Using Copilot Vision with Microsoft Copilot

How Copilot Vision handles your data 

Copilot Vision is only active when you initiate a Vision session. It handles your data in accordance with Microsoft’s Privacy Statement.   

When using Vision, only Copilot’s responses are logged to enable monitoring of unsafe interactions and outputs. User inputs, images, and page content are not logged or stored.  Once the Voice session ends, this data is deleted.   

Vision does not engage directly with your PC, the web, or your phone on your behalf—it’s there to answer questions rather than take actions. Copilot Vision may highlight portions of the screen to help you find relevant information. It will not click, enter text, or scroll on your behalf. 

The first time you use Vision in Windows, MacOS, Edge, and Copilot Mobile, Copilot will ask you to acknowledge a privacy notice.   

Vision is not available to commercial users signed into Copilot or Edge with an Entra ID account. 

Using Copilot Vision on Windows 

Copilot Vision lets you share selected browser windows or apps with Copilot during an active session. Copilot can answer questions about what you choose to share and provide step‑by‑step guidance.

While a Vision session is active, Copilot can answer questions about the app or browser windows you've shared during the active session, even if they're no longer open in front of you. When the Vision session ends, Copilot immediately stops observing, and all shared context is cleared.

Copilot Vision works with any app on Windows. However, if the content includes harmful or DRM-protected material, Copilot will not be able to analyze it. 

Here’s how to use it: 

• Initiate a Copilot Vision session in the Copilot app by clicking the glasses icon  in the composer.

• Select which screen or app you want to share with Copilot. While Copilot Vision is active, you will see an glowing orange outline around the shared screen or app.
  
  Note: You can only select two apps at a time.

• Vision launches with Start with text enabled by default. Vision status and controls appear inside the docked Copilot panel. You can have a text conversation with Copilot and ask questions about what you see in the shared app.

• If you change the toggle to Start with voice, a floating toolbar displays Vision and Voice controls. You will hear Copilot play an audio greeting. You can then have a voice conversation with Copilot and ask questions about what you see in the shared app.

• You can mute yourself by clicking the microphone icon, which disables the microphone and stops Copilot from listening. Click the microphone icon again to resume.

• If you ask Copilot Vision for help on how to use a specific app, it may show a highlighting cursor  on the screen to point something out. Vision will not take actions on your PC for you, but it can explain and show what you should do next.

• Once you are ready to end the Copilot Vision session, click Stop in the floating toolbar. When the session ends, Copilot immediately stops observing.

Using Copilot Vision in Edge 

Copilot Vision works with most sites, except those containing harmful or adult content.  When you visit a site that Copilot Vision does not support, the Copilot Composer at the bottom of the screen will show a grayed-out icon and crossed eyeglasses, and the model will refuse to discuss the content of the page. 

Here’s how to use it: 

• Sign in to Edge using your personal Microsoft Account. Learn how to sign in and create multiple profiles in Microsoft Edge if you have not done this before.

• Navigate in Edge to a website, video or PDF document you want to ask questions about.

• Press the Copilot icon  in the upper right corner of Edge to open Copilot in the Edge sidebar.

• Press the Voice button to ask a question.
  
  ​​​​​​​Note: While a Vision session is ongoing, your will see a floating toolbar with a glasses icon  indicating that you are in an active Vision session. Copilot Vision will remain on while you browse different pages until you end the Vision session.

• Copilot Vision will look at the page and then let you have a natural conversation with Copilot about the content.

• You can end a Vision session by closing the floating Copilot toolbar or by closing the Edge window.

Using Copilot Vision on Mobile 

You can access Copilot Vision in the Copilot mobile app on both iOS and Android devices.   

Copilot Vision answers questions based on what it sees through your mobile device camera.

Here’s how to use it: 

• In the Copilot mobile app, tap the glasses icon to begin a Copilot Vision session.  This will initiate your mobile device camera.
  
  ​​​​​​​Note: You first need to give the Copilot app permission to access your device camera to use this feature.

• Talk to Copilot and ask questions about what you see through the camera or on your screen. Copilot Vision will remain on until you end the Vision session.

• To end the Copilot Vision session, tap the X icon.