Official documentation
Connected experiences in Microsoft 365
Microsoft, 2026
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- Microsoft's privacy article on connected experiences in Microsoft 365. It defines the experiences that analyze your content, names Dictate as one of them, and explains where to turn the category off in File > Account > Manage Settings.
- How much weight it carries
- Official Microsoft documentation, read on 2026-10-17. The article does not say whether turning these experiences off changes Dictate's button, so that link is not confirmed here.
Facts taken from this source
- Microsoft describes one category of connected experiences as services that use your Microsoft 365 content to give design recommendations, editing suggestions and data insights.
“These are experiences that use your Microsoft 365 content to provide design recommendations, editing suggestions, data insights, and similar features.” (Experiences that analyze your content)
- Microsoft says some Microsoft 365 features are backed by cloud-based services, which it calls connected experiences.
“features that are backed by cloud-based services, which we call "connected experiences", that provide essential functionality for those features” (Connected experiences in Microsoft 365)
- Microsoft's connected experiences article names Dictate as one of the experiences that analyze your content.
“PowerPoint Designer, Dictate, and Translator are examples of these kind of experiences.” (Experiences that analyze your content)
- Microsoft says its master setting for connected experiences also turns off other services, including document co-authoring and online file storage.
“there is a setting that allows you turn off these connected experiences, and which will also turn off other connected experiences, such as document co-authoring and online file storage” (Connected experiences in Microsoft 365)
- Microsoft says you can turn the connected experiences off from any Microsoft 365 app, such as Word, through File > Account > Manage Settings.
“There you can disable or enable, either category (or both).” (Controlling these experiences)