MS has announced plans to unite all forms of Outlook with one platform. Please, oh gods, completely redo this app.
Outlook was cobbled together when MS bought Acompli (mail) and Sunrise (calendar). Since then, what’s good is what they inherited; what’s poor is pure MS.
After MS bought Acompli and became proud of the “focused inbox” that other developers developed, it then (July 2017) reworked the app into a clunky, busy, shelf apparatus that hides the number of emails in any Inbox and the folders. The sleepwalking engineers also replaced email account names with account icons and suddenly the multiple Gmail accounts, for example, were indistinguishable from each other. Well, duh. Check out the dog-ugly solution. (Notice that the app’s Apple site shows only ONE email account per email client.)
The app also became unprofessionally juvenile: e.g., an empty drafts folder says “start writing something fabulous.” Some writing is fabulous, but not emails. We also get the notice, “Nothing left to read, well played” — that would be a junior-high grammar mistake called a comma splice.
The calendar purchased from Sunrise did improve when someone at MS finally awakened and gave us a monthly view; but bugs appear too: single, all-day events on the Apple calendar appear as two day events on the Outlook calendar; the overly cutesy forward/backward calendar sometimes fails, and so on.
Outlook remains a Hannah Montana app not ready for professional work and maybe, just maybe, we’ll get a real professional app with the rebuild of the Outlook family.
MS has announced plans to unite all forms of Outlook with one platform. Please, oh gods, completely redo this app.
Outlook was cobbled together when MS bought Acompli (mail) and Sunrise (calendar). Since then, what’s good is what they inherited; what’s poor is pure MS.
After MS bought Acompli and became proud of the “focused inbox” that other developers developed, it then (July 2017) reworked the app into a clunky, busy, shelf apparatus that hides the number of emails in any Inbox and the folders. The sleepwalking engineers also replaced email account names with account icons and suddenly the multiple Gmail accounts, for example, were indistinguishable from each other. Well, duh. Check out the dog-ugly solution. (Notice that the app’s Apple site shows only ONE email account per email client.)
The app also became unprofessionally juvenile: e.g., an empty drafts folder says “start writing something fabulous.” Some writing is fabulous, but not emails. We also get the notice, “Nothing left to read, well played” — a junior-high grammar mistake called a comma splice.
The calendar purchased from Sunrise did improve when someone at MS finally awakened and gave us a monthly view; but bugs appear too: single, all-day events on the Apple calendar appear as two day events on the Outlook calendar; the overly cutesy forward/backward calendar sometimes fails, and so on.
Outlook remains a Hannah Montana app not ready for professional work and maybe, just maybe, we’ll get a real professional app with the rebuild of the Outlook family.
Microsoft Outlook is my most favorite and fully integrated email app but...
I have a question and a suggestion here...why would I want to see the events of all my calendars under calendar?
Suggestion:
So when I click the calendar button at the bottom of app, it can still continue to display all my events. But there shall be a drop down to choose which email account’s calendar event I want to see “that moment”. (example: it can be like when you compose a new email it has a drop down to choose the email IDs)
Currently I have configured 4 email accounts including my personal, my kids school accounts and my office accounts in my Outlook and it’s really overwhelming to see all my personal, kids and office events together under calendar.
Hope I am clear, Please do the needful.
Thanks!
Your last update introduced a few bugs please fix them. The big + is horrible in my opinion please give an option to not use it
Every three or four months I tried this app out; use outlook everywhere else except on the iOS device because your Outlook calendar on the iOS device has charms; some appointments have charms some don’t; because of this looking at appointments becomes very cluttered little dots big charms that along with the contacts attending the meeting make reading the agenda view next to impossible. outlook should at least at the very least provide the end-user a way to opt out of using these stupid charms!
Put together with digital glue and bad code outlook for iOS is a train wreck. Back to the aol 80’s: we cannot delete all mails in the deleted mail folder at one. It’s a very s l o w one at a time. Sent mails, supposedly sent, go to the drafts folder daily, and crash crash crash. a slew of very basic issues that even aol ( in the 80’s) had and fixed. I’ll use chrome email for business and online orders. Slowly migrating my contacts there. Having to explain where the mail I sent I’ve had enough of. I fully expect yahoo mail is far better. Wow what a mess!
I don’t really see the benefit of this over the regular iOS mail app, but I was forced to use it by my employer. I don’t like how I can’t sort the emails by oldest first, I can’t have a regular sound like the native mail app, and when I want to share something through email from another app, it doesn’t automatically fill out the subject heading like the native app. Also, when I’m reading an email and delete a message, it takes me back to my inbox instead of just going to the next email.
My organization uses outlook and, in an effort to keep some separation between work and the rest of life, I choose not to forward my work emails to gmail like almost everyone else I know. Everyone else does it because the outlook desktop and web apps are often cumbersome. I agree with that, but just deal with it. That being said, I started using this app on my iPad a couple weeks ago and it is the best version of Outlook I have encountered. Glad to have something that works so smooth.
I have had your app not synch with my Outlook on my computer. You did something to not allow emails to synch. I deleted the app, reinstalled and it’s telling me you can’t log me in. I used the email through Apple and same email and password allowed me to get my emails, so why does the app not accept my password but through the iOS email it does. That clearly shows me there is an issue on your side of the house.
I enjoy using this for my work email. It gets the job done and works well majority of the time. The only thing I have issues with is the inconsistency of notifications. I have DnD times setup within the app and use them often, but despite having the settings In place I still get notifications when I shouldn’t or vice versa. These issues have been ongoing for some time.
Other than that the app is great.
I love Microsoft and I also love Microsoft outlook for iOS. But there is a bug whenever I reply to a message, the reply automatically is send as a new message. Its fine at first, but now my email is full of the same person, and I’m getting tired of deleting email. So please fix this. Otherwise Outlook or iOS is fine. (But I can’t figure out how to change my profile picture.)