Outlook mobile for Apple iPhone and Android devices have two new features. Minimizing draft emails and, at last, Recall sent messages.
Minimize draft emails
It’ll soon be possible to minimize a draft email then resume writing the new or reply message later. This is a good change but not a big innovation because draft emails are already available in Outlook mobile apps.
If you’re writing an email in any Outlook app and switch away to another part of Outlook, the incomplete message should be automatically saved in the Drafts folder. That applies to any Outlook, classic, new, Mac, Web, Apple, Android, Aardvark, whatever <g>.
To resume that email, just look in the Drafts folder, click on the message to open and continue writing.
What’s changed is how a draft email can be saved and resumed in the Outlook mobile apps. There’s a Minimize button at top left of the draft message.
Any drafts appear as an icon next to the new menu at the bottom of the screen.
This feature available to Android Beta users running v4.2447.0 or later and iOS TestFlight v4.2449.0 or later. It’s also rolling out to public users.
Recall emails in Outlook mobile
The ability to Recall or ‘take back’ a sent email is being added to the Outlook mobile apps with the usual ‘gotchas’.
Click on the ‘three dots’ menu button on any sent message to see your options, that list will (or soon) include Recall.
Already on that menu is one of Peter’s favorite options ‘Resend’.
Recall might seem like a godsend but it has limitations:
- Recall is limited to messages within an organization using Microsoft 365 hosted email
- Even then, the message might not be recall-able because it’s too old.
