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Microsoft Updates iOS Outlook App With Security-Enhanced Touch ID Support

Apple could add this in an instant to iOS. Just let us set to "require fingerprint to open apps," and let us have a switch next to each app we have installed. Swipe to require fingerprint (or passcode for that matter). And when are we going to see identities???
 
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Kaibelf said:
Doesn't make sense. It's the same process, and mine opens just fine.
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Tried again. Same issue.
Since I am going from Touch ID to MS app in 1 click, I doubt my finger's surface has changed drastically in the 1-3 seconds! But I will restart my device and see if it improves. I love the idea and want it to work.
 
I know it's not a part of this update, but does anyone else wish that MS would add variable size fonts to outlook?
I like that app but have a hard time reading with the fonts they use. As a result, I keep using the default Apple Mail client.
 
Anyone who trusts Microsoft to securely store any data is being fooled.

Look at the centralization of Skype as an example. Skype messages aren't stored encrypted on MS servers.
 
Chatter said:
So I was super excited to use this BUT its not unlocking quickly. Took me 3-4 touches to get the app to recognize my fingerprint and still jumped me to the passcode screen.

Unlock phone - instant touch id
Touch app to unlock app - not smooth

So maybe the implementation will improve. Love the idea.
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Mine works perfectly on the 6S. Should take the same as unlocking. Same speed as my bank app and a few others.
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Outlook for me has replaced mail ever since it debuted w push support for others like gmail.
Nowadays I have a big folder w mostly crap that used to work fine from Apple that it doesn't work as good now. Another example is the music app.
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courtma41 said:
This is actually great for me. I keep my work email in Outlook and all my personal email in the iOS stock mail app.
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Why? I have them all on outlook. Especially if your personal is gmail then it makes sense to have it on outlook instead of mail due to push.
 
Chatter said:
Tried again. Same issue.
Since I am going from Touch ID to MS app in 1 click, I doubt my finger's surface has changed drastically in the 1-3 seconds! But I will restart my device and see if it improves. I love the idea and want it to work.
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For me it's really a super fast tap to unlock just as it is with the normal lock screen on my iPhone 6S - if it weren't so fast I might not use it
 
Is this why my Outlook iOS App wouldn't sync for 3 days last week? Judging by the support forums I wasn't the only one.
 
patrickbarnes said:
Anyone who trusts Microsoft to securely store any data is being fooled.

Look at the centralization of Skype as an example. Skype messages aren't stored encrypted on MS servers.
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Relating to this how exactly?

How does one request something be added to an article?
I ask because I couldn't get this to work, though the switch is there, and had to go back to the update info that says this is iOS 9 only, which is a bummer
 
Chatter said:
So I was super excited to use this BUT its not unlocking quickly. Took me 3-4 touches to get the app to recognize my fingerprint and still jumped me to the passcode screen.

Unlock phone - instant touch id
Touch app to unlock app - not smooth

So maybe the implementation will improve. Love the idea.
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i hasn't tried the outlook app after update. but it shouldn't be the case. when i used the paypal with touch id, it seem fine.
 
DrumApple said:
I switched to using Outlook as my email client. While it isn't perfect, it beats the Apple Mail app by miles. Plus it gets better and better because they update it regularly like this, unlike Apple who seem to think their app is perfect. Outlook pushes mail MUCH faster than Mail which mostly fetches every 15 minutes, if you want your mail in real-time use Outlook.
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Yes, Outlook is a little better than Apple Mail, but neither do IMAP Push. Also Apple Mail -where available- gets the entire mail by pushed while Outlook only gets the headers pushed to the notification center -which explains the quicker notifications. The mail itself is only downloaded once Outlook is started.
What's even worse than that is that Outlook is not a native email-client. It's only a client for Microsofts cloud email services which retrieve and then push mails to Outlook for iPad. Naturally, this requires your confidential logins and emails to be stored on or respectively relayed through Microsofts Cloud servers. Found this out by checking the logfiles of my mailserver... really bad practice... technically a MITM.
 
[AUT] Thomas said:
Yes, Outlook is a little better than Apple Mail, but neither do IMAP Push. Also Apple Mail -where available- gets the entire mail by pushed while Outlook only gets the headers pushed to the notification center -which explains the quicker notifications. The mail itself is only downloaded once Outlook is started.
What's even worse than that is that Outlook is not a native email-client. It's only a client for Microsofts cloud email services which retrieve and then push mails to Outlook for iPad. Naturally, this requires your confidential logins and emails to be stored on or respectively relayed through Microsofts Cloud servers. Found this out by checking the logfiles of my mailserver... really bad practice... technically a MITM.
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All I know is that it ultimately gets me my emails faster, thus making me more productive. I don't care how they do it.
 
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