Microsoft Outlook releases minimise button for improved email experience

Microsoft is integrating a super useful button to the Outlook mobile app, allowing users to quickly minimise a draft email and task switch on the go. 

If you’re like those users, sending a lot of emails from your iPhone or Android device, it can be annoying to have to switch out of a draft email and find a date in your calendar, look at another email thread, and then have to navigate back to your drafts folder and resume your email.

Microsoft Outlook new minimise button

Outlook’s new minimise button will put all your recent drafts into a little floating stack so you can switch between composing an email and looking at other emails or calendar events without having to head back into the drafts folder.

On the other hand, Microsoft is testing this new minimise button in beta versions of Outlook on iOS and Android.

Apple has a similar method for task-switching during emails in its native Mail app for iOS, and it also supports multiple email drafts where you can simply swipe down to add them to a task-switching area.

Moreover, the minimise button in Outlook mobile is starting to be gradually released to all users, but you can sign up for the Microsoft 365 Insider programme if you want to get it a little early.