How to Clear Copilot Activity for Microsoft Account
- 5 steps
- Needs administrator rights
- Includes a restart or sign-out
Clearing your Copilot activity removes the past chat history, saved questions and AI responses linked to your Microsoft account. Copilot is the AI assistant built into Windows 11. It saves your conversations, which builds up a detailed log of your prompts over time.
Deleting these logs keeps your private data private and clears old clutter from your profile. You do this on the Microsoft account privacy dashboard, in a browser, in a few clicks. The data lives in your account, not on the PC, so it doesn’t matter which device you use.
To clear Copilot activity, sign in at the Microsoft Account Privacy page, expand Browsing and search, find Copilot activity history, and click Clear all Copilot activity history and search history, then confirm with Clear. The deletion is permanent and also removes your search history, so copy anything you need first. No admin rights or restart are needed.
Clear Copilot activity for your Microsoft account
You clear Copilot activity tied to your Microsoft account from the privacy dashboard online. Your chat history and past prompts are stored in your profile, and you can wipe them completely to keep your interactions private and start fresh.
Before you start, make sure you can sign in to the Microsoft account you use with Copilot. If you use more than one account, clear each one separately. The steps are the same on Windows 11 Home and Pro, because everything happens in the browser and not in Windows itself.
- Open your browser, sign in with your Microsoft account and go to the Microsoft Account Privacy page. You should see the privacy dashboard with your account name in the corner. If it shows a different account, sign out and sign in with the one you use for Copilot.
- Find the section labeled Browsing and search and click it to expand more options. The Copilot settings are grouped under this section.
- Find the area called Copilot activity history. If you don’t see it right away, scroll down the page. It sits among the other activity categories.
- Click the link that says Clear all Copilot activity history and search history. A confirmation prompt should appear.
- In the window that pops up, read the message, then click the Clear button to finish. The dashboard should confirm that your activity was cleared. It can take a short while for the change to show everywhere.
If you want to keep something, copy it somewhere safe first. Because the button also clears search history, you will lose that too. Any new Copilot conversations you have afterwards will be logged again, so repeat these steps whenever you want a clean slate.
Summary
Clearing your Copilot activity history regularly protects your privacy. Deleting past AI conversations and searches from your Microsoft account keeps the data stored there to a minimum. It also takes only a minute, so it is easy to make part of a routine privacy check.
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