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OneDrive is getting an AI feature that names your files so you don’t have to

Microsoft's Copilot Suggested Rename reads what's inside your OneDrive files and suggests better names for them automatically.

By Shikhar Mehrotra Published June 1, 2026

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Renaming files is one of those tasks that sounds trivial until you are staring at a folder full of documents or files called Document1, Scan_04182026, and FinalFINALv3. Microsoft is doing something about it.

A new feature, called Copilot Suggested Rename, is on the Microsoft 365 roadmap. It is scheduled to roll out starting June 2026. The AI-powered OneDrive feature reads the content of your file and automatically recommends clear, descriptive file names, saving you time.

How does Copilot Suggested Rename actually work?

The feature is built directly into the rename dialog inside OneDrive (on web).

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When you go to rename a file, Copilot goes through its content and offers three context-aware name suggestions within the rename dialog. You can pick one with a single click.

The feature also shows up in the post-upload toast notification, the pop-up that appears when you upload a single supported file, so you could rename it immediately after it lands in OneDrive.

Which file types does it support?

Copilot Suggested Rename works across a wide range of formats. Microsoft Office documents, including Word (DOCX), PowerPoint (PPTX), and Excel (XLSX), are all supported, along with PDFs, Markdown files, and images.

That, I’d say, covers the overwhelming majority of files most people actually store online. The feature is currently in development. And yes, It is a web-only feature for now, meaning it will be available for personal and business OneDrive users on the web, while the desktop or mobile rollout might follow.

In my opinion, file naming has been a low-priority problem ignored by desktop and computer, widely ignored, and genuinely annoying at scale. Microsoft building AI-powered rename suggestions directly into the OneDrive rename dialog is the right place to begin.

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