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Microsoft Outlook Introduces Lite Version of Android App

Pradeep_Elavarasan's avatar
Aug 01, 2022

Editor's note, September 6th, 2022: This blog has been updated to reflect the availability of Outlook Lite in Google Play Store worldwide.

Editor's note, August 19th, 2022: This blog has been updated to reflect the early access availability for additional markets.

 

 

Outlook is used by millions of people daily for their email and calendaring needs across the world. Yet, there are a wide range of devices that do not have all the capabilities required to get the best Outlook experience on their smartphone.


We are thrilled to announce the availability of Outlook Lite to empower more individuals, schools, universities, and small businesses with a solution for their lightweight mobile devices. Outlook Lite brings the main features of Microsoft Outlook in a smaller-sized app with fast performance for lightweight devices on any network.

 

Outlook Lite is now available worldwide in the Play Store.

 

What is Outlook Lite?

  • The Outlook you love - Outlook Lite has the core experience of Outlook including access to emails, calendar, contacts, and more
  • Small - Outlook Lite app is about 5 MB in download size and uses extremely low storage on your phone
  • Fast - Optimized to run fast on all Android devices including devices with 1GB RAM
  • Low battery usage - Uses less phone resources, saving your battery
  • All networks - Works well on all networks, including 2G and 3G networks worldwide

Outlook Lite supports Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live, MSN, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Exchange Online accounts.

 

 

 

With Outlook Lite, our goal is to make Outlook more accessible to users who are on lightweight mobile devices across the world empowering them to achieve more.

 

Try Outlook Lite now and share your feedback!

 

Updated Sep 06, 2022
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34 Comments

  • fjleon's avatar
    fjleon
    Copper Contributor

    no dark mode. why? this wastes more battery on oled devices

    no US support. why? there are more 2G/3G users in the US compared to all users in all those other countries combined. what about choice? let us choose which app we want to use

  • Dandrea2Work's avatar
    Dandrea2Work
    Copper Contributor

    I really hope they will consider this for USA.  We've got a lot of older tablets that we will be replacing over the next few years (and get them on a 3 year rotating replacement cycle) but this would fix our email issues on them until then since we can't run the full Outlook  client (all on Android 7 or older).

  • sstrausbaugh's avatar
    sstrausbaugh
    Brass Contributor

    From the M365 Admin Center:

    The Microsoft Outlook team recently announced the upcoming general availability of Outlook Lite app for Android devices in August 2022. We wanted to inform customers using app protection policies (APP, also known as MAM) on their Android devices that Outlook Lite does not currently support APP/MAM.

    To prevent Android users from accessing your organization’s resources through the Outlook Lite app, enable a CA policy for Office 365 apps. See https://docs.microsoft.com/mem/intune/protect/app-based-conditional-access-intune.

    What if I WANT to allow users to choose between regular Outlook Mobile and Outlook Lite? I have to reconfigure my APP policies because Microsoft released another half-complete app. 

     

     

  • Kris_Deb_e2e's avatar
    Kris_Deb_e2e
    Iron Contributor

    Does it support subfolders new email notifications? If no, can we expect this feature coming in this century? Talk my emails, emoji, predictive texts, lots of stuff but I'm still not aware of any emails delivered outside of my inbox folder. And I'm forced to use Outlook mobile because in our company they just switched off EAS support.