Microsoft Lists User Reviews

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Well designed but very buggy

The features and the design of the app is topnotch but the app is extremely buggy still. I have reported on numerous occasions that sometimes the lists would load and work fine, then the next day, the same lists show blank; don’t load. No matter what you do to troubleshoot, it doesn’t fix it. Then randomly, the lists load fine again. It’s on and off issue makes the app very unreliable and impossible to recommend. The worst thing is that I’ve reported this bug from within the Help app, and I’ve gotten no response.
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Response from developer

We are very glad to know that you like the app. We are actively working on this issue based on your feedback and will release a fix in the next update. We encourage you to continue to share feedback and help us improve the app.

Very Useful

Please make option to display wider columns so can see full text of list item. Also 2nd level grouping please.

Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback. We will look into this and track this as an area of further improvement for our future updates. Please stay tuned and we appreciate your support in improving Lists experience. The Microsoft Lists mobile team would also love to talk to you further to improve the Lists app experience. If you are interested please reach out to us at listsmobile_feedback@microsoft.com and we would be glad to setup a mutually convenient time. Regards Microsoft Lists Team PS: Try upcoming features early by downloading Lists beta app from https://aka.ms/get-lists-app

Great progress but how to customise view on a small screen?

Really good to be able to use this on IPhone and desktop, having the privilege of an O365 subscription, but I can see no way of decreasing list row height in the iOS app, and there is a lot of white unused space there, and a very long list that it would be helpful to make more compact. Something I’m missing maybe??
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Response from developer

We are sorry that you had a bad experience while using the app. We request you to share more details (with screenshot preferably) and submit in-app feedback so that we can collect logs to further understand your specific issue better. Please follow the below steps below: 1. Launch the App 2. Shake the phone 3. You should see a “Help & feedback” pop up 4. Tap on the "Report a problem" option 5. Please specify the issue in detail and enable the issue screenshot option Regards Mobile Lists Team PS: Try upcoming features early by downloading Lists beta app from https://aka.ms/get-lists-app

Works as Expected

5/5 In my books

Response from developer

Thanks for feedback and we appreciate your support in improving Lists experience. The Microsoft Lists mobile team would also love to talk to you further to improve the Lists app experience. If you are interested please reach out to us at listsmobile_feedback@microsoft.com and we would be glad to setup a mutually convenient time. Regards Microsoft Lists Team PS: Try upcoming features early by downloading Lists beta app from https://aka.ms/get-lists-app

Not very good

Templates do not work on iPad pro.

Response from developer

We are sorry that you had a bad experience while using the app. We are not able to reproduce the issue on our side. We request you to share more details (with screenshot preferably) and submit in-app feedback so that we can collect logs to further understand your specific issue better. Please follow the steps below: 1. Launch the App 2. Shake the device 3. You should see a “Help & feedback” pop up 4. Tap on the "Report a problem" option 5. Please specify the issue in detail and enable the issue screenshot option Regards Mobile Lists Team

Great new app for access to new and existing Sharepoint Lists for business users

[Not currently for home / individual users, as it depends on access to the business ‘Sharepoint’ product. *]

This app is brand new (early 2021), so some may be disappointed that it doesn’t have all the features of similar apps, but it seems to be a great start.

Mobile access to not only view, but to add data to and change configuration of Sharepoint Lists, makes this app a long-awaited tool in the box for many of us.

— This is great for uses such as simple asset management and event planning.
— You can add photos to lists (multiple fields) and scan barcodes into any text field, both of which are difficult to do in a PC web browser (as well as is adding location information).
— Your data should be easily exportable (at least on the web) to a .csv file or to Excel Online. You can start recording data here and move it elsewhere later if you outgrow this tool.

Finally: This isn’t a relational database, folks - it’s a way to enter, search, and view data in a more structured way** than you might normally do so using text files or a shared (non-calculation) spreadsheet.

I haven’t tried this yet with the Lists app in MS Teams, but I would expect that to work (may depend on your company’s particular Teams settings).

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Devs: Great job so far!

Users: please submit feedback in the app or on the web for suggestions and comments - modern MSFT appears to listen to end users much better than expected for a large company.

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*(If you don’t have a business O365/M365 account, you’ll be better off using something else like AirTable or FileMaker Go for now - check back here in a year or two, though.)

** (If you have structured list-type data, it probably makes more sense to store it here than in a shared OneNote document, for example.)
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No iPad layout

The app doesn’t have iPad layout

iPhone App Experience on an iPad is Abysmal

Not really sure why Apple allows such poor design decisions, because it creates a terrible user experience.

Response from developer

We are glad to inform that we released support for iPad optimized experience. Please update to latest version to it out and let us know. Regards Microsoft Lists Team

Can we please get an iPad version?

Please

Great app, but the iPad version can’t come soon enough

…please get it out there for us!

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