Microsoft Launches Outlook for iOS with iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo Mail Support

[johngordon]

I am really liking it. Acompli passed me by, so am new to it. But the combination it the clean UI, having mail, calendar and contacts together, plus the swipe to schedule emails is pretty great.

Just need them to add IMAP support and I'll be completely sold.

One minor thing on the UI which I've also noticed in other calendar apps but never understood why - in the events list view is there a reason for the indent of about 1cm on the left hand side?

 

[fitshaced]

Maybe my eyes are bad but it's not so easy to tell an unread mail from a read one. The default mail app looks better I my opinion. No need for the 'quick filter' button which throws my screen feng shui out of whack.

It does do push mail though which is nice.

 

[einsteinbqat]

Anyone else able to connect iCloud email to this? Mine will jot work. I have 2-factor setup and generated a password.

No go for me as well. Also 2 factor setup

You guys need to set up an App-specific password.

Log in at https://appleid.apple.com/
Go to Password & Security.
Generate an app-specific password.
Use that password with Outlook.

It worked for me.

 

[saberahul]

Definitely not a bad app. I used Accompli for quite a while (this is the same app BTW) so no learning curve there. My only wish is that they would allow notification times to be set such that I don't hear my mails beeping at 2AM. I could turn on DND, but I have reasons not to so that's a bummer.

 

[Daysight]

You guys need to set up an App-specific password.
Log in at https://appleid.apple.com/
Go to Password & Security.
Generate an app-specific password.
Use that password with Outlook.
It worked for me.

Didn't work for me. Tried multiple times.

 

[Apple_Robert]

If Microsoft stops caching passwords and other user information on their servers, I might give the app a test run. As it stands, I don't feel comfortable handing the keys to Microsoft.

 

[Morac]

Microsoft Launches Outlook for iOS with iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo Mail Support

If Microsoft stops caching passwords and other user information on their servers, I might give the app a test run. As it stands, I don't feel comfortable handing the keys to Microsoft.

The problem is, if Microsoft stops doing that, the app won't work as it relies on that server data. The app doesn't talk directly to third party mail servers. All data flows through Microsoft's severs to the app. Microsoft's servers talk to the mail servers.

 

[Michael Goff]

If Microsoft stops caching passwords and other user information on their servers, I might give the app a test run. As it stands, I don't feel comfortable handing the keys to Microsoft.

Why not?

 

[nebo1ss]

I cannot access the contacts on my phone from Outlook. I looked at all the settings on outlook and do not see one to switch it on. I have also looked at settings, Privacy, Contacts and outlook does not appear there.

Surely this must be available what am I doing wrong.

 

[petvas]

I cannot access the contacts on my phone from Outlook. I looked at all the settings on outlook and do not see one to switch it on. I have also looked at settings, Privacy, Contacts and outlook does not appear there.

Surely this must be available what am I doing wrong.

You are doing nothing wrong. Outlook for iOS doesn't support contacts. It only displays the last used email addresses...

 

[Crocodoc]

Nup, still not as good as literally anything else.

 

[nebo1ss]

You are doing nothing wrong. Outlook for iOS doesn't support contacts. It only displays the last used email addresses...

Thank you for confirming that. I guess I will have to wait for an update I cannot use an Email Client that cannot access my email addresses from my contacts.

 

[Muttznuttz]

Is anyone getting a username/password error when trying to add an iCloud email account? I got the password right...but I do have multiple emails - a me.com an iCloud.com and a gmail.com linked to the same Apple ID
Am I doing something wrong?

I'm having the same issues. Uninstalled for now.

 

[teknikal90]

I'm having the same issues. Uninstalled for now.

i fixed it.
turns out you have to make an app-specific password through my apple id.

this whole two step verification bs is getting out of hand!

 

[saturnotaku]

I've used Acompli for a while and just made the transition to Outlook. No issues at all syncing and working with my GMail accounts.

 

[Daysight]

i fixed it. turns out you have to make an app-specific password through my apple id.

Didn't work for me. I gave up and deleted the app.

 

[teknikal90]

Didn't work for me. I gave up and deleted the app.

make sure you dont include the dash in between the codes.

 

[perkedel]

My company already has banned it because it is caching mail and login details on Microsoft servers. Hopefully they'll fix this issue soon.

Likewise in ours too.
It would be interesting to see when MSFT will address that.

 

[Vulkan]

What error do you get? I'm getting 'Unable to login'

That is pretty much it, but it doesn't work... so i went back to Mail.app

 

[MrJungle]

Bug in reply screen (on iPad)

I got off to a great start with the product until I tried to reply to an e-mail, the cursor loses focus and keystrikes are not entered.
I went to file a bug within the app, and head the same problem!!

Watching to see the next version release, they claim updates will roll every 2 weeks or so, until then, I am back to the default mail client.

(No third party keyboard installed btw)

 

[C DM]

How can I find it?

You can search for "Outlook" in the App Store.

 

[Aniseedvan]

Likewise in ours too.
It would be interesting to see when MSFT will address that.

Agreed, ours hasn't banned it yet but it doesn't sit right with me for corporate emails to be cached on MS servers. It would be interesting to understand what feature set we would lose if this could be switched off.

 

[C DM]

Agreed, ours hasn't banned it yet but it doesn't sit right with me for corporate emails to be cached on MS servers. It would be interesting to understand what feature set we would lose if this could be switched off.

Are the emails/content actually cached or mainly just the credentials?

 

[perkedel]

Are the emails/content actually cached or mainly just the credentials?

From what I read from the banned memo, is that the credentials are cache, it didn't say anything about the email themselves. I could see why they're reluctant to have the corporate login cached by 3rd party.

 

[Trahearne]

Are the emails/content actually cached or mainly just the credentials?

Mails are cached and indexed for "better search experience" as in Mailbox.

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Agreed, ours hasn't banned it yet but it doesn't sit right with me for corporate emails to be cached on MS servers. It would be interesting to understand what feature set we would lose if this could be switched off.

Exchange ActiveSync can be token-based IIRC, so the EAS client does not store the credentials but instead a token.

But still the only way to push directly to your devices without APNS is the native Exchange ActiveSync client. In other words, unless Apple looses its control and let third party apps to register always-active push listeners in the background, any forms of push emails on iOS must be routed from a third-party middleman or the service itself, to the Apple middleman, and finally to your device.

Moreover, even Outlook the rebranded Acompli no longer caches your e-mail, but simply route push messages via their servers, the messages would still be visible to the middleman with today's Exchange software IIRC. That's is, as from the server's perspective the server is the user's device, the server pushes unencrypted text (over secure connection) to the "device", where the "device" will route the message to the end user via APNS. So unless Microsoft adds an extra layer of encryption specifically for publicly-routed pushes in the future version of Exchange, I am afraid the native EAS client would still be the only choice for restricted environment in the foreseeable future.