"New Outlook" preview inbox doesn't refresh

Anonymous
2023-03-29T11:58:46+00:00

I've been using the new Outlook preview (the one you enable by toggling the "Try the new Outlook" switch in the main Outlook app for Windows) and I love it. It's so much faster than the main version.

Unfortunately, a few weeks ago I noticed that the inbox had stopped updating automatically. I still get notifications that new messages have arrived, and the icon in the task bar indicates that I have unread messages, but when I look at the Outlook window the inbox shows no new messages. I have to click on a different folder and back to the inbox for it to refresh and show the new emails.

Obviously this make the product basically unusable - I can't afford to risk missing important emails - so I keep switching back to the main Outlook app, each time giving feedback about the problem. Every week or so I switch back to the new Outlook in the hope that the issue has been fixed, but so far it hasn't.

This seems like such a fundamental problem that I can't believe it hasn't been fixed, which makes me wonder whether I'm alone in having this issue. I'm using a work account with Outlook and, to be clear, I don't experience the same issue when I'm using the main Outlook app.

Is anybody else having this problem? Is there anything I can do to fix it or is it a problem with the app itself?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-08-18T16:56:22+00:00

    Same problem. The refresh seems to happen sporadically once or twice a day but unreliably.

    Hoping for a fix soon.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-08-11T15:41:22+00:00

    You have better luck than I. My Outlook preview version just spins and never goes farther than "signing you in"

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-23T17:52:39+00:00

    I have the same issue but worse still is I have a PAID version MS Office 2021 Pro but I'm getting adverts, surely this is not supposed to happen.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-06-06T16:21:00+00:00

    AL generated sludge.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-04-20T17:18:36+00:00

    The new outlook preview version does not have a sign out window.

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