Microsoft Outlook 4+

I have lots of emails from a few years back, some from the same sender that I have not deleted, with some important and needed emails, even though there are other functions like “sweep” on the Outlook website, but I keep getting notifications on the app telling me that my inbox is 92% etc full - aside from “archive” there should be another place on the app to store wanted/needed emails and this, along with everything you do on the app, should be updated on the website (and vice versa) should be automatically synced on the website and vice versa without always needing to log onto the website - the functions for mass/bulk deletion of emails should be totally redesigned for those of us who are not as disciplined enough to delete unwanted emails at once without opening - a scan for potentially unwanted emails should be put in as a function with a checkbox to keep certain emails and send them to another folder, then just delete the rest on the visible page number

However awful Outlook is on desktop, you’re pretty much stuck with it in corporate Windows environment. So using it on mobile too kind of makes sense for convenience and consistency.

Over the last couple of years I was willing to put up with its bugs and limitations - all complicated apps inevitably have them.

However I finally bit the bullet, removed it today and switched to a separate but better apps for email, calendar, and contacts. The reason is that it yesterday (for the second time this year) deleted a year’s email. It is ridiculously easy to brush the ‘select all’ and delete icons without realising it. Before you notice, your emails are disappearing before your eyes, with the deletions being synchronised across all devices linked to your accounts. So for 2nd time this year I have wasted hours going message by message through 3 sets of recycle bins trying to work out which messages were intentionally or unintentionally deleted, and restoring accordingly. Poor for an app that is supposed to increase productivity.

The calendar on this app is beyond awful. Good luck scrolling to a point in the future and trying to do…..anything. You can scroll down a month, but it will just ping you back to where you were time and time again. Click on a date you’ve managed to painfully scroll to in June? Nope! Back to February you idiot. Deal with it. Scrolling day by day is a painful experience too. You really just cannot get work done using this calendar. Unless the event you’re looking for is this week, you may as well assume it doesn’t exist as you won’t be able to find information on it in this app.

The email search functionality is equally poor. You can navigate to a folder you know an email is in. You can use a search term that is near unique. But the search function does not care. It pulls in data from anywhere, including places you could never fathom to ask. Why you can’t search by folder or use the basic (and pretty good) search rules from desktop I cannot understand.

The app has not failed to send or receive emails, so well done on not failing there I suppose.