OneDrive for iOS Gets Refined Designed With Big New Update

Microsoft’s OneDrive app for the iPhone and iPad is getting a major new update this week. The new update brings an improved look, as well as a bunch of new features and bug fixes to the app.

The big new addition in the new update is the improved look, which Microsoft is marketing as a “new look” for the app. The updated look still looks much like the previous design, so it’s not really a huge change. The improved design does have some interesting changes, though — for one, Microsoft seems to have slightly tweaked the font style to make things easier to scan throughout the app. Second, there’s a new ellipsis menu for every file within the app to make accessing the context menu significantly easier. Additionally, iPad’s multi-column list view has been ditched in favour of a more PC-like experience, too. Most of the app still looks exactly the same as before, though, so it isn’t necessarily a new look — rather a refined design.

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The update brings another new feature: the ability to drag-and-drop files. Microsoft is introducing a new tap-and-hold gesture for every item in your OneDrive that lets you drag files and folders into each other to move them around. The user experience for this is actually pretty neat, and I’d imagine it will work particularly well on bigger screens like the iPad Pro, where you can also drag-and-drop files into other apps in iOS 11.

Apart from the new look and drag-and-drop support, the new OneDrive brings a bunch of other new features. The app now includes file previews for more than 130 file types, support for the Files app in iOS 11, Microsoft Flow integration, improved iPhone X landscape support, and much more. It’s rolling out today on the App Store, and you can grab it here. 

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  • smashie

    30 January, 2018 - 6:04 am

    <p>It's a welcome update, although the dragging and dropping is a bit too easy to do and messed up my folder structure quite quickly</p>

    • Chris_Kez

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      30 January, 2018 - 10:31 am

      <blockquote><a href="#241406"><em>In reply to smashie:</em></a></blockquote><p>Is there an easy to use "Undo" function?</p>

      • smashie

        30 January, 2018 - 2:49 pm

        <blockquote><a href="#241455"><em>In reply to Chris_Kez:</em></a></blockquote><p>I haven't found it yet, I could be missing something though</p>

  • Atoqir

    30 January, 2018 - 6:15 am

    <p>Yay they support the "Files" app in iOS for viewing, saving and creation for personal and business accounts</p><p><br></p><p> Finally, that was what I was waiting</p>

  • Chris_Kez

    Premium Member
    30 January, 2018 - 10:39 am

    <p>Still waiting on a dark theme for OneDrive and Outlook on iOS. </p>

  • Lewk

    Premium Member
    30 January, 2018 - 1:52 pm

    <p>And no update in sight for the Windows 10 UWP version. (And yes it's coming, as stated in their <a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/OneDrive-Blog/Beautifully-useful-Introducing-a-new-look-for-OneDrive/ba-p/114307&quot; target="_blank">blog</a>.) iOS gets updated for it twice, android got it a month ago and the web got it a few weeks ago. But Microsoft's very own platform is left to rot with a joke of an app that doesn't even work properly and looks like a pile of garbage.</p>

  • Maxpayne

    23 March, 2018 - 1:45 am

    <p>So, it seems that the OneDrive will be getting a major update. With this total revamping the user interface seems to be much more efficient and user friendly. There have been so many complaints regarding the unstable behavior of the software before.</p><p><a href="http://www.luxuryknit.com/service/fabric-printing/&quot; target="_blank">Luxury Knit Fabric Printing</a></p>

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