Microsoft’s June 12, 2025 launch of Copilot Vision expands the company’s AI assistant from a chat box into an on-screen companion. The feature is available as a free update in the Copilot app for Windows 11 version 23H2 on PCs that support Copilot and for Windows 10. A similar free camera mode is available for iOS and Android. At launch, distribution is limited to the United States, with Microsoft promising to expand to other non-European countries soon. The company has also removed the Copilot Pro subscription requirement.
Copilot Vision is located in the existing Copilot pane, which now docks on the right edge of the desktop. A new eyeglasses icon opens a pop-up that lists every open window. The user simply selects which windows to share. Once permission is granted, the assistant can see whatever appears in those windows — such as an ERP dashboard, a CAD drawing, a code editor, a video game, or even two apps at once — and can respond in real time.
Users stay in control. Pressing Stop or X immediately ends the session. Nothing outside the selected windows is visible to Copilot. On some PCs, the feature will not start unless screen reader support is already enabled.
On mobile, a user just points the camera and speaks, and Copilot responds in the selected voice, for example, "Wave."
The same update adds Deep Research and File Search tabs for broader information retrieval.
Microsoft describes this feature as a "second set of eyes." Copilot now combines text and visuals, so it can summarize a PDF, explain a stack trace, draft an email, translate a road sign, suggest the next move in a game, guide a photo editing adjustment in Photoshop, improve lighting on a picture, review a travel itinerary and packing list, coach a vacuum cleaner repair, or walk a user through an unfamiliar Windows settings page — all without leaving the current context.
Because Vision can view two windows at once, it can connect information, such as matching calendar availability with dates on an events website or comparing spreadsheet data with a browser dashboard.
The Highlights mode deepens this experience. A simple request such as "show me how" causes Copilot to highlight the exact button, menu, or text field the user needs. The assistant can also show related content proactively when it recognizes that help could be useful.
Vision is not Recall. There is no continuous screenshot capture, and users can revoke access at any time. Still, Microsoft acknowledges privacy concerns. Enterprises are advised to extend existing data loss prevention rules and audit logs to screen sharing with AI, especially because displays can show confidential information even if the underlying data never leaves the device.
The product is part of Copilot Labs, Microsoft’s experimental incubator, and was previewed during the company’s fiftieth anniversary event in April 2025. Microsoft calls the launch a "major step forward," positioning it directly against Google Gemini Live and Apple Intelligence.
For software development teams, this change goes beyond convenience. Vision can process stack traces, terminal logs, design mockups, and Jira tickets in parallel, allowing an engineer to ask a single question instead of switching between tools. It can walk a junior developer through a refactor in Visual Studio by highlighting the right lines, compare a code difference to a specification during a review and explain any mismatches, and observe a failing user interface test while suggesting a possible root cause.
Organizations piloting this feature should reinforce secure coding practices, prompt engineering patterns, and data loss prevention policies that prohibit sharing production secrets or personally identifiable data. Executives should update security training so staff understand that sharing a window means exporting its content.
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