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The latest mobile apps killed mobile first when working with files
Hi,
I really enjoyed working only with mobile devices when we started with M365. On iOS the OneDrive app was paramount when organising files in SharePoint/Teams Sites. Easy up- and downloads, drag‘n drop. Move and copy all was there to manage a companies files on mobile devices even when only on mobile network connections.
But the upgrades that happened over the last 1-2 years completely break this kind of workflows. There is no really mobile-first paradigm visible anymore. The OneDrive app was worst. All the pretty well integration file management stuff is gone. No drag‘n drop. No useful integration into iOS Files app. Copying between OneDrive and SharePoint got a pain. Bulk operation just silently fail. Files get renamed without any warning (numbers get added to the name or are just increased so no one will ever find the file again). So just two simple usability examples that are a mess:
- to select multiple files in a folder you have to press the word ‚Select‘ that is not a button or something. This shows up like a column heading in the file view. Right beside ‚Name‘ and ‚Date Modified‘. Why are active user elements placed in table headings?
- If you browse into some SharePoint folders and quickly want to go back to your OneDrive files you either have to press the back button over and over again until your back to the top level view or you can press-hold the back button and then select ‚Files‘. Butthe latter brings you to the top level Library view and you still have to manually go to ‚Files‘. The old app design just had a top menu bar where views could easily be switched.
Am I the only one who wants to work on mobile devices? Does Microsoft still expect everyone to use a laptop and run desktop apps? Annoying.