What’s new in Microsoft Planner – August 2025

The disappointment I felt when I read through this blog... Once again, Microsoft continues to develop its AI Project Manager and remains quiet on the status key features that are needed to make Planner a cohesive and useful project planning system:

• Any features that basic Planner has, Premium Planner should have (i.e., integrated chat, ability to view on mobile app, etc).
• My team has complained multiple times about the inability to edit Premium Plan tasks in the My Tasks tabs-- something that really should have been available upon the initial merging of the Planner and Project. I would also like to be able to see a Buckets column on the My Task page. 
• Portfolios, while a good concept, is not very useful for my Team because you can't sort rows or link to the Plan. 
• The My Plans page is weak and needs an upgrade. No option to view all Plans you are apart of and sort them. The search feature will often say it can't find a plan and prompts me to click a "Search more Plans" button and then it will find it. Why doesn't it perform a search of all plans initially?
• Ability to prevent others from deleting tasks or Plans and the ability to restore tasks or Plans.