Microsoft hopes to make it even simpler to seek out lately accessed recordsdata with its Microsoft 365 app for Android, and also you don’t even need to have opened them from a Microsoft app for them to look.

The announcement (opens in new tab) comes from Sudheender Srinivasan, Microsoft 365 cellular app group product supervisor, who launched the revised function that has been designed to floor recordsdata extra effectively.

Whereas particular workplace software program and apps for instruments like Phrase and Excel will stay essential for enhancing on the go, the corporate’s lately rebranded Microsoft 365 app ought to function the first go-to location for locating your work.

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Srinivasan defined that the ‘Current’ tab not solely surfaces recordsdata lately accessed by Microsoft’s apps, but in addition from third-party apps like Whatsapp and Gmail.

The replace will first be accessible to Microsoft Insiders, and particularly on model 16.0.16227.20076 or later of the Android app. It’s additionally rolling out steadily so some Insiders won’t get entry simply but.

To that finish, there may be at the very least one identified problem, specifically that it merely doesn’t work typically. Srinivasan explains:

“It’s possible you’ll want to shut and re-open the app couple of occasions earlier than the function works as anticipated.”

There’s at the moment no phrase on iOS availability, nevertheless if testing proves profitable it’s going to probably roll out to extra platforms, together with each smartphones and tablets.

A ‘Current’ tab is nothing new, nevertheless adjustments to code and certainly the implementation of AI all serve to make a employee’s life even simpler, and if we are able to discover that file we have been searching for with out the effort, then we’re all for it.

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