Today we are pleased to announce the availability of the Whiteboard app for iOS, and the commercial preview of the Whiteboard app on the web. Building on the Whiteboard app for Windows 10 released in July, these releases move us closer to achieving our vision of a collaborative space for ideation that is accessible from any device and integrates seamlessly into the collaboration workflows teams already use.
Whether on Windows 10, iOS, or the web, Microsoft Whiteboard provides an infinite canvas where imagination has room to grow. On your Windows or iOS device, you can draw, type, add a sticky note or an image, stack things up, move them around. And from any device with an up-to-date web browser, you can now open and view your boards, and add and erase ink.
Whiteboard brings every member of a team together,whether they’re huddled around a wall-size touchscreen or workingindependentlyfrom their ownlaptops, tablets, or mobile devices.* And because Whiteboard automatically saves your boards to the cloud, you can always pick up right where you left off, whenever, wherever – andnow from a broader range of devices.
To start using Whiteboard on your iOS device running iOS 9 or later, download the app for free from the Apple App Store. To start using the web app (commercial preview), your IT admin first needs to enable the service; more information available here. To start using Whiteboard on your Windows 10 device, download the app for free at the Microsoft Store.
*The Microsoft Whiteboardapps for Windows 10 and iOS areavailable for all users; Microsoft Account or Office 365 account required. For commercial users, the Whiteboard web app (preview) makes their whiteboardsaccessible fromother devices.
@ANdrew Proudman@Mohamed Gamal@Kentrepid@Renato Pereira@Mark Marriottwe're working to bring Whiteboard to all devices, including Android devices. Today, commercial customers can access the Whiteboard on Android via the Whiteboard web app that's currently in preview. We plan to roll it out to a broader audience later this year. We are also working on a native experience for Android, stay tuned.
@Aim Zaab thanks for the feedback. We're working on supporting conditional access (Intune) for iOS devices (including adding Whiteboard to the list of approved apps). We plan to have it available to customers in the upcoming months.
Hi. Is there a way to fix this? Whenever I try to draw, the bottom menu keeps switching. When it does that, I cannot draw on the board. I’m using the iPhone version of Microsoft WhiteBoard.
@dhood82 Thanks for your interest in bringing Whiteboard to GCC Tenants. GCC support is on our roadmap and we will be sharing timing in the coming months. We're also in the process of adding Whiteboard to the public Microsoft 365 roadmap.
still nothing regarding Android release? Web interface works, but having to use a browser that uses a lot of screen space for its bars makes it very unappealing to use
For our GCC customers like us, does Microsoft have any kind of a reference guide on what features are not available? We are learning to reach out more frequently when we see the generic "An error occurred while trying to save your settings." or something similar to check if this is supported in GCC. However, keeping track is tough as we generally refer to the MS roadmap guide but some items just don't show any updates.
As I understand, the MS Whiteboard works as external app installed on Windows despite MS TEAM and cannot be used when you invite external users to your meeting.
Just over a year ago you let us know that the team was working on bringing Whiteboard web client to a broader audience, as well as to release an Android client, estimating that you were targeting end of 2019 for such goals.
As of 6th May 2020, I believe, Whiteboard Web Client is still exclusive for commercial customers, and that there is no Android app published in the Google Play marketplace.
It would be great if you could share with us if those goals are still on the roadmap, and in that case, what's the current timeline estimation?
Got addicted to the Whiteboard app on my Surface Book 2, and now I want to be able to use it in all my devices! I'm sure you understand me!
You can install Whiteboard using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) using a downloaded appx from Store for Business. We highly recommend doing an online license type (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/acquire-apps-microsoft-store-for-business) and then deploying that via SCCM. Once installed, an online licensed appx will automatically sync with the store and keep updating.
If your users are fully blocked from accessing the store, you can download an offline licensed appx and manually deploy new versions each time the app is updated (about once a month).
There are still some concerns about the MS whiteboard.
1. MS Whiteboard having synchronization issues between IOS devices and PC, new input contexts did not saved and returned sync errors. Tried sign-in/sign out but did not get solved.
2. Is there a way to recover back the data because sync errors happened.
3. are all whiteboard data stored on user's one drive?
4. any material to show the common issues of MS Whitebaord and troubleshooting guideline.
@Ricky_Su Thanks for reaching out and sorry to hear you are having this issue. I will connect with you offline and have the team look into this for you. Data is automatically saved in Azure cloud. Here are some useful links that should be helpful. Enable Microsoft Whiteboard and Microsoft Whiteboard Help
In order to use Microsoft Whiteboard to do presentation, any recommended 3rd party to make a presentation? Sort like touch pad or touch panel with stylus?
@CalvynLee Thank you for reaching out, we don't have specific recommendations for devices or attachments. Please see below YouTube video link for some tips on how to use Whiteboard with mouse and keyboard, hope this might help :) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCsC99oHc90.
@jesusiniesta Thanks for reaching out and great to hear you are using Whiteboard so much :) - a feature rich Web app as well as an Android app is still indeed on the roadmap for later this year. Please stay tuned for further announcements on this!
@Ricky_Su Thanks for reaching out and sharing your valuable feedback :) - a feature rich Web app is our most prioritized item on the Whiteboard roadmap followed by external/guest access!. We hope to make further announcements soon.
@WYellow Thank you for reaching out and for your patience on waiting for the Android app - this is most certainly on the roadmap for the next few months please do stay tuned for further announcements. We will also be launching our new Web app very soon with the added capabilities of sticky notes and text. More to come and share very soon here on Tech community blog :)
@Renato Pereira - Thanks for reaching out, we are in the process of updating our M365 Roadmap within the next few weeks so hope to share this very soon :)
Hi @Jasmin_Rashid, I'm also desperately waiting for Android version, I have many students who use android based devices and the web versión of whiteboard is too limited, do you have any idea when it is going to be available?
@danielgrant0725@JFizzell@Leorizo Thank you for your continued patience on this - we are working on a timeline for the end of 2020 for the release of an Android app. You can also refer to our M365 Roadmap https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap for further updates on additional features that are coming to Whiteboard in the next coming months :)
@Ulrich Wilsenach Thank you for the feedback and we do indeed intend to support an Android app - its on our roadmap for later this year :) We appreciate our users' patience as we continue to develop and enhance Whiteboard where it is accessible to all.