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- Copilot Vision is now available on Windows 10 & 11.
- It sees your screen and guides you in real time.
- Privacy is controlled with the opt-in aspect and the ability to control your information.
It’s official: Copilot Vision on Windows with Highlights is now available on Windows 10 and 11 PCs. To use it, you need to be signed into the Microsoft 365 Copilot app; it’s included in Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions as well as Copilot Pro subscribers on iOS and Android.
Look for it in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Edge, and other apps; if you don’t have it, check your subscription and be sure your license is up-to-date.
The name is a mouthful; here’s a quick overview of what it is and how you can get started using it.
- Copilot Vision, when enabled, can see what you see on your screen plus talk to you about it in real time. It has the ability to work within two apps at once to help you make connections.
- Highlights is a ‘show me’ tool. When you ask Copilot Vision to ‘show me how’ for a specific task within Windows, it will show you where to click and what to do to complete the task..
- In addition, Copilot can do things like give you tips while you play games, take look at your photos and offer advice for improving lighting, or even review travel itineraries.
How to Start Using Copilot Vision
To get started with Copilot Vision, follow these steps:
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Open Copilot on your computer.
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Click the glasses icon.
The glasses icon gets you started with Copilot Vision.
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Select the app you want to use. You can also select which browser window you want help in.
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Click Share.
Click Share to start using Copilot Vision in your selected app or browser window.
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When you want to stop sharing, click Stop or ‘X’ in the composer.
Copilot Vision keeps track of everything you do and provides you with a transcript at the end.
Still Wary of Copilot Vision?
Most of us are used to typing information in to a chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. Copilot Vision takes things to the next level by allowing you to converse with it while allowing it to see what you’re working on.
Privacy questions, of course, still abound. Microsoft tries to allay these fears by making the whole thing and opt-in process, and by promising to delete session data after use. Specifically, all images, audio, and context are deleted.
The transcript of the conversation is stored to improve Copilot’s memory. However, if you don’t like that, you can delete the transcript, too.
If you’d like to read it for yourself, here is Microsoft’s Data, Privacy, and Security policy for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
There is also a feature that allows you to control whether or not your data can be used form AI model training.
Watch This to See Copilot Vision in Action
There’s a great little video on YouTube hosted by Mike Tholfsen that walks you through a variety of things Copilot Vision can do. He explores a variety of features that will help you see how Copilot Vision works in real time.
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