Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
New - start a Bing Chat conversation from anywhere in Launcher you find search
• Bing is your AI-powered copilot, and can provide helpful answers to your questions.
• Bing Chat functionality is available in regions supported by Bing Chat bing.com/new
• Bing Chat functionality requires Android 8.0 and up
Bug fixes
New - start a Bing Chat conversation from anywhere in Launcher you find search
• Bing is your AI-powered copilot, and can provide helpful answers to your questions.
• Bing Chat functionality is available in regions supported by Bing Chat bing.com/new
• Bing Chat functionality requires Android 8.0 and up
Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
- Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
- Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
- Refreshed Microsoft feed design and dialog style.
- Supported dynamic theming based on chosen wallpaper for Android 12 devices.
- Other known bugs and performance improvements were made.
- Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
- Transfer Microsoft Teams meeting through the Time widget for Surface Duo.
- Italy privacy requirements are now available in settings.
- Other known bugs and performance improvements were made.
- Transfer Microsoft Teams meeting through the Time widget for Surface Duo.
- Italy privacy requirements are now available in settings.
- Other known bugs and performance improvements were made.
- Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
- Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
- Make calendar event indicator color consistent with calendar color setting.
- Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
- Make calendar event indicator color consistent with calendar color setting.
- Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
- Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
Known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
- Promotional banner was added on News feed page for users who don't have Start app installed.
- Microsoft Rewards widgets now support Italy and Spain.
- Other known bugs were fixed, and UX improvements were made on feed.
- Launcher’s feed and overall design were updated.
- The News feed experience was enhanced.
- The toggle between work and personal apps was improved.
- Additional filters are now available to improve searching.
- Other known bugs were fixed, and improvements were made.
- Age restrictions on telemetry data were updated for existing child users and expanded to new countries.
- Banners may now appear under the personal and work tabs on the app screen.
- Some design features were updated, including icons and the navigation bar.
- Other known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
- Age restrictions on telemetry data were added.
- The cricket widget was removed.
- Other known issues were fixed for an improved experience.
- Easily turn on Android work profile while opening groups of work apps on Microsoft Duo.
- Other known bugs were fixed and performance improvements were made.
• Support long press to delete work folder for Android work profile enrolled users.
• French privacy requirements are now available in settings.
• The time widget will now update for daylight saving time.
• Bug fixed on notification display in dark theme.
• Bug fixed on home screen restore issue from lower app version.
• Other known bugs and performance improvements were made.
• Support long press to delete work folder for Android work profile enrolled users.
• French privacy requirements are now available in settings.
• The time widget will now update for daylight saving time.
• Bug fixed on notification display in dark theme.
• Bug fixed on home screen restore issue from lower app version.
• Other known bugs and performance improvements were made.
· App group visual updates on Surface Duo
· Bug fixed on home screen gesture on Surface Duo
· Bug fixed on folder preview display
· Bug fixed on app icon display on home screen
· Bug fixed on bottom page indication of dynamic feed
· General bug fixes and performance improvements
· Browser settings will no longer be affected by updates
· Issues with Time and Weather widgets have been corrected.
· Known bugs were fixed and performance updates were made for an improved experience.
- Support app group creation with drag-and-drop on Surface Duo
- Improvements on overview mode in page deletion on Surface Duo
- Support app group creation with two Edge apps on Surface Duo
- Work profile setup optimization via feed page
- Design improvements on error widget view to launch associated app
- Bug fix on icon pack reset after app re-start
- Bug fix on swipe up gesture to trigger shortcuts page
- Design improvement on app paddings in folder
- Support app group creation with drag-and-drop on Surface Duo
- Improvements on overview mode in page deletion on Surface Duo
- Support app group creation with two Edge apps on Surface Duo
- Work profile setup optimization via feed page
- Design improvements on error widget view to launch associated app
- Bug fix on icon pack reset after app re-start
- Bug fix on swipe up gesture to trigger shortcuts page
- Design improvement on app paddings in folder
- Work profile setup optimization via feed page
- Design improvement on app paddings in folder
- Bug fix on icon pack reset after app re-start
- Bug fix on swipe up gesture to trigger shortcuts page
- Battery usage and performance improvements
· Improvements on opening feed page in landscape and concurrent with another app on Surface Duo
