Teams will soon restore users’ previously selected tab, open side panels, and message selection when they return to a chat, channel, or Quick View within 30 minutes – helping them pick up right where they left off.
Microsoft will retire the Reuse Slides feature from PowerPoint for Windows and Mac. Users should instead use Copy & Paste or Drag & Drop to reuse slides.
SharePoint Online now supports Advanced Tenant Rename for up to 500,000 sites. This update enables large organizations to align their SharePoint domain URLs during rebranding, mergers, or consolidations while maintaining business continuity.
Microsoft is rolling out an update to how Live Captions and Real-Time Text (RTT) work in Teams for Windows and Mac. To better protect privacy, when transcription is turned off, captions and RTT will now only show the last five minutes of conversation instead of the entire meeting history.
Microsoft is retiring the Outlook Lite app for Android starting in October 2025, beginning with new users. Existing users can continue for a limited time before the app is fully retired in favor of Outlook Mobile.
Microsoft Teams is replacing the old Meeting options with a new Organizer Controls icon in the meeting toolbar, giving organizers and co-organizers quicker access to meeting settings and Teams Premium features.
Teams for Windows and Mac is getting an enhanced meeting search experience. Users can now filter by meeting name or participant and take direct actions from search results, such as joining, RSVPing, reviewing recaps, or opening meeting chats, making it faster to discover and follow up on meetings.
The ‘Mobile devices’ page in Outlook will be retired.
The Word feature “Transform to Web Page” will be retired. Users should use Microsoft Sway to create web content from Word files.
SharePoint is introducing Sharing Links for Videos, allowing easier video accessibility in shared pages. Users can generate secure links for videos, enhancing visibility even for those without site access.
Rendering of Loop components in Word for the web will be retired in September 2025, shifting to read-only placeholders.
OneDrive and SharePoint will allow users to add customizable text or image watermarks to PDF documents.
Teams allow users to customize keyboard shortcuts, enabling them to modify existing shortcuts and assign preferred key combinations.
Teams will soon introduce a countdown timer feature to help keep meetings on track. Participants can set a visual timer of up to 100 minutes, with alerts and color changes as time runs out.
Outlook on iOS and Android now allows users to easily create, delete, rename, reorder, and move folders directly within the app.
Outlook for iOS and Android now lets users choose custom icons for their accounts, making it easier to navigate between multiple accounts.
Teams Mobile will let users customize ringtones for different calls, improving how they manage alerts.
The Microsoft Lists mobile app for Android and iOS will be retired. Users should use the mobile browser experience, which offers more features and updates.
New Teams calling policy updates will soon make call recording and transcription features accessible by default for new users and those on the unmodified host policy.
Microsoft Teams will soon allow users to add multiple emoji reactions to a single message.