Microsoft Copilot: What's New | September 2026

A Refreshed Copilot in Teams and OutlookAvailable in September

Copilot in Teams and Outlook is adopting a new design consistent with the Copilot app, simplifying navigation and chat interactions while offering new ways to organize work. The redesign covers both full-screen Copilot and the in-app Copilot side pane.

The Copilot New Tab Page in EdgeComing in October

The new Copilot tab page will bring search, chat, and web exploration together in a single search box while presenting recommended Copilot actions and curated work content, reducing the need to switch between different entry points. View the roadmap.

Invoke Agents and Skills Directly in PromptsAvailable in September

While writing a prompt, users can invoke agents with / and skills with @, adding specialized capabilities without interrupting their flow. View the roadmap.

More Accurate Matching for Scanned PDF ContentAvailable in September

Copilot Chat now matches search results from scanned PDFs more effectively, helping users locate relevant information faster and spend less time searching page by page. View the roadmap.

Copilot Editing on AndroidAvailable on Android in September; available on iOS earlier this year

Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for Android now support modifying content with Copilot, enabling users to keep working on documents, presentations, and spreadsheets from a mobile device. The corresponding capabilities became available on iOS earlier in 2026.

New Connectors, Plugins, and Agents

More business systems and industry knowledge are being connected to Copilot. This month, Microsoft listed the following 33 connectors, plugins, or agents across eight industry categories; the article does not specify a rollout date for each item. Learn more through Microsoft Marketplace.

A Unified Microsoft Plugin RegistryAvailable in September

The Microsoft Plugin Registry provides a unified catalog for Microsoft, partner, and custom plugins, making capabilities such as skills and connectors available in the Copilot app and Microsoft 365 apps. IT administrators only need to discover and approve them once, after which they can manage them centrally through the Microsoft 365 admin center and Agent 365 and make them available consistently across Copilot experiences. Developers and partners can also publish once and scale deployment while preserving administrator control.

Bring SharePoint Framework Interactive Components into ChatRolling out to Frontier in September

SharePoint Framework apps can present interactive interfaces directly in Copilot chat. Without leaving the conversation, users can view information, interact with controls, and perform actions.

SharePoint Tools in Work IQRolling out to Frontier in September

SharePoint content and action tools will bring SharePoint content intelligence into Work IQ, enabling Copilot not only to understand relevant content but also to act on it. The original article describes this capability as coming soon and says it is rolling out to Frontier in September.

Record in the Copilot Mobile AppAvailable in September

Record supports capturing in-person conversations and voice notes, then generating AI transcriptions and summaries in Copilot Chat. Users can ask follow-up questions, extract action items, or continue working from the recording, making it useful for impromptu discussions, customer visits, and dictated ideas. View the roadmap.

Handle Common Calls and Complete TransfersAvailable in September

Teams Phone Agent is designed for customer service organizations and departments that already use Teams Phone, such as branch offices and IT help desks. It can handle repetitive inquiries, answer frequently asked questions, book or reschedule appointments, and support more than 60 languages. When human assistance is needed, it can transfer the caller to the appropriate department or employee while providing an AI-generated conversation summary, reducing menu navigation and the need for callers to repeat themselves.

View Source Citations in ResponsesAvailable in September

Copilot responses in Word now directly display citations to relevant web and work sources, helping users understand the basis for an answer and return to the corresponding sources to verify the content.

Arrange and Modify Images and Shapes DirectlyAvailable in September

Users can ask Copilot to adjust visual elements such as images and shapes directly within a Word document, reducing manual arrangement and layout work and making it easier to improve the document's presentation.

Package Multistep Presentation Workflows as Skills

Skills turn presentation work that requires multiple steps into reusable capabilities, helping Copilot follow an established process without requiring users to rewrite each prompt step by step. Learn about brand kits and skills.

Prebuilt SkillsAvailable in September

New prebuilt skills address common presentation improvement needs: “Explain this presentation” helps review the narrative, audience fit, and overall flow, while “Sharpen slide titles” rewrites slide titles so they summarize the content of each slide more accurately.

Administrators Distribute Skills CentrallyAvailable in September

Administrators can publish approved skills to selected users, user groups, or the entire organization, so team members no longer need to create or upload the same skill individually.

Brand Kits Support SkillsComing in October

Brand managers can place reusable workflow skills in a brand kit alongside the organization's visual standards, allowing presentations to follow both appearance requirements and a consistent workflow. View the brand skill guidance.

Reference Business Materials Through ConnectorsAvailable in September

When creating slides, users can directly use information from connected apps and data sources, grounding presentations in their organization's existing materials and reducing the need to find and move content across multiple systems.

Long-Running Tasks Continue in the BackgroundComing in October

Copilot can continue long-running tasks after users leave PowerPoint, switch devices, go offline, or finish work for the day, and notify them when the work is complete or requires their attention. The experience spans desktop, web, and mobile.

Create, Organize, and Understand Content in Sites and Document LibrariesAvailable in September; generally available

Copilot in SharePoint can help create and organize content directly in sites and document libraries, answer questions grounded in SharePoint, generate document library metadata, and use skills to reuse repetitive workflows. Advanced capabilities also include image generation and editing, AI site analytics reports, and near-real-time metadata autofill. View the roadmap.

Copilot Search Becomes the Default Search in SharePoint and OneDriveRolling out to Frontier in September

The new default search combines natural-language understanding, semantic retrieval, and AI-generated answers. Within the supported content scope, it retrieves information according to users' existing permissions and generates answers, helping them find what they need more directly.

A Content Experience Consistent with SharePointAvailable in September; generally available

The rebuilt Copilot in OneDrive uses the same foundation as Copilot in SharePoint, providing a more consistent experience for creating and organizing content and working with files, so work is not fragmented based on where content is stored. Its licensing is the same as Copilot in SharePoint; the original article does not list specific licensing plans.

Centrally Designate Authoritative SharePoint Sites for the OrganizationAvailable in September

Administrators can mark up to 100 SharePoint sites as authoritative sources for Copilot Search, identifying verified official content to improve the relevance and trustworthiness of Copilot Search and Chat results. The centralized management interface supports viewing, adding, and removing sources, as well as importing and exporting them in bulk. View the roadmap.

Combine Adoption Data with Targeted FeedbackAvailable in September

Leaders can use dynamic survey lists to launch targeted Pulse surveys: audiences are generated from Copilot adoption data and refined with existing criteria, reducing manual maintenance of recipient lists. Combining employee sentiment with adoption information helps assess the experience and identify opportunities to increase adoption. To protect privacy, surveys use aggregated, population-level reporting rather than showing individual usage. View the roadmap.