· Support overview on single screen of Surface Duo
· Support screen time on Surface Duo
· Improvement on app group creation flow via context menu
· Multi-touch of app icon repositioning supported on home screen
· Support keyword search in Office apps
· Improvements on spacing and icons consistency in app drawer
· Fixed known bugs on app drawer, app icon size, folder swipe up gesture
· Improvements on opening feed page in landscape and concurrent with another app on Surface Duo
· Support overview on single screen of Surface Duo
· Support screen time on Surface Duo
· Improvement on app group creation flow via context menu
· Multi-touch of app icon repositioning supported on home screen
· Support keyword search in Office apps
· Improvements on spacing and icons consistency in app drawer
· Fixed known bugs on app drawer, app icon size, folder swipe up gesture
- Overview mode page arrangement improvement
- App Group placement optimization
- Add app to home screen placement optimization
- Pagination UI improvement
- Timeline deprecated
- Family parental controls deprecated
- Overview mode page arrangement improvement
- App Group placement optimization
- Add app to home screen placement optimization
- Pagination UI improvement
- Timeline deprecated
- Family parental controls deprecated
• Updated app icons and font
• Improved app folder layout and gesture support
• Improved performance
• Addressed known bugs
• Updated app icons and font
• Improved app folder layout and gesture support
• Improved performance
• Addressed known bugs
• Updated app icons and font
• Improved app folder layout and gesture support
• Improved performance
• Addressed known bugs
• New Microsoft feed design
• Support landscape mode
• Beautiful wallpaper
• Improved performance
• New Microsoft feed design
• Support landscape mode
• Beautiful wallpaper
• Improved performance
• New Microsoft feed design
• Support landscape mode
• Beautiful wallpaper
• Improved performance
General bug fixes and performance improvements
- Cortana en-us services in Microsoft Launcher will be turned off by the end of April
- General bug fixes and product improvements have been made
- To continue using speech features like Bing voice search, Tasks voice input, and Notes voice input, upgrade to Launcher 5.11.3 or higher now.
What's new for 5.11.2:
- General bug fixes and performance improvements
What's new for 5.11:
- Folder and app drawer are more consistent with Launcher theme
- You can now hide new apps in app drawer
- General bug fixes and performance improvements
What's new for 5.9.0:
- Live date update is now available on your original calendar app icon, and Microsoft Launcher calendar icon is also updated with a cleaner look.
- General bug fixes on dock, wallpaper, calendar card, and performance improvements.
What's new for 5.8:
- Newly installed apps can be added to home screen automatically for devices running Android 8.0 and above.
- Search experience is optimized so the local results are easier to access.
- Microsoft Intune Fully Managed Devices Support- IT pros now can configure home screen experiences for managed devices, including wallpaper, home screen apps, app icons placement, and feed availability.
- Adaptive icons support - Now you can have the same look for your app icons with multiple choices for shapes.
- You are able to join Microsoft Teams meeting in Calendar card in your Feed.
- You can see your flagged emails from your Microsoft Account or work/school account in Tasks card.
- Launcher settings experience has been optimized so you can discover and find what you're looking for quickly.
What's new for Launcher v5.4.1:
• Try out our new Cricket widget to keep track of your favorite teams in the Cricket World Cup!
• Improvements to status bar and system navigation to match theme
• Android Work Profile: customers can view Personal and Work apps separately in the App Drawer.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements
What's new for 5.3:
- Time/Weather widget redesign- Now you can have multiple widgets for multiple locations with redesigned detail page!
- UX refinements to the Home Screen, Dock and Search widget
- Tasks card now supports "My Day" from Microsoft To Do
- News tab now supports "Technology" as a news interest
- Work profile customers can now get access to their work apps
- Beta community link in Settings changed to Microsoft Tech Community
What's new for 5.3:
- Time/Weather widget redesign- Now you can have multiple widgets for multiple locations with redesigned detail page!
- UX refinements to the Home Screen, Dock and Search widget
- Tasks card now supports "My Day" and "Flagged Emails" from Microsoft To Do
- News tab now supports "Technology" as a news interest
- Work profile customers can now get access to their work apps
- Beta community link in Settings changed to Microsoft Tech Community
What's new for 5.2.1
- Non-full screen folders for easier one-handed use and large-screen devices
- Microsoft Rewards daily deal card allows you to earn Rewards for using Microsoft Launcher and completing other tasks!
- Long-press shortcuts enabled on icons even when the home screen is locked.
- Customers can send a CPU profile through "Contact Us" in Settings in case of performance issues
- Launcher font size will now respect the system font size
What's new for v5.2:
- Non-full screen folders for easier one-handed use and large-screen devices
- Microsoft Rewards daily deal card allows you to earn Rewards for using Microsoft Launcher and completing other tasks!
- Long-press shortcuts enabled on icons even when the home screen is locked.
