Joe Fedewa / How-To Geek
On Windows, you will need to use the Registry Editor to remove Bing Chat from Edge. On macOS, you must run a command in the Terminal.
As promised, Microsoft added the new Bing AI Chat to Edge. The Bing icon lives in the top right corner of the Edge browser window, and Microsoft has made it annoyingly difficult to disable. We’ll show you how to turn it off.
The Bing AI Chat button was added to Microsoft Edge 111. The update includes the new “Discover” sidebar as well, which Microsoft also refers to as “Edge Copilot.” The sidebar can easily be turned off, but the Bing Chat button is harder to get rid of. If that wasn’t annoying enough, it opens even if you just hover your mouse cursor over it.
However, the most egregious thing about the Bing Chat button is there’s no way to turn it off in the Edge settings. You’re simply stuck with it—unless you make a registry edit on Windows. That’s how we’ll remove it. (On a Mac or Linux system, you’ll have to run a command…
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