How will the ads look on the Outlook app?
Microsoft Outlook app — like other email apps — give users options to customise the look of the inbox. Currently, users have the choice to have either one single inbox or divide it into two categories — Focused and Other — depending on the importance of the emails. Before the new update, users could only see the ads in the Other folders. However, now the ads will be visible in the single inbox format of the Outlook app as well.
In a statement given to The Verge, Microsoft confirmed the move of showing more ads. “For free users of Outlook, ads are shown in their inbox and they can choose to enable the ‘Focused inbox’ feature if they would like to see ads only in the ‘Other’ inbox,” Microsoft spokesperson Caitlin Roulston told The Verge.
Ads aren’t something new for Outlook — or for that matter Gmail — users. On the desktop versions of the apps, ads are quite prominently visible. Microsoft is giving a way out of these ads: buy a Microsoft 365 subscription and you will get an ad-free experience.
