Again in Could, Microsoft confirmed that it was engaged on a Copilot tremendous app that might merge the totally different shopper Copilot and productiveness Copilot experiences underneath one app. Till now, Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot have been focused at totally different customers, however starting today those apps are being merged into one.
“We’re updating Copilot to create an easier, extra cohesive expertise for everybody,” a brand new Microsoft Assist doc says. “Relying on the account and machine you utilize, you will note adjustments to the Copilot app together with adjustments to look and performance, equivalent to navigation, characteristic availability, or sign-in expertise.”
The unified Copilot expertise begins its rollout right now, however not everybody will see it immediately. Microsoft says the expertise will land on cell first, with the unified Copilot on Home windows and macOS being an opt-in expertise at first, made accessible over the approaching weeks.
The rollout ought to make it simpler to maneuver between utilizing Copilot as an AI assistant for private issues and utilizing Copilot for productiveness based mostly duties. For most individuals, not a lot will change with the unified app, which is able to merely seem as “Copilot” now. With that stated, Microsoft does say that some options are going away with the unification. These options embody:
- Group Chat
- All group chat threads, messages, and pictures will not carry ahead after August 18, 2026.
- Customers should manually copy or obtain something they need to preserve.
- Podcasts
- The Podcasts characteristic is being totally retired on August 18, 2026.
- Customers will not have the ability to create or entry podcasts in Copilot after this date.
- Particular person podcast recordsdata can nonetheless be downloaded earlier than retirement.
- Deep Analysis
- Deep Analysis is being retired for shopper customers beginning August 18, 2026.
- Present Deep Analysis content material will stay accessible, however the characteristic itself will not be accessible.
For these utilizing Copilot with a piece or college account, Microsoft says the unified Copilot app can be coming to these accounts too. The private and industrial accounts can be separated throughout the app, which means knowledge out of your work or college account will not be shared together with your private account, and vice versa. “Work and private accounts stay separate. Your group’s safety, privateness, compliance, and administrative controls proceed to use once you use Copilot together with your work or college account.”
For these utilizing the non-public shopper Copilot app, you’ll discover an up to date UI that extra equally matches the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Those that use the Microsoft 365 Copilot app possible will not discover a lot of a distinction, exterior of the rebranded app to simply “Copilot,” together with a barely up to date brand.
For these curious, that is the brand new Microsoft Copilot icon and branding. Are you able to inform the distinction? No, us neither.
Lastly, Microsoft has confirmed that every one your Copilot knowledge (apart from the options which can be being taken away) will migrate mechanically to the brand new expertise, which means customers will not must do something to make sure their chats and knowledge are carried ahead. All of that can occur mechanically when the unified app lands in your machine.
The unified Copilot expertise begins its rollout right now, although it is taking place in waves so most customers will not see the adjustments immediately. Worldwide rollout for the cell begins right now, with rollout for Home windows and macOS anticipated to start out in mid September. This is the complete rollout schedule:
- Mid‑August 2026 — Worldwide rollout begins for cell and internet apps; early‑entry decide‑in opens for Home windows and Mac apps; copilot.cloud.microsoft URL accessible in Frontier for testing.
- Late August 2026 — Customary rollout of the URL redirect begins.
- Mid‑September 2026 — Worldwide rollout begins for Home windows and Mac apps.
- Late September 2026 — Deferred rollout of the URL redirect begins for the internet app.
Microsoft’s unification of Copilot is a very long time coming, and one that’s setting the corporate as much as ship a Copilot tremendous app expertise that may do all the things throughout Microsoft’s platforms and providers. It by no means made sense for Microsoft to separate Copilot up between consumer- and productivity-based use circumstances, particularly since customers generally need to do each.
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