In this article, we’re going to show you how to disable Outlook’s Focused Inbox feature. I want my regular Inbox with just one-mail instead of two. However, some users don’t like this inbox hierarchy and want to turn off Outlook Focused.Īll of a sudden I have Focused and Other Inbox. These are selected based on the content of the email and the frequency you interact with the sender. Your most important emails are on the Focused tab. This feature divides your inbox into two tabs – Focused and Other. Outlook’s Focused Inbox helps you focus on the emails that matter most to you. Maybe I’ve been out of the loop given the current state of the world, but this came as a bit of a surprise to me.Home › Outlook › How to › Disable Outlook Focused Inbox When this happens, miscategorized messages can be dragged to the correct tab and dropped there - although it’s not clear how much impact that will have on future mailings. In my own inbox, different promotional mailings from the same sender (same domain, IP infrastructure, and authentication) were split between the Promotions and Other tabs. Looking through the tabs, the categorizations seem fairly accurate but not perfect. When you choose your tabs and click Save, you’re presented with your new inbox with the allocated tabs plus the category “Other” for anything that doesn’t fall under the chosen groupings. Included in the available tabs are Focused Inbox, Microsoft’s “Priority Inbox” clone, along with Promotions, Social, and Newsletters. Upon clicking the button to “Try them,” I saw the same dialog box shared by the Mystery Tweeter:

That is, until I logged into my account today and was greeted with an option to enable inbox tabs in my account.

The screenshots are the only thing ever posted by the Twitter account and this was the first I had heard of Microsoft adding tabbed sections to their inbox view, so I took it all with a grain of salt.

Last week, a mysterious, newly-created Twitter account shared these screenshots of Microsoft’s Outlook web interface with tabs similar to those found in Gmail:

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