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Retirement of PDF Audio Overviews in the Copilot mobile app

Microsoft is retiring Audio Overviews for PDFs in the Copilot mobile app, a feature that turns a PDF into a podcast-style audio summary.

Timeline

The retirement is planned for 30 October 2026.

How does this affect your users?

Audio Overviews let Copilot Premium users turn a PDF into an AI-generated, two-person, podcast-style audio overview. Users open the document in the app and select the headphone icon.

The feature was designed to help users get the gist of lengthy documents without reading every page, especially when they wanted to listen hands-free. Copilot Basic users could not access it.

The Copilot mobile app with the Ask Copilot field and the highlighted headphone icon for Audio Overviews
Audio Overviews for PDFs will be retired

After the retirement, users no longer see the option to create an Audio Overview when they view a PDF in the Copilot app. Audio Overviews generated earlier are no longer available for playback.
Users who want to keep the key points from a document should note them down or save a summary in another way before the retirement date. Users who still need a quick understanding of a long PDF can continue to open and read the file in the app as usual.

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Tobias Asböck

Tobias Asböck

Tobias is a Senior System Engineer with more than 10 years of professional experience with Microsoft 365 products such as SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams Collaboration, Entra ID, Information Protection, Universal Print, and Microsoft 365 Licensing. He also has 15+ years of experience planning, administering, and operating SharePoint Server environments. In his spare time, Tobias is busy with updates in the Microsoft 365 world or on the road with his road bike and other sports activities. If you have additional questions, please contact me via LinkedIn or support@topedia.com.

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