- Customers can send a CPU profile through "Contact Us" in Settings in case of performance issues
- Launcher font size will now respect the system font size
What's new for 5.1.1:
1. Consent for Location based service Terms and Conditions for Korean market.
2. Bug fixes.
What's new for 5.1.0
- Track your screen time, app usage and phone unlocks with the new screen time card
- To Do card now shows tasks from apps like Microsoft To Do, Outlook and Skype
- Notes card now shows your Notes from Sticky Notes on Windows, Outlook and OneNote mobile
- Cortana now has an updated card with commute/traffic
- "Hey Cortana" as a beta feature for the en-us market
- Cortana support in the es-ES market
- Bing mini-answers shows you quick answers for stocks and currency
What‘s new for 5.0.2:
- fix the problem of wallpaper becoming black on some Android P devices;
- minor release including crash and bug fixing for 5.0.1 release.
Here’s another major update for 5.0:
• Feed- Updated Feed navigation for your Glance, News and Timeline tabs. You can now access your Feed settings from the top of your Feed
• News- Updated News experience powered by Microsoft News
• Timeline on mobile- Activities from your PC and phone now can be seen on your Android phone
• Cortana- Use Cortana to send emails with multi-turn emailing. Cortana is now supported in the DE-DE market
• Family- Parents can now view their kids’ real-time location
What‘’s new for 4.13.1:
- minor release including crash and bug fixing for 4.13.0 release.
- Now you can drag and drop widgets to and from the Launcher Feed. Widgets also no longer have card headers when placed in the Feed.
- Updates to the calendar card let you add a new event with one click when you no longer have any more events for the day.
- Tuning fixes for new app drawer animation.
- Parents can now ask Cortana for the location of their kids via voice (ex. “where are my kids?”).
- Cortana can now read incoming SMS messages and now supports en-IN.
what's new for v4.12:
- Folder and app icon gestures (swipe to open or click to launch).
- Choose how to use the last row of expanded dock: Apps, pinned contacts, folders, search bar or widgets;
- Parents can enable web filtering through the Family card.
- Folders in the app drawer are now sorted alphabetically.
- UI improvements: Animation adjustments; blur effect as an option; App badges in the app drawer;
- Fully support Android 8.0 and remove support for 4.0.X and 4.1
Hot fix release, including some crash fix and bug fix per user feedback in v4.11.
What's new in v4.11
- Family: parents can show/hide kids in the Family card;
- Improvements to reading news articles with Microsoft Edge browser;
- Toggle to hide page indicator on home screen;
- Cortana: supports multi-turn SMS + calling
- UI improvements: welcome page, settings page, widgets & context menu;
- Support for removing screens in overview mode via drag & drop
What's new for v4.10.1:
- minor release including crash and bug fixing for v4.10.0.
what's new for v4.10:
- Microsoft Family: Parents can view the last known location and app activity for their children's Android phone running launcher! (4.4+ for parent devices & 5.0+ for child devices)
- Visual Search: Use the camera through Search bar to recognize celebrities, landmarks, apparel and more! (US only)
- Microsoft Rewards: see Rewards balance in the Feed and earn points for using Bing Search;(US only)
- Wallpaper UX improvements and bug fixes;
What’s new for v4.9:
- Improved Home screen import logic
- Sort your apps alphabetically in folders
- Display names of apps or folders in your dock
- Customizable gesture for pressing the Home button from the Home screen
- New gesture option that lets you quickly lock your Home screen
What's new for v4.8.0:
- Support app sorting for Korean/Japanese/Russian languages in app drawer ;
- New first time experience for mobile connected users from Windows setting;
- Cortana integration improvements:
* Improve app launch experience;
* supports more device settings like WiFi, flight mode, etc;
* support navigation query;
- Bug fixing, code clean up, crash fix and performance tuning
What's new for v4.8.0:
- Support app sorting for Korean/Japanese/Russian languages in app drawer ;
- New first time experience for mobile connected users from Windows setting;
- Cortana integration improvements:
* Improve app launch experience;
* supports more device settings like WiFi, flight mode, etc;
* support navigation query;
- Bug fixing, code clean up, crash fix and performance tuning
What's new for 4.7.5:
4.7.5 is a quality release focusing on bug fixes and performance improvements
- Fixed top crashes and App Not Responding Errors;
- Support applying icon pack over single custom-set icons;
- Adjustments to wallpaper settings experience;
- Fixed several badge count issues;
- Performance/memory/CPU improvements
What's new for v4.6:- Now Cortana, your personal digital assistant comes in the Microsoft Launcher: make a call, schedule meetings, change wallpaper, Continue on PC or read the headlines! ( en-US, en-GB, en-CA, en-AU, zh-CN )- Share Launcher via NFC & QR code;- Support Arabic/RTL languages- Intune integration supports remote data-wiping;- Choose contacts to display on your People card- Place widgets into the dock- Pin searched app/contact to home screen
