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Retirement of Microsoft Lists Mobile Apps

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Microsoft will retire the Android and iOS mobile apps for Microsoft Lists. This change affects users on both platforms and will roll out in phases between late June and mid-November 2025.

Timeline

  • Late June 2025
    The mobile apps will show an informational banner, alerting users to the upcoming retirement and recommending the mobile web experience.
  • Mid-September 2025
    New installations of the Microsoft Lists mobile apps will be blocked for all users.
  • Mid-November 2025
    The apps will be removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play. Existing installations will display an error when launched.

Impact for your users

After the retirement, users can no longer install or open the Microsoft Lists mobile apps.
All existing list data remains intact and accessible via:

  • Microsoft Lists for Windows desktop (it’s not really a desktop app, it’s a PWA browser app)
  • Microsoft Lists in a mobile browser
  • Microsoft Lists on a desktop browser

Microsoft recommends switching to the Microsoft Lists mobile browser experience as an alternative to the Lists mobile app, which offers richer functionality and ongoing updates.

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5 Comments

  1. Kari
    Why is this being retired? I use a lot of lists with staff and this may make it more difficult to convince management to use the lists going forward.
    1. Tobias Asböck✓
      Hello Kari, Microsoft mentioned they will invest more into the mobile browser experience, which offers more functionality and continues to be updated with latest improvements.
  2. Richard
    This is BS – again Microsoft seems to be not understanding how their _________ customers use there tools. I have the list app connected to well over 20 different client tenants, with multiple’s of 10 lists connected. To just simply ‘use’ the web browser would mean to sign out of one tenant and back into another, going through all the MFA’s that come with that.. Between this, Steam, charging different price points for ________ security policies… I am now forced to consider moving away from MS entirely.
  3. Stefan
    Any ideas on how to get the scanning function working when using the web browser version? We have been using lists to scan barcodes and that is not working outside of the app.

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