Add separate email and calendar icons to home screen.
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Hey!
You can now add separate email and calendar shortcut widgets to your device home screen. This will allow for one-tap access to the mail and calendar parts of the app.
Having trouble finding the feature? Let us know through the Help section of the app. You may reach them by going to the app’s Setting > Help and Feedback > Contact Support.
Thank you again for your support, we look forward to hearing more of your ideas very soon.
All the best,
The Outlook Mobile Team
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148 comments
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JC
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The shortcut and widget that are supposed to allow Outlook to open straight the the calendar just open email.
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Colin Melia
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Be able to go straight to calendar from MS launcher icon instead of having to back out of things to get to calendar button
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Hugo
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You can create a direct access to the calendar by tapping and holding on the outlook app icon, and tapping and holding again on the 'Show calendar" context menu option... as you hold it, place it whenever you want. You may need newer Android versions (tested under Android 10).
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Anonymous
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Also, please, link Tasks to Calendar.
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Leo Melville
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Microsoft, I am still confused. It's great you have merged ideas in order to set a "Completed" status but my idea was never / not about separate widget for outlook calendar. What I want / need is a new shortcut icon or app for Calendar. It's crazy that I have to open Outlook app to select the calendar icon on the bottom right to get to my calendar. While I/m still at it, it makes little sense to go to search to find a contact from my Microsoft People collection. Do you guys use cell phones???. Please deconstruct Outlook app for Android and create three new apps, viz: (1) Outlook Mail (2) Outlook Calendar and (3) Outlook People. I don't want third party apps that aren't always friendly or work fully with Microsoft features. I Want Microsoft Apps for my phone.
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Erman YÜCEL
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shortcut for calendar
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Howard Gould
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yes need to be able to pin calendar to home screen how can you not include this option????
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Plammen Kazakov
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I use Outlook instead of default system calendar and email apps. I need the two icons on the home screen: calendar and email. I had to download a third-party app to create a shortcut (Shortcut Maker)... funny enough I found that they actually have it as a preset option in their personalized category because of the high demand... they also offer the option to creat shortcut to specific inbox which is also nice... I just still find it stupid to have to install a third-party app to have a proper calendar icon on my home screen for my daily use... it's not by default, it should be an option in settings: "show calendar icon to home screen"
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Leo Melville
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Shortcut or Calendar icon which is separate to Outlook icon. Widgets take up to much room and cannot be included in a home screen folder.
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Laurence
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Have separate icons for calendar & email on Android one
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joseph karam
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I want to be able to pin the calendar to hame screen and set it as default calendar.
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Susan Yamani
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used to be able to do this, why not now?
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Mrs Edna Pearson
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Need icon on my phone for outlook
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tzagorski@lcps.net
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On my Galaxy S9+ I was able to add my Outlook calendar to my home screen but cant find a way to add it on my Galaxy S10+. Can anyone help??
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Bob
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OK, I see how now. You have to use the widget feature and add it as a widget, not just Outlook app.
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Bob
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How do you do it? I had it set up, then it broke, now can't remember.
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Anton Bogomyagkov
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One button to start calendar from initial screen.
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Anonymous
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contacts
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Adham Khairy
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Can we have a shortcut that opens the app directly to the calendar view? Not a very big fan of the widget
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Patrick Fuller
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Scenario on mobile: writing email to arrange meeting. Need to check calendar for suggestions. Switch to calendar... and the email saves automatically in drafts. This happens every time you consult the calendar. Can you put calendar on a separate app so that it both windows remain active?
