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Microsoft OneDrive keeps your photos, videos, and files backed up, protected, synced, and accessible on all your devices. The OneDrive app lets you view and share OneDrive files, photos, and videos with friends and family. You can use the app to automatically back up your phone's photos and videos. Start with 5 GB of free cloud storage or upgrade to a Microsoft 365 subscription to get up to 1 TB.
Microsoft OneDrive Features:
Back up photos and videos
• Automatic photo and video backup when you turn on Camera Upload
• View photos and videos on your phone, computer, and web browser
File sharing and management
• Share files, photos, videos, and albums with friends and family
• Get notifications when a shared document is edited
• Set password-protected or expiring sharing links*
• Access entire folders on the app even when there is no internet connection*
Scan
• Scan and save documents, business cards, receipts, whiteboards, and more
• Mark up, sign, and send docs right from the OneDrive mobile app
Search
• Search docs by name or content
Security
• Personal Vault lets you protect your important files with identity verification
• Restore documents with version history on all files
• Ransomware detection and recovery*
Works with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook
• Back up, view, and save your Office documents.
• Use Microsoft Office apps to edit and collaborate in real time on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files stored in OneDrive.
• Edit documents offline and save them once you are back online
Upgrade to a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription:
• 1TB of storage (1TB of storage per person for up to 6 people with the Family subscription)
• Access OneDrive premium features
• Get access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch
• Install Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook on PCs or Macs.
• Bigger personal vault
• Keep your shared files, folders and photos more secure by giving others access for a limited period of time
• Ransomware detection and recovery
• Offline Folders: Stay productive and access entire folders even when there is no internet connection
• Increase your sharing limit and share 10x content per day with friends and family
You can also purchase additional cloud storage only, with a Microsoft 365 Basic subscription. This is enough cloud storage for 32,000 photos (9 MP JPEG photos) or 132,000 documents (.7 MB Office files).
To make an in-app purchase of a Microsoft 365 Basic, Microsoft 365 Personal, Microsoft 365 Family subscription: open the app, tap the Me tab, then tap Get More Storage or the Go Premium diamond icon.
Subscriptions begin at $1.99 a month in the US, and can vary by region. Microsoft 365 subscriptions purchased from the app will be charged to your Apple ID and will automatically renew within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period, unless auto-renewal is disabled beforehand.
To manage your subscriptions or to disable auto-renewal, after purchase, go to your Apple ID account settings. A subscription cannot be cancelled or refunded during the active subscription period.
Using this OneDrive app for work or school
For you to sign into your work or school account on OneDrive, your organization needs to have a qualifying OneDrive, SharePoint Online or Microsoft 365 business subscription plan.
Privacy
This app is provided by Microsoft. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft and transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or its affiliates maintain facilities.
Privacy Policy: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=507539.
Terms of Use: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=246338.
Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2259814.
*Requires Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription
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Deep-Dive FAQs
What is Microsoft OneDrive?
Microsoft OneDrive is a digital product or tool described as: Microsoft Corporation
Where did Microsoft OneDrive originate?
Data for Microsoft OneDrive was aggregated directly from the Apple App Store community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was Microsoft OneDrive publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for Microsoft OneDrive within our tracked developer communities was recorded on December 13, 2011.
How popular is Microsoft OneDrive?
Microsoft OneDrive has achieved measurable traction, logging over 484,764 reviews and facilitating 5 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define Microsoft OneDrive?
Based on metadata extraction, Microsoft OneDrive is categorized under topics such as: Productivity, Photo & Video.
Is Microsoft OneDrive recognized by media or academic researchers?
Yes. It has been covered by media outlets like TechRadar. This indicates the concept has reached a level of mainstream or scientific viability beyond just developer forums.
What are some commercial alternatives to Microsoft OneDrive?
Our semantic intelligence engine identifies potential commercial alternatives in the SaaS space, such as Databerry, which offers overlapping value propositions.