What's new for v4.6:- Now Cortana, your personal digital assistant comes in the Microsoft Launcher: make a call, schedule meetings, change wallpaper, Continue on PC or read the headlines! ( en-US, en-GB, en-CA, en-AU, zh-CN )- Share Launcher via NFC & QR code;- Support Arabic/RTL languages- Intune integration supports remote data-wiping;- Choose contacts to display on your People card- Place widgets into the dock- Pin searched app/contact to home screen
What's new for v4.6:- Now Cortana, your personal digital assistant comes in the Microsoft Launcher: make a call, schedule meetings, change wallpaper, Continue on PC or read the headlines! ( en-US, en-GB, en-CA, en-AU, zh-CN )- Share Launcher via NFC & QR code;- Support Arabic/RTL languages- Intune integration supports remote data-wiping;- Choose contacts to display on your People card- Place widgets into the dock- Pin searched app/contact to home screen
What's new for v4.5:- Let meeting attendees know you’re running late from the calendar card.- Employees whose enterprises leverage Microsoft Intune’s data protection policies can now use the Microsoft Launcher for viewing corporate data.- Adjust icon size in the app drawer, dock and home screen.- Set wallpapers for home and lock screen ( 7.0+)- Add blank pages in vertical mode;- Recurring reminders;- Oreo shortcuts creation;
What's new for v4.5:- Let meeting attendees know you’re running late from the calendar card.- Employees whose enterprises leverage Microsoft Intune’s data protection policies can now use the Microsoft Launcher for viewing corporate data.- Adjust icon size in the app drawer, dock and home screen.- Set wallpapers for home and lock screen ( 7.0+)- Add blank pages in vertical mode;- Recurring reminders;- Oreo shortcuts creation;
What's new for MS Launcher 4.4:- Enable creating folders in app drawer;- Batch mode on home screen and app drawer - long press menu;- Enable/disable dock;- App launching animation;- Pill count improvements on Line, BBM, Instagram, Yammer, Textra, WhatsApp and more;- Weather / Time widget refinement to mitigate weather not refresh issue;
What's new for 4.3.1:Hot fix release for 4.3 to address some of the top user feedback;
What's new for Microsoft Launcher version 4.3:- Support apps grid layout up to a maximum of 12x12 and move apps/widget half grid;- New customers can migrate their previous layout or restore an old layout;- Drag/drop apps will not enter edit mode;- UI adjustment: Improve app name text wrapping and prevent truncation & folder icon/shape edit, dock support more than 5 apps, search bar default on bottom; Apply theme on settings page;- Crash & bug fixes, performance tuning;
Microsoft Launcher 4.2.1 is a minor release for 4.2 which contains:- Fix for devices experiencing delays when pressing the home button- Crash and bug fixes from 4.2- Fix for News card category selection issue
What's new for Microsoft Launcher v4.2:- Several bug and crash fixes from v4.1;- Performance improvements for CPU and visual performance;- Custom slider for theme transparency;- Unified gestures in all feature pages- Date/Time format fix for European markets;- Swipe up and down support on vertical apps page mode;
3.8.1 is a minor release including some adjustments below:- Improve double tap to lock screen: add timeout option- crash and app freeze fix
Announcing Arrow Launcher’s 3.8 release!This release contains exciting additions to Arrow.- News: the redesigned News card- People: See your Outlook contacts in People card and let Arrow help you merge duplicate contacts.- Calendar: Redesigned Calendar card shows your upcoming appointments.- Setting: Reset Arrow settings to default settings- Folder spacing/layout improvements- Additional bug fixes
Announcing Microsoft Arrow Launcher's 3.7 release!• People: Choose between multiple actions for contacts on the People card.• People: Let Arrow handle the address book de-duping/merging!• Search: Enable reorder local search results in Search.• Settings: The Settings page is now re-organized for a cleaner look and feel.• Account Sign In: New customers can sign in with a Microsoft Account in setup experience.• Bug fixes on Status bar, Calendar, Search, Tablet, Hidden apps and Auto update.
- Option to hide/show system status bar- Show Outlook email in Recent page( only apply to Outlook app sign in user )- Support dragging apps from frequent apps card- Enable checkbox and image auto fit in Notes card/page;- UI adjustment- Bugs fix, stabilization/performance improvement
What is new with Arrow 3.5:- Search upgrade with voice search & QR/barcode search- More responsive search experience- New card: Arrow Hub card, your one-stop PC to mobile file transfer center;- New card: MSN News card with category selections;- Support more feature on backup & restore: Widgets/icon pack and more settings;- Voice input for Reminder & Notes- Option to turn off recent apps in app drawer- Stability and bug fixes