Outlook is preparing to receive major improvements on iOS and Android: voice commands arrive

A few days ago we saw the news that Microsoft was working on for some of its best-known applications. Edge, OneDrive and Outlook were preparing to receive new features in iOS and iPadOS. Now, in this news we are going to focus on the application for managing email

And Microsoft is preparing a series of important improvements and new features that will land in Outlook on both iOS and Android. Without discrimination of any kind by platform, the company has just made official the next news through the Outlook blog, news that includes voice commands, support for Cortana and email reactions.

New functions

iOS and Android benefit from a series of new functions that seek to make email management easier and, incidentally, make things a little more difficult for the competition. Among them, the reactions to an email stand out, so that based on the context of the email, Outlook offers a series of predetermined responses to an email in which, for For example, they ask us about our availability.

In addition, Outlook for iOS and Android is preparing to receive Cortana integration The gradual disappearance of the Microsoft assistant seems to be escaping professional environments. Now the arrival and integration of Cortana will allow you to schedule new events, call through Microsoft Teams and search for files, among others.

The third improvement that we will see arrive on both mobile platforms refers to the reactions through emojisWe will be able to add different reactions to the emails that arrive in our inbox and thus make the inbox have a more informal and above all more conversational touch.

Another of the improvements that comes is the integration with the weather forecast so that from Outlook it can be easier to plan our day on both iOS and Android. Rain or shine, you can get the current and forecast weather for your location at a glance.

Android or iOS centric

In addition, there are improvements focused on a specific operating system and for example in Android actionable notifications arrive so that when we receive a notification by email in Outlook for Android, we can perform a series of actions from the notification itself, be it File, Reply, Delete, default options to which others can be added such as Mark as read, Mark, Read and file or none.

In the case of iOS, there is an improvement such as drag and drop, so that for example we can carry files with this method from OneDrive to Outlook for iOS, an enhancement now available on iPad. In addition, Outlook now has a new widget that will display meetings and events.

These enhancements are already beginning to reach iOS and Android users, although as usual, the deployment is being progressive and staggered.

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