Microsoft revealed it would phase out Publisher, one of its longstanding Office applications, and also announced it will cease support for the Microsoft Lists mobile app. The tech giant first shared details about this decision in June 2025 with an in-app notification. Since that time, the mobile variant of Lists has been gradually retired each month, culminating in its removal from app stores in November 2025.
Introduced in 2020, Lists has become one of several Microsoft 365 offerings designed for enterprise clients. Microsoft promotes Lists as a comprehensive solution for business users to create, share, and manage a range of workflows throughout organizations. The product includes templates that cover everything from event schedules and onboarding checklists to in-depth issue trackers, and Microsoft positions Lists as a versatile information management tool. It has gained popularity among project managers, who see it as a progression from SharePoint Lists owing to its integrated features within the company’s 365 software ecosystem, including Outlook and Teams. Particularly, the mobile application offered a convenient way to operate while on the move, although it did miss some essential features found in the desktop version.
On a positive note, Lists will remain available through both its desktop application and mobile web browsers. To use Lists on a mobile browser, users must navigate to their team’s SharePoint site and locate the app in the upper-left menu. Fortunately, there are no additional steps required for users to transfer their data away from the mobile application.
Although Microsoft has not disclosed the reasons for discontinuing Lists, this action aligns with a broader company strategy of streamlining its software suite. From the unceremonious conclusion of Windows 10 in October 2025 to the phasing out of the Microsoft Store’s support for its Office products, the tech giant has spent recent months methodically reducing its applications. The rationale behind many of these actions appears logical: Rather than creating and maintaining multiple
