Consider these silly UIs from the previous version of the OneNote mobile app for iPhone: I had noted the lack of compatibility with SkyDrive Pro/Office 365 previously, and you only needed to use the previous app versions briefly to discover the UI issues. The apps also feature better sharing features and remove the limit on the number of notes you could create: It’s now unlimited. The previous versions of these apps could only sync with SkyDrive, not SkyDrive Pro on SharePoint Online/Office 365. Now there are rich formatting options, as seen in the Windows mobile apps. One of the big issues with the iOS and Android versions of OneNote is that the formatting options were too basic. As you may know, OneNote mobile apps are also available for the Windows desktop, Windows 8/RT (“Metro”), Windows Phone 7.x and 8, and there is a OneNote Web App as well. Microsoft enhanced the apps’s UIs to ensure that notes appear the same across all devices and platforms. The apps were re-architected to deliver more reliable syncing and enable Microsoft to update the apps more rapidly in the future. But in looking at the apps before and after the update, I’m pretty sure that’s not the case.Īccording to Microsoft, the OneNote app updates on iPhone/iPod touch, iPad, and Android offer the following improvements: I actually received a few complaints from readers about these app updates, since many assumed that they in some way pushed the iOS and Android versions of the apps ahead of the Windows Phone 8 or Windows 8/RT OneNote mobile apps.

Best of all, it now works with SkyDrive Pro in SharePoint, SharePoint Online and the business versions of Office 365. The new app versions improve back-end notes syncing while bringing their respective UIs up to date with the more modern Windows versions of the apps. Microsoft this week launched major updates to its OneNote mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android.

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