New Outlook Categories in Favorites not showing mails

Anonymous
2025-02-13T15:15:27+00:00

I have been categorizing my mails and adding the categories to the favorites. When clicking on the category in the favorites it showed me all mails in the category which was fine up to a couple of hours ago. Now it shows nothing. When I click the 3 dots it opens a pop up telling me "X items (0 unread)" but it doesn't show any items. The same goes in outlook.com in the web

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-16T08:09:15+00:00

    Hi Luckie Shi,

    I have a business account, I see my mails in outlook.office.com with the same issue on web as in the new outlook app on my PC.

    Here's a screenshot of the problem:

    As you can see, there are 7 items that should be displayed but none are displayed.

    That's the "Category" in my "Favorites"

    Thanks,

    Yaron

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-20T23:21:42+00:00

    Just adding to the thread - I'm also experiencing the same problem.

    As a temporary workaround, you can click on the 'favourite' and then click in the 'search' field at the top of New Outlook.
    Doing this auto-populates the search field with your tag.

    Then press 'Enter' and the tagged results will display.

    Not ideal, and I do hope this is resolved soon, but at least then tags are not completely unusable.

    • Chris

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-18T02:16:33+00:00

    I am having this exact same issue and having trouble getting support to resolve this.

    I am using outlook from a business account

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-19T02:34:39+00:00

    I am having the same issue, except that it only occurs with one of the categories I have added to Favorites. All the others are still working the same way they were last week. I am using an Outlook personal account.

    I have tried removing the category from Favorites and adding it back in, but that does not resolve the issue.

    Please do not tell me to create a new category and recategorize all the emails. There are far too many to do that.

    Thanks,

    John

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-20T11:28:12+00:00

    I also have this issue, some of the categories are not showing any mail (not working) and some others are ok.

    As a workaround, performing a search works.

    Example, category name is admin:

    • category admin is set up as favorite and it's not showing any mail although there are several
    • performing a search shows the messages:
      • category:"admin"

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