Cannot turn Copilot Memory off

[aannenko]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Copilot Enterprise

Body

If you have a personal account within an organization that provides access to Copilot Enterprise, open github.com and log in -> click on your user icon -> Copilot settings -> Ctrl+F "Copilot Memory" -> see if you can turn it off.

The text states "You can turn this off at any time, regardless of enterprise or organization policy" but as I understand it, your organization can still enforce it so that you won’t be able to disable it.

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[ShubhamTiwari007xx]

The settings page says:

“You can turn this off at any time, regardless of enterprise or organization policy”

But in practice, enterprise/org policy may still lock or enforce the setting.

That would make this either:

A documentation/UI text bug, or
A policy precedence bug where enterprise controls override the user toggle despite the wording.

The problematic part is the phrase:

“regardless of enterprise or organization policy”

because that explicitly promises user override capability.

A clearer behavior would be one of these:

If enterprise policy overrides user choice:

“Your organization may require Copilot Memory to remain enabled.”

If users truly always control it:
Then the toggle should never be locked or force-enabled.

[devv2308]

The settings page says:

“You can turn this off at any time, regardless of enterprise or organization policy”

But in practice, enterprise/org policy may still lock or enforce the setting.

That would make this either:

A documentation/UI text bug, or
A policy precedence bug where enterprise controls override the user toggle despite the wording.

The problematic part is the phrase:

“regardless of enterprise or organization policy”

because that explicitly promises user override capability.

A clearer behavior would be one of these:

If enterprise policy overrides user choice:

“Your organization may require Copilot Memory to remain enabled.”

If users truly always control it:
Then the toggle should never be locked or force-enabled.