How does the creator describe Microsoft OneDrive?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "Microsoft OneDrive keeps your photos, videos, and files backed up, protected, synced, and accessible on all your devices. The OneDrive app lets you view and share OneDrive files, photos, and videos..."
Community Voice & Feedback
When i am trying to share folder and specifically set that no authorization required by opening link onedrive requere authorization. Why?! Sharing folder with someone outside of MS ecosphere is pain and shame as google sharing works just it should. Fix it please!
The app is alright, til you get to a folder that has lots of folders. Then it just craps out loading the list and you can’t see the whole list of what’s in that location. Also it is tedious as hell trying to scroll past hundreds of things to get to something.
This app is supposed to be the replacement for the Microsoft Lens app but it cannot do nearly the functions what Lens could do
Please bring back the full screen video. It’s been couple weeks
It literally can’t show filename extensions when browsing lists of files. Pathetic.
You can’t see file properties/info if you select multiple items (e.g. total file size or number of selected items). Pathetic.
It can’t tell you how many files are in a folder. Pathetic.
There is no “Select all” option, you have to manually select 500 files if that’s how many you want to move. Pathetic.
When you upload a file with the same name as an existing file, I.e. a duplicate, it doesn’t ask you to skip or proceed with duplicates. It just instantly adds all the duplicates, which you now have to manually delete. Pathetic.
Syncing is terrible and unreliable compared to iCloud Drive (for example) too.
You can’t see file properties/info if you select multiple items (e.g. total file size or number of selected items). Pathetic.
It can’t tell you how many files are in a folder. Pathetic.
There is no “Select all” option, you have to manually select 500 files if that’s how many you want to move. Pathetic.
When you upload a file with the same name as an existing file, I.e. a duplicate, it doesn’t ask you to skip or proceed with duplicates. It just instantly adds all the duplicates, which you now have to manually delete. Pathetic.
Syncing is terrible and unreliable compared to iCloud Drive (for example) too.
Please improve your PDF editor (drawing on the PDFs is the worst experience). I always have to open it in a different app.
I used to use lens. Now it force me to use this dumb app. It only gives me jpg and can’t direct me to pdf. I then tried Google Drive. Much better experience.
Still can’t zoom in on video files during playback on iOS. You broke this. Was working. Stopped a few weeks ago. Option still highlighted. Just does nothing. Stop changing things and fix the product I pay for. Every year.
Still can’t view video in Full Screen. Search results take multiple times to locate with keywords. Very user unfriendly app. I miss Dropbox everyday. Please listen to these reviews and do something to improve it.
The latest updates have ruined the video playback option. The full screen button no longer works. You can tap the video to enlarge it but that’s not full screen. Which then loses the playback options for pause, skip, and rewind. It also doesn’t have the option to choose the video quality like we used to have. Lastly we can no longer pinch to zoom on a video. Please fix this!!
So I tried to use this to bulk transfer some files to my computer from my phone and when I tried to move only 100 files it would sometimes say “there was an error with one of the files” and then not tell me which one it was, and sometimes I’d upload 100 files into an empty folder and then the folder would show 104 files… there are no select all buttons… I’m sure it’s fine for some use cases but a cloud drive app from Microsoft should be nearly perfect for almost every use case - it’s ridiculous how it’s this horrible. It’s amateur level, seriously.
Microsoft insists that users run only the latest couple versions of iOS, otherwise, they make you get a new device just to run their apps. Forced updates/planned obsolescence are always bad as the users don’t get to choose what they want to do with the devices they own.
Awesomeness
Webber
Moving Lens to OneDrive is by far one the worst ideas Microsoft has ever had. I switching to another app for my scans. Goodbye!
Discovery Source
Apple App Store Aggregated via automated community intelligence tracking.
Tech Stack Dependencies
No direct open-source NPM package mentions detected in the product documentation.
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Deep Research & Science
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