Starting in late November 2016, Microsoft will begin removing the Clutter feature in your inbox and replacing it with the new Focused Inbox. This feature automatically filters your inbox to keep the most important emails in front of you and places the less urgent emails in a different tab called “Other.” All emails currently in the Clutter folders will be moved to the Other tab when this feature is rolled out.
According to Microsoft, “Focused Inbox is a refinement and improvement of a previous feature called Clutter. Clutter’s purpose was also to help you focus on the most important items in your inbox, but it did so by moving “Other” email to a separate folder. Focused Inbox makes it easier for you to stay on top of incoming email without having to visit another folder.
Active Clutter users will have to opt-in to Focused Inbox and will be able to do so from an in-app prompt in Outlook. After they opt-in, they will no longer receive less important email in the “Clutter” folder. Instead, email will be split between the Focused and Other tabs in their inbox.
The same machine learned algorithm that moved items to the Clutter folder now powers Focused Inbox, meaning that any emails that were set to move to Clutter will now be moved to Other. The learning and training that users invested into Clutter would be transitioned to Focused Inbox without any effort on the user’s part.
Users can keep using the existing Clutter experience through the transition. However, after the transition period, Clutter will be completely replaced by Focused Inbox.”
If you use the Outlook app on your mobile device, you might already be using the Focused Inbox.
For more information about the transition from Clutter to Focused Inbox, see the announcement from Microsoft.
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