Microsoft adds mobile support to Copilot for task handoff across devices
Satya Nadella announced that Copilot Cowork now runs on iOS and Android phones. The update includes new skills and plugins that let the AI perform operations across separate business systems. Users can continue tasks started on a desktop and finish them on a phone without losing context. This extends the AI's reach into delegation and cross-app workflows.
Until now most mid-sized company workers kept serious task management on laptops while treating phones as simple email viewers. Any real work on the move required manual copying or waiting until they returned to a desk. The mobile expansion makes continuous AI-supported flows possible during commutes or between meetings. Without strict limits on what the phone version is allowed to interrupt, it will simply multiply the existing problem of scattered attention across too many Microsoft surfaces.
Analysis
This is a trap if you let it become another always-on channel. Configure the mobile app to create tasks from Teams and email only, then test it for three commute days to see whether it actually reduces your evening inbox time.
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