GitHub Copilot Code Review Settings Expand to Every Plan
GitHub CopilotGitHub Copilot code review now gives every Copilot plan, including Business and Enterprise, its own dedicated personal settings page for automatic review and default review effort, a capability that was previously limited to Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max. The new "code review" settings page, found under a developer's Copilot profile settings, adds separate toggles for automatic review on new pushes and on draft pull requests, plus a default review effort choice between Lite and Balanced. Enterprise administrators separately gained the ability to set an organization-wide default review effort that repositories inherit unless they configure their own override.
Key Takeaways
- GitHub Copilot's personal code review settings, formerly gated to Pro, Pro+, and Max, are now available on every Copilot plan, including Business and Enterprise.
- The feature lives on a new dedicated "code review" settings page under a developer's Copilot profile settings, replacing the old single toggle buried in the general "Copilot features" page.
- Developers can now separately enable automatic review for new pushes and for draft pull requests, controls that didn't exist as independent options before.
- A new default review effort setting lets developers choose between Lite and Balanced as their baseline, while still overriding it per request from the pull request page.
- Enterprise administrators can now set a single default review effort for the whole enterprise, which organization-owned repositories inherit unless overridden locally.
- The changes are generally available as of September 23, 2026, following closely behind the September 18 code review overview redesign, continuing GitHub's steady cadence of Copilot code review refinements.
Personal Review Settings Reach Every Plan
GitHub Copilot code review's personal configuration options were previously gated to Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max subscribers, living as a single automatic-review toggle on the general "Copilot features" page. As of September 23, 2026, GitHub made these settings generally available on every Copilot plan, including Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, and moved them into their own dedicated page.
Developers can now find a "code review" page under their profile's Copilot settings. From there, they can turn on automatic reviews from Copilot, which trigger when a developer creates a pull request, coauthors one, or moves a pull request out of draft state.
Finer Control Over When Copilot Reviews
Beyond simply expanding access, GitHub also broke the old single toggle into more granular controls. Developers can now separately enable automatic review for new pushes to an existing pull request, and for draft pull requests they create or coauthor, options that didn't exist as independent settings before.
The same page also introduces a default review effort setting, letting developers choose Lite or Balanced as their baseline. That default applies to any review a developer requests, including ones triggered automatically, but it isn't final: when manually requesting a review from Copilot through the pull request page's "Reviewers" section, a developer can still pick a different effort level for that specific request.
Enterprise Admins Get an Org-Wide Default
Alongside the personal settings, GitHub gave enterprise administrators a new lever of their own: a single default review effort, Lite, Balanced, or the GitHub default, that applies enterprise-wide to organization-owned repositories through inheritance. Organizations and individual repositories retain the ability to override that enterprise default with their own setting, so the change adds a baseline without removing existing flexibility at lower levels.