Microsoft Edge Mobile - Policy to turn off Copilot

Question

We have a tenant with thousands of students, and want to deploy Edge as a secondary browser on iOS. We have disabled Copilot in the sidebar when students log into Edge, but we need it disabled before students log in as well. I've looked at the policies here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-mobile-policies but can't find any for disabling copilot in the sidebar. I've tested some of the other policies, and they are applied as expected, so we now that managed configurations work. The policies show up in edge://policies

We're using Jamf to manage our devices and are pushing out a XML <plist> to the devices.

For example, this works to set the homepage:

<plist>
<dict>
  <key>HomepageLocation</key>
  <string>https://schoolname.no</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Is there a policy to turn off Copilot from the sidebar? I've tried the policy that should force log in before use of the browser, but that doesn't seem to work on iOS.

Answer 1

@Håvar Eidslott,Thanks for posting in Q&A.

From your description, I know you are looking for a policy to turn off Copilot on iOS devices.

Based on my research, we can create an app configuration policy to turn off Copilot.

Here are the steps you can refer.

1.Go to Intune portal > Click Apps > Click App configuration policies > Click Add, then select managed devices.

2.In the basics page, select iOS/iPadOS as Platform and Edge as Targeted app > In the Settings page, select Use configuration designer as Configuration settings format > Enter com.microsoft.intune.mam.managedbrowser.Chat under Configuration key and false under Configuration value.

3.Then you can deploy it and it will disable Copilot on Edge.

Hope above information can help you, if there is any update, feel free to let me know.

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Answer 2

@Håvar Eidslott,Thanks for posting in Q&A.

From your description, I know you are looking for a policy to turn off Copilot on iOS devices.

Based on my research, we can create an app configuration policy to turn off Copilot.

For Copilot on edge mobile, here are the steps you can refer.

1.Go to Intune portal > Click Apps > Click App configuration policies > Click Add, then select managed devices.

2.In the basics page, select iOS/iPadOS as Platform and Edge as Targeted app > In the Settings page, select Use configuration designer as Configuration settings format > Enter com.microsoft.intune.mam.managedbrowser.Chat under Configuration key and false under Configuration value.

3.Then you can deploy it and it will disable Copilot on Edge.

For Copilot on macOS, you can follow the link below to disable HubsSidebarEnabled setting to block showing sidebar on Microsoft edge to block Copilot.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#hubssidebarenabled

Hope above information can be helpful, if there is any update, feel free to let me know.

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