What Is Copilot Journeys in Edge and Should You Turn It On?

Edge quietly shipped a feature in May 2026 that remembers your research for you. It is called Copilot Journeys, and it organizes your browsing history into topic-based cards on your new tab page, complete with summaries and suggested next steps. If you have seen the cards appear on your Edge new tab page and are not sure what they are or whether to trust them, this guide covers everything.

What Copilot Journeys Actually Does

While you browse, Edge’s Copilot watches for patterns in the pages you visit. When it detects that several pages are related to the same topic, it groups them into a Journey. That Journey appears as a card on your new tab page with a short summary of the topic and a suggested next step.

For example, if you spend a few days researching laptops across different sites, Journeys groups those pages into a card called something like “Laptop research.” The card shows a summary of what you found and offers options like “Compare specs” or “Find deals” to continue. Clicking a Journey card opens a Copilot chat built around that topic.

It is not the same as Edge Collections, which let you manually curate and annotate items. Journeys is automatic and passive. You browse, and it quietly organizes in the background. You do not need to save anything yourself.

Where Journeys Is Available

As of June 2026, Journeys on Edge desktop is available in all English markets, including India (en-IN). This includes Windows and Mac. Journeys on Edge mobile is currently available in the US only. You need to be signed in with a personal Microsoft account (MSA) to use it.

How to Turn On Copilot Journeys

Journeys is not on by default. You have to switch it on in settings.

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Click the three-dot menu in the top-right corner and select Settings.
3. In the left sidebar, click Copilot and AI.
4. Click Copilot in Edge.
5. Find the Journeys section and toggle it on.

Once enabled, Journeys works in the background while you browse. After a few browsing sessions, you will start seeing Journey cards appear at the bottom of your Edge new tab page. The first time you enable it, Edge may offer to process your recent browsing history to create initial cards right away, rather than waiting for new sessions to accumulate. This is a one-time offer and is optional.

How to Use a Journey Card

Each card on the new tab page represents one topic group. Here is what you can do with a card:

• Click the card to open a Copilot chat window focused on that topic, with a summary of your research and options to go deeper.
• Click the suggested next step (shown below the card title) to jump straight into a relevant follow-up action, like comparing options or finding a deal.
• Like or dislike a card using the thumbs icons to tell Copilot whether it grouped your browsing correctly.
• Hide a card by clicking the three-dot icon on the card and choosing Hide this card. This removes it from view without turning off the feature.

What Data Journeys Uses and What It Does Not

Journeys reads the following from your browser while it is enabled:

• Page titles and URLs from sites you visit.
• Non-sensitive page content: Copilot creates a short summary of each page you visit, similar to how it might summarize a recipe page as “Step-by-step guide to making pizza from scratch.”
• Dwell time: how long you spend on each page, used to gauge importance.
• Navigation context: the sequence and links between pages you follow.
• Your Copilot chat history: conversations you have in Copilot in Edge may be used to build more relevant Journeys.

Journeys does not read pages you visit in InPrivate mode, pages you visit while signed out, banking and financial sites, and other sensitive categories filtered by Microsoft’s privacy layer. Your email content and personal identifiers are also excluded.

Journey data syncs across devices where you are signed in with the same Microsoft account, so a Journey started on your PC can continue on your other devices. Sync is managed through Edge Settings under Profiles and then Sync.

How to Turn Off Journeys and Delete Your Data

Turning Journeys off is immediate. When you disable it, Edge stops collecting data right away and deletes all previously stored Journey data.

1. Go to Settings and then Copilot and AI and then Copilot in Edge.
2. Find the Journeys toggle and switch it off.

To prevent Journeys from using your browsing history without fully disabling the feature, you can clear your browsing history in Edge Settings. Journeys builds new cards only from pages visited while the feature is active.

Is Journeys Worth Turning On?

Journeys is most useful if you regularly do multi-session research. If you spend a few days comparing phones, planning a trip, or following a news story across multiple sources, Journeys can save you a lot of time re-finding where you left off. The automatic grouping is genuinely good at detecting related browsing.

It is less useful if you browse in short, disconnected sessions or mostly visit the same few sites. In that case, the cards that appear will feel random and the feature will seem like noise on your new tab page.

The privacy trade-off is real. Journeys requires Copilot to read and summarize page content as you browse, not just log URLs. If that is a concern, keep it off and use Edge’s reading list or Favorites for manual organization instead.

Good to Know

• Journeys replaced the older Copilot Mode in Edge. If you were a Copilot Mode user, your access now comes through the new integrated Copilot button instead.
• The redesigned Edge new tab page, which shows Journeys cards, also includes a unified search and chat bar. You can switch back to the older new tab page layout in Edge settings if you prefer.
• Chrome does not have an equivalent built-in feature. Google’s comparable functionality (in Gemini and Chrome) requires the Gemini side panel and is not as automatic or browsing-history-aware as Journeys.

Copilot Journeys is one of the more thoughtful AI features Edge has shipped recently. It solves a real problem: most people lose track of their own research after a day or two. Whether the privacy trade-off is worth it is a personal call, but the feature itself works well and is easy to turn off if you change your mind.