Use a mobile device to work with SharePoint Online sites

What you can do

You can use your smart phone or tablet to do these kinds of things:

• Open documents. You can view your documents, documents that you’ve recently used in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel, documents that are shared with you, and documents that you’re following in SharePoint Online.

• Find sites. You can see a list of sites that you’re following in SharePoint Online, and sites that are promoted by administrators.

• Navigate SharePoint Online. You can use navigation links to move from a site to OneDrive for Business, or vice versa.

• Change your view of some sites. You can switch between full-screen view (this is called "pc view") and mobile view for some of the sites and libraries that you use in SharePoint Online.

  

Open and browse a SharePoint site

Open a SharePoint site

1. Open the web browser using your mobile device.

2. In the address bar, type the website address (URL) for SharePoint Online.
   For example, http://contoso.sharepoint.com.
   Your URL will include your domain name instead of Contoso.
   

3. Sign in using your work or school account.

4. In the lower left corner of the screen, select Go to . You might need to tap the ellipse ( ... ) at the bottom to see the Go to icon.

5. Select Sites from the list of navigation tiles.

   

   
   You'll see a list of the SharePoint sites organized under Sites I'm following and Promoted sites.

   

   Sites I'm following is like a bookmark of all the SharePoint sites you're interested in. For information on how to add sites to the Sites I'm following list, see the video Follow a SharePoint site.

Browse a SharePoint site

1. Choose the site you want to view under Sites I'm following or Promoted sites on the Sites page. Document libraries and lists are organized under Apps and any subsites are organized under Subsites.

   The name of the site appears at the top of the page so you can tell which site you're viewing.

2. To view a site's OneNote notebook select the tile Site Assets.

3. To view files in your site, select the document library that contains the file you want.

Open your OneDrive for Business library

1. If you are already signed in to a SharePoint site using the browser on your device, in the lower left corner of the screen, tap Go to and select OneDrive. OneDrive for Business should open.

2. If you're not currently signed in to a SharePoint site, open the web browser on your device and follow these steps:

   • In the address bar, type the website address (URL) for SharePoint Online.
     For example, http://contoso.sharepoint.com.
     Your URL will include your domain name instead of Contoso.

   • Sign in using your work or school account, for example, tony@contoso.onmicrosoft.com.

   • In the lower left corner of the screen, select Go to . You might need to tap the ellipse ( ... ) at the bottom to see the Go to icon.

   • Select OneDrive from the list of tiles.

For more info on logging on to OneDrive for Business on various mobile OS's, see:

• Add OneDrive for Business in Android

• Use OneDrive for Business in iOS

• Use OneDrive for Business on your Windows phone

Switch between mobile and full-screen view

You can choose to view your SharePoint sites and OneDrive for Business library in mobile view or the full-site view called PC view.

Switch from mobile view to PC view

1. In a site or library, tap the More menu in the lower right corner of the screen.

2. Choose Switch to PC view.

   

Switch from PC view to mobile view

1. In the SharePoint site, in the upper right corner of the screen, tap Settings .

   If you don't see Settings, you might be in full screen view. Tap the Focus on Content icon in the upper right of your screen, next to Edit.

2. In the Settings menu, choose Mobile view.

   

More resources

For more information on using SharePoint on the mobile platform, see SharePoint Online introduces the Touch Design mobile experience.