Microsoft is including a small however very helpful and handy function to Outlook on cellular gadgets that makes it simpler to modify between totally different duties within the app when writing an electronic mail. In a nutshell, the function helps you to reduce your present draft and maintain it as a small button on the backside of the display, able to pop again in your show from every other a part of the app, corresponding to one other electronic mail, calendar, or contact.

Beforehand, such actions required closing your electronic mail, saving it as a draft, after which returning it to the Drafts folder. Now, nevertheless, writing emails on cellular gadgets is extra intuitive and “much less disruptive,” as Microsoft says within the announcement submit.

Right here is how the brand new reduce function works:

1. When drafting a brand new electronic mail, discover the reduce button within the upper-right nook of the display. It seems just like the reduce button in Home windows or macOS.
2. Faucet the button, and your draft will collapse right into a small circle button within the bottom-right nook. When you have a number of emails minimized, the button will present a counter.

3. Navigate to every other a part of Outlook you want, then faucet the minimized button once more to revive your emails.

The power to attenuate emails in Outlook for iOS and Android is now steadily rolling out to all customers within the Secure Channel. It has been out there to beta testers for a while, and Microsoft is now able to roll it out to all customers. Notice that new options typically take extra time to reach since Microsoft releases new options steadily to make sure a secure rollout and forestall widespread bugs.

You’ll be able to obtain Outlook for iOS from the App Retailer and Outlook for Android from the Google Play Retailer.