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Microsoft today updated its Outlook app with full support for Split View on compatible iPad models, allowing users to multitask in a variety of ways, such as having an email and calendar open side by side.

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Split View also enables users to drag and drop text, photos, and files from one app to another, such as dragging text from Safari into an Outlook email. To drag and drop text, select the text first, and touch and hold the text until it lifts up. To select multiple items, touch and hold an item, drag it slightly, and then continue to hold it while tapping additional items with another finger.

Outlook for iOS is a free download on the App Store for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Split View support comes in version 4.23.0.

Article Link: Microsoft Outlook App Optimized for Split View on iPad
 
now do the same with onenote... now do the same with onenote... now do the same with onenote...
 
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I'm looking forward (a decade from now) when the big iPhones can run two apps side by side in landscape mode.
Here we've got a 7nm 6 core A13 SOC and app usage is still like pre-1984

It has been available in Android for years. It is available in jailbroken iOS too.

Honestly, I hate how slow Apple is at incorporating new features.

That old defense that "features arrive late but Apple does it better, it just works" is a lie, just look at how buggy iOS 11 and iOS 13 have been. How bad signal reception was even though 4G and 5G adoption was late.
 
Does someone know when sync will be extended. The app is kind of useless how it is now.
 
Hahaha, so real multitasking is tasteless. Typical sheep would believe anything or defend lack thereof.

What is there to defend? Why don’t you get an Android phone if that feature is so important?

Ultimately Apple isn’t looking at forums like this as frequently or in as much detail as people think. They (Apple as a whole) probably think this is best left to the iPad to handle. That is what a tablet is for.

Apple or not, it’s just a phone.

Email is so 2019.
 
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Outlook is garbage on iPhone, iPad and Mac. I use them all and they’re all unstable (mac app crashes all the time) and unreliable (breaks up threads, search sucks).
 
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Outlook is garbage on iPhone, iPad and Mac. I use them all and they’re all unstable (mac app crashes all the time) and unreliable (breaks up threads, search sucks).
I suggest you ask Microsoft for help. I’ve been using Outlook for Mac at my workplaces for half a year and it never crashed on me, search worked and threads didn’t break. Must be something with your setup. I do question its design decisions though.
 
I suggest you ask Microsoft for help. I’ve been using Outlook for Mac at my workplaces for half a year and it never crashed on me, search worked and threads didn’t break. Must be something with your setup. I do question its design decisions though.
Same for me.
Outlook for Mac is garbage. Lot of disconnects, feature set is worse,...
would like to have the same features from windows. Cannot understand how to work with it in business.
 
Outlook on Mac has been pretty stable for me, I haven't tried the iPad app. Perhaps I'll take a look at it now that split view has been added. I usually do have two windows up when I compose.
 
I suggest you ask Microsoft for help. I’ve been using Outlook for Mac at my workplaces for half a year and it never crashed on me, search worked and threads didn’t break. Must be something with your setup. I do question its design decisions though.

Agree, never has a crash on iOS. I see them in the app store reviews, so not discounting it happening, but never had one honestly. Even on the Testflight versions which are beta. Never any huge app crashes.
 
Very good news. I hope they start testing with external keyboard too.

I mostly do split view with outlook and teams app. Thanks
 
pretty good to me. I have been annoyed for a while outlook didn’t have this feature.
i keep my work email address in outlook, mail for personal. a system that works for me.
 
It's 2020 and Outlook:Mac still doesn't support CalDAV/CardDAV, and Outlook:iOS still doesn't support any other contacts source besides iCloud. Pass.
 
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now do the same with onenote... now do the same with onenote... now do the same with onenote...
Uh? OneNote supports split screen and drag and drop.
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Outlook on Mac still does not support calendar and inbox side-by-side view. Hoping that may come someday.
 
Uh? OneNote supports split screen and drag and drop.

Doesn’t have full support for split view though - no support for multiple windows, which is what I really want. And a checklist view like the iPhone version has (even if limited to slideover) would be nice.
 
Outlook on Mac still does not support calendar and inbox side-by-side view. Hoping that may come someday.
You can open multiple main windows (File ▸ New ▸Main Window) and have one show your calendar and another your mailboxes.

(I know, multiple windows is so 1984.)
 
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