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puipt
Copper Contributor
Dec 26, 2023

No way to stop the "For You" section on OneDrive app?

I'm using the iOS version of OneDrive app.

 

The "For You" section is totally UNnecessary & redundant, and may cause embarrassing moments such as:

 

- When one wants to show his/her boss or clients a file, he/she opens the app but his/her funny face pops up unexpectedly.

 

- When one is meeting with a client and opens the app, a commercially private image of the client's competitor shows up.

 

- During one's honeymoon trip, he/she occasionally opens the app and his/her EX photo pops up.

 

The app is supposed to be storing backups. The images I want to keep backup copies doesn't mean that I want to see them unexpectedly.

 

Problems:

1. There is no way I can stop this function. That means I have no control over the behaviour of my files.

I have went to the support forum and contacted support team. No solution I can get.

 

2. This function is a total duplication of another app on the device (you know it's on iOS), but a worse version. No value added at all.

 

3. It eats up resources unnecessarily.

 

There are tons of user experiences that the develop team can improve. Why don't the team put efforts into improving them rather than adding functions that is not in line with the identity of the app.

So often I encounter bad user experiences and hoped for improvements.

    • puipt's avatar
      puipt
      Copper Contributor
      Thank you and posted on the blog.
      I've already sent feedback but was "suggested" to post on techcommunity so that the development will see it.
      • Mike Williams's avatar
        Mike Williams
        Steel Contributor
        I've never seen any evidence that Microsoft developers look at techcommunity. At best you'll get the occasional junior product support person on here.

        The Feedback Portal is the theoretical locus for all this, but since Microsoft closed down its predecessor UserVoice without paying attention to years of all the feedback around serious issues, well.... Obviously following in Google's footsteps of abandoning products and forums. (often linking the help on live products to forums it has already closed down!)

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