How to Auto-Accept Copilot Edit Suggestions in VS Code

The Problem#

When using Copilot Chat to edit code, you have to manually click “Accept” for every suggested change.

Clicking Accept each time slows down your workflow, especially when you trust most of Copilot’s edits.

The chat.editing.autoAcceptDelay setting lets you automatically accept edit suggestions after a specified delay.

Auto-accept after 5 seconds:

{
  "chat.editing.autoAcceptDelay": 5
}

The default is 0 (no auto-accept). Set a number of seconds, and edit suggestions will be automatically accepted after that delay.

Value	Behavior
`0`	No auto-accept (default)
`3`–`5`	Quick accept; glance at changes and move on
`10`–`15`	Time to review while still auto-accepting if you walk away

NOTE
Even after auto-accept, you can undo changes using Chat’s checkpoint feature.

Set chat.editing.autoAcceptDelay to a number of seconds to skip the manual Accept step and keep your editing flow smooth.