Designer and Copilot Pro Are Coming to the Microsoft 365 Mobile App

Just in case it wasn’t confusing enough where you can access Copilot features across the Microsoft ecosystem, the firm announced today that it is bringing Designer—Copilot’s image creation service—and Copilot Pro capabilities to the Microsoft 365 app on Android and iPhone.

“We continue to enhance the Microsoft 365 app experience based on your helpful feedback as the main destination to discover the right Microsoft 365 app for the job or content creation needs, while also giving you a single place to manage and access your files quickly,” Microsoft product marketing manager Lisa Svensson writes in the announcement post. “I’m excited to share the refreshed UI experience with even more functionality on the Microsoft 365 mobile app.”

The Microsoft 365 mobile app largely replaces the standalone Word, Excel, PowerPoint mobile apps for many users, and it can be used to access your OneDrive content and for mobile-specific tasks—scanning, recording video, extracting text from a photo, and dictation—too. In recent months, Microsoft made Copilot central to the Microsoft 365 mobile app experience, and Copilot in Microsoft 365 subscribers can now access Word- and PowerPoint-based capabilities in the app too.

By the end of April, the Microsoft 365 mobile app will be updated with Designer capabilities in preview. (Those in the Microsoft 365 Insider Program can access this now on Android only, I believe.) This support will come via a new Designer option in the Create view, alongside Word, PowerPoint, PDF, and Excel. Microsoft notes that all Designer features will be freely available during the preview, though some (unnamed) features will require a Microsoft 365 subscription after the preview ends.

Svensson also says that Copilot Pro functionality is “coming soon” to the Microsoft 365 mobile app, though there are no other details.