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Improved margins in OneNote for Android and iOS

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Bola_Soneye
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Aug 14, 2025
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! I’m Bola Soneye, a Product Manager on the OneNote team. I’m excited to share that we’ve addressed a long-standing formatting request for mobile users: Pages created on And...
A screenshot of two Microsoft OneNote notebook pages showing Before and After how the margins adjust to be wider/cleaner when created in OneNote for Android and iOS.
Updated Aug 14, 2025
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Brendoon
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Sep 30, 2025

Curious. I had assumed this sudden appearance of a left indent was a bug.

When a cellphone screen is only 70mm wide, a 10mm margin is a considerable loss of real estate.

The previous 3mm margin was more functional.

Actual 'page formatting' is a useful function when on the pc version, but the basic android version serves in a simple note-taking capacity.

The margin needs to be small in order to use the whole screen, I find.