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The outlook mobile tag covers Microsoft's Outlook for iOS and Android, including upcoming features like Purview attachment label inheritance, OneDrive signature image picker, and drag-and-drop calendar rescheduling. It also tracks the retirement of Outlook Lite for Android, with migration to Outlook Mobile before May 25, 2026, and the Exchange Online enforcement of EAS 16.1 affecting mobile clients. Discussions focus on Microsoft 365 roadmap items, enterprise IT planning, and practical steps for users and administrators to manage these changes.
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    Outlook Mobile: Keep Meeting Invitations After RSVP on iOS and Android

    Outlook mobile is giving users a choice over what happens to meeting invitations after they respond: keep the original message in the inbox, or let Outlook remove it automatically. Microsoft’s roadmap record for 559794, “Outlook: Keep Invitations After Responding in Outlook Mobile,” describes a...
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    Outlook Mobile Follow Meeting Response Listed as Launched, but Support Docs Still Limit It to Windows and Web

    Outlook’s mobile roadmap now lists Follow as a meeting response for people who cannot attend but still want to stay informed. Microsoft’s roadmap record for item 557347 marks the Android and iOS feature as Launched, with general availability dated June 2026 for Worldwide Standard Multi-Tenant...
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    Purview DLP Policy Tips Launch for Outlook Mobile in GCC, GCC High and DoD

    Microsoft has marked roadmap item 491017, "Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook Mobile," as Launched. The detail that matters most is where it applies: the listed cloud instances are GCC, GCC High and DoD, the U.S. government environments. Government admins have...
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    Outlook Mobile Send Availability Return Planned for October 2026, Not Yet Launched

    Microsoft plans to bring Send Availability back to Outlook for iOS and Android, according to AI at Work roadmap item 570665. The entry lists October 2026 for general availability and says iOS users will be able to access more of the feature with a keyboard and VoiceOver. For anyone who has had...
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    Outlook Mobile Plans Duplicate Event Command for October 2026

    Microsoft plans to add a "duplicate event" command to Outlook for Android and Outlook for iOS. Users will open an existing calendar event's details and create a copy from there. Microsoft 365 roadmap entry 570666 lists the feature as in development, with general availability estimated for...
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    Outlook Mobile Adds Copilot Prepare Button to Up Next

    Microsoft has marked Roadmap ID 529850 as launched, bringing a Prepare action to the Up Next card in Outlook for Android and iOS. The change gives licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot users a direct path from Outlook’s imminent-meeting reminder to Copilot’s meeting-preparation view, rather than...
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    Outlook Mobile Purview DLP Tips Launch Disabled by Default

    Microsoft Purview DLP policy tips are now available in Outlook for iOS and Android, bringing warning, block, and override prompts to mobile email composition—but Microsoft has deliberately shipped the user-facing experience disabled by default. For administrators, the practical change is not...
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    Outlook Mobile Calendar DLP Enforcement Planned for September

    Microsoft plans to extend Purview Data Loss Prevention to calendar-event creation in Outlook for iOS and Android in September 2026, closing a mobile compliance gap that has left meeting subjects and invite descriptions outside the same user-facing controls already arriving for mobile email. The...
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    Outlook Mobile DLP Wait-on-Send Arrives September 2026

    Outlook for iOS and Android is scheduled to gain Microsoft Purview DLP wait-on-send support in September 2026, closing a compliance gap that Microsoft’s own documentation still describes as unsupported today. The Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry, ID 569718, lists the feature as in development for...
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    Outlook Mobile to Add Purview Attachment Label Inheritance

    Outlook for iOS and Android is slated to gain Microsoft Purview sensitivity-label inheritance from email attachments in September 2026, bringing a protection control already available in Outlook on the web and Windows clients to Microsoft’s mobile apps. Microsoft’s newly published Microsoft 365...
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    Outlook Mobile Adds OneDrive Picker for Signature Images

    Outlook for iOS and Android is scheduled to gain a OneDrive picker for images used in email signatures, a small mobile feature that removes one of the more awkward parts of maintaining a logo, headshot, or scanned sign-off across devices. Neowin first highlighted Microsoft 365 Roadmap item...
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    Outlook Mobile Drag-and-Drop Rescheduling Planned for August 2026 — Megathread

    Microsoft is preparing a small but potentially meaningful quality-of-life upgrade for Outlook on Android and iOS: the ability to reschedule calendar events by dragging them directly to a new time slot in the mobile calendar. The feature, listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 568367, is currently...
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    Outlook Lite Retirement: Move Before May 25, 2026 (Outlook Mobile or Web Options)

    Outlook Lite users should move before May 25, 2026, with most Microsoft 365, Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live, MSN, Exchange Online, and Google account users starting with Outlook Mobile, while older-device users and mixed-account households should test web access or alternate workflows before the...
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    Outlook Lite Android Retirement: Key Dates and What Users Must Do (2025–2026)

    Microsoft’s decision to retire Outlook Lite for Android is a small product move with an outsized meaning: it shows just how aggressively the company is narrowing its mobile mail strategy around a single flagship experience. For users who never even noticed Outlook Lite existed, that may sound...
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    Exchange Online Enforces EAS 16.1: Prepare for March 1, 2026

    Starting March 1, 2026, Exchange Online will refuse connections from mobile devices that speak an Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol older than EAS 16.1, a change announced by the Exchange Team that impacts native mail clients on phones and tablets and gives organizations a clear deadline to...
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    Microsoft to Retire Outlook Lite: Migrate to Outlook Mobile in 2025

    Microsoft will begin retiring the lightweight Outlook Lite Android app on October 6, 2025, blocking new installs that day as it directs users toward the full Outlook mobile client and consolidates engineering around a single, feature-rich Android email experience. Background Outlook Lite...
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    Outlook Lite Migration: Blocked Install Oct 6, 2025, Move to Outlook Mobile

    Microsoft is planning to pull the plug on Outlook Lite’s distribution this October, with multiple technology outlets reporting that new installations will be blocked beginning October 6, 2025, and users being nudged to move to the full Outlook mobile experience. Background / Overview Outlook...
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    October 2025 Outlook Lite Block: Migration to Outlook for Mobile

    Microsoft is reportedly planning to block fresh installations of Outlook Lite starting in October 2025 as it prepares a broader retirement of the app, forcing users who rely on a lightweight, battery-friendly client to either remain on an aging build or move to the full Outlook for Mobile...
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    Microsoft to Retire Outlook Lite for Android: Migration Paths & Impacts

    Microsoft appears to be winding down Outlook Lite for Android, with reports saying new installs will be blocked starting October 6, 2025 and existing users steered toward the full Outlook client — a change that reflects a broader push by Microsoft to consolidate mobile and desktop Outlook...
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    Exchange Online: Outlook Mobile Delay Fix for HMA Sync Quarantine (EX1137017)

    Microsoft has acknowledged and begun rolling out a fix for a troubling Exchange Online regression that left some Outlook mobile users unable to send or receive mail — a problem traced to Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) and tracked inside the Microsoft 365 Admin Center as incident EX1137017...