Since the update of the Tuesday patch in March 2025, Copilot has disappeared from certain PCs under Windows 10 and 11. However, it is not a change in Microsoft policy, but simply a very glorious bug.
It is a funny surprise that some PC users had under Windows 11. After installing the Tuesday patch in March 2025, published on Tuesday 12, they realized that Copilot had disappeared from the taskbar. And it is not simply the shortcut icon: Microsoft’s AI assistant has been deleted. Impossible to throw it, even by going through the start menu or the search bar! A disappearance all the more curious when you know that Microsoft seeks to put its AI absolutely everywhere now, in its applications as in its operating system.
In fact, as noted by our colleagues from Windows Latestthis is not a change in the publisher’s policy, but quite simply a bug. Microsoft has absolutely no intention of deleting Windows Copilot. On the contrary, after having tested different formulas – including it in particular as standard in its Edge browser -, the Redmond firm even recently declined it in a real independent application, directly accessible via its icon placed automatically in the taskbar – but also via the Windows + space shortcut.
Only here: once again, the publisher broadcast a patch Tuesday Bogué! A shame for this set of monthly fixes supposed to solve safety problems and correct bugs. Admittedly, the problem does not concern all the PCs under Windows 11: as we have noticed after having applied this famous updates on several PCs, Copilot disappears from some, but remains present on others.
Disappearance of Copilot: a problem in all versions of Windows
Microsoft has officially – but discreetly – recognized the problem in an assistance document. And it appears that the concern concerns both Windows 11 24H2 with the KB5053598 update, as Windows 11 23h2 with the KB5053602 and even Windows 10 with the KB5053606. And this is not just a shortcut or access problem: the Copilot application is well deleted from the PC by these updates.
Admittedly, as the publisher underlines, it is quite possible to manually reinstall the AI assistant by downloading it from the Microsoft Store. But this bug, which looks like a gag, makes a task. It is added to the long list of problems caused regularly by Windows updates for a few years. Like many others before it, the KB5053598 version for Windows 11 24H2 has still caused scares at many users who complain about an impossible installation, with a blockage, even, for the most unlucky, complete crash of their PC with the false blue screen of death (BSOD). And that is without counting on the countless bugs caused by previous updates (problems of display of menus, slowdowns, unusable peripherals, etc.): the list is long as evidenced by the reports on the technical assistance forums.
And if these more or less serious problems do not systematically touch all PC users, they worry. Installing an update of Windows even begins to be like playing the lottery, with the fear of a crash. “Install and pray,” you might say before starting the operation. Beyond sarcasm, the situation annoys so much that some singing to abandon Windows in favor of a more reliable system. Above all, it points to a drift of Microsoft which seems to no longer be able to properly ensure the quality of its updates before their massive diffusion.
Worse, it would seem that Windows 11 has become a kind of laboratory is a permanent experimental mode, instead of being the ultimate system that Microsoft presented at its launch. Rather than finalizing it properly, for example by removing the countless residues from the previous versions like the configuration panel, Microsoft seems to use it to tinker with the water, adding here and there functions not always useful, without real consistency. Will we have to wait for a hypothetical Windows 12, to finally have a modern and reliable system? Nothing is less certain, especially since the successor of Windows 11 will undoubtedly be full of AI in its smallest corners. The fact remains that by waiting for a fixing of the fixes, users refractory to AI-and there are many! – will be delighted with the disappearance of Copilot in Windows.