that, since January 2026, Copilot Chat can’t be unpinned from the navigation in any organisation. So what you can do may differ from what you read elsewhere.

What your admin can do. Pinning in Teams is controlled only from the Teams admin center:

1. Go to the Teams admin center and open the app setup policy assigned to you.
2. Remove Copilot from the policy’s Pinned apps, or block the Microsoft 365 Copilot app under Manage apps.
3. Changes can take up to 48 hours to reach users.

What this doesn’t fix

• Blocking the app removes Copilot for everyone in that policy, not just people who don’t want it.
• We found no “never show again” option for the “Pin Copilot” prompt.
• Microsoft planned to remove the Copilot entry from the chat list in October 2026, then cancelled the change, so the entry is staying for now.

Hide Copilot in Teams on the web

DeclutterMe removes the pinned Copilot chat from the top of your Teams chats. With Hide Copilot buttons also on, it removes the Copilot buttons in Teams too. It only changes what you see in your own browser, so your colleagues and your admin’s settings are untouched. Switch it back on any time from the extension.