Office 365 App Launcher navigation experience

App Launcher is the new feature introduced in Office 365 by Microsoft.

This feature gives an option to the end users to easily navigate and gives a quick launch option. It makes the most recently used applications, which need to be used for day to day operations, easily accessible.

What is App Launcher?

App Launcher is a single one-point click where we can see all the default Office 365 applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, One Note, Word, One Drive, etc.,) all together in the same location. In addition to this, we can add a few other applications which end users would like to see on this App Launcher one point click.

This gives a new navigation experience to the end user where all the applications are available on the top navigation bar.

Below is the icon which would be available once this App Launcher feature is available on Office 365 tenants.

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Once we click on it we get the below options as shown:

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We can see there are default Office applications and we have an option for My apps at the bottom which will navigate to a window where we can modify these applications as shown.

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We have an option to unpin any applications that we do not need in the list.

There are additional apps which can be added from the Office Store URL: https://store.office.com/

In addition to the above features, there is a new customization feature that provides the option for users to pin up to three mostly used applications to the right side of the top navigation bar. By doing this, end users will get more direct access to the most frequently used applications. Only customers with Exchange on-premise will have this ability to pin and unpin this option at this time.

This feature will give end users easy navigation and accessibility to their most frequently used applications for their daily operations.