Chris Wiegman

Turning off CoPilot in VSCode

| 1 min read

VS Code enables a feature in version 1.95 that shows up as a little icon next to the title bar:

Screenshot of the VS Code title bar with the command center icon to the right

It doesn’t do much to start except for trying to get you to install GitHub’s CoPilot extension:

Screenshot of the command center menu that pops up when clicking the icon

It’s annoying, but really easy to remove. Simply add the following to your VS Code settings and the icon will disappear:

{
  ...
  "chat.commandCenter.enabled": false,
  ...
}

That’s it. No more annoying icon wasting space in your editor.