Microsoft Lists: Mobile apps for iOS and Android will retire

This seems to be a theme of late… Microsoft retiring features and applications for various reasons. The latest retirement is the Microsoft Lists mobile application in iOS and Android, and it’ll be completely shut down by mid-November, 2025. There is no reason listed as to why, but I’m going to guess that the mobile app for Microsoft Lists never really gained the traction they expected when they released Microsoft Lists as a whole. To be clear, this doesn’t affect Microsoft Lists in general… only the ability to access and use it on the mobile app.

Here’s the information provided by Microsoft:

Getting a jumpstart on a Microsoft List using templates

Back in the olden days, creating a new list in a SharePoint site was pretty much a case of naming a bare-bones new list and then starting to build out the list, field by field. Heaven help you if you needed some ideas on what to do to set up a list like an issue tracker… However, Microsoft has really improved the process of starting a new list by the use of templates! Here’s what that looks like…

Seeing (and clearing) applied filters in a Microsoft list

We just had this new feature roll out in our SharePoint tenant, and it’s pretty cool. When you filter your view on column values, you will now see what the filters are at the top of the view, as well as a button to clear all the filters at once! Here’s what it looks like…

Creating a Board View in a SharePoint list

This is a new feature that I’ve been waiting for, and Sandra found that it hit our tenant the other day! You can now create a Board View for a SharePoint list. Imagine having a kanban-style view where you can drag and drop items between columns and have the status update automatically. Here’s how it works…

Turning off comments in Microsoft Lists

Back in July, Microsoft added the ability to include comments on Microsoft list items. While I like the idea of being able to comment on list content, it may be something that doesn’t work well for certain styles of work or list content. To remove that distraction or avoid overlooking comments, you can turn off comments in a list. Here’s how you do that…

Using @mentions in Microsoft List comments

he addition of commenting in a list item was a great addition to Microsoft Lists, but it wasn’t easy to know when a particular comment might need your attention. That’s been addressed with the ability to use @mentions in a comment so that the person mentioned will get notified. This is how that works…

Using the Gallery View in a Microsoft List

As part of all the recent changes to lists in SharePoint Online, there’s a new view format you might want to check out… the Gallery View. This is an interesting way to display list data, especially if it involves images. Here’s how it works…

Adding comments to SharePoint Online List items

One of the latest features that’s been added to SharePoint Online (and Microsoft) Lists is the ability to comment on a particular list item. Much like when you add comments to Word or Excel documents, you can now do the same for list items. Here’s how it works…