Open a SharePoint Online site on an iPhone or iPad

If you're using an Apple iPad or iPhone and your Office 365 subscription includes SharePoint Online, you can use your device to view sites, such as team sites, in SharePoint Online. You can also view files that are in your OneDrive for Business library.

Recent improvements to SharePoint Online have made SharePoint even more touch friendly than before. For more details, see SharePoint Online introduces the Touch Design mobile experience.

Ready to try it out?

Open a SharePoint site

Open your OneDrive for Business library

Move from your email in OWA to a SharePoint site

Change how a site is displayed

Switch from mobile view to pc view

Switch from pc view to mobile view

Open a SharePoint site

1. Open a web browser, such as Safari, on your device.

2. In the address bar, type the website address (URL) for SharePoint Online.
   For example, our URL is http://contoso14.sharepoint.com.
   Your URL will include your domain name instead of Contoso14.

3. Sign in using your work or school account.

4. In the lower left corner of the screen, touch the tiles icon to see a list of navigation tiles.
   
   
   

5. Touch Sites. You'll see a list of SharePoint sites organized into lists, such as Sites I'm Following and Promoted Sites.
   
   

6. Choose a site, such as Team Site.

Open your OneDrive for Business library

1. Open a web browser, such as Safari, on your device.

2. In the address bar, type the website address (URL) for SharePoint Online.
   For example, our URL is http://contoso14.sharepoint.com.
   Your URL will include your domain name instead of Contoso14.

3. In the lower left corner of the screen, touch the tiles icon to see a list of navigation tiles.
   
   
   

4. Choose OneDrive.

Note:  The tiles that you see are dependent on your Office 365 subscription. A OneDrive for Business app is available for iPad. You can use that app or view your OneDrive for Business content in the browser window

Move from your email in OWA to a SharePoint site

On your iPad or iPhone, you can easily move to a SharePoint site from your email in a browser window. This is useful if you want to check your email before you visit a team site, OneDrive for Business, or other location in Office 365.

1. Open a web browser, such as Safari, on your device.

2. In the address bar, type http://portal.office.com.

3. Sign in using your work or school account.
   Your email opens in Outlook Web App (OWA).
   
   
   

4. In the lower left corner, touch the tiles icon to open a sites menu.
   
   
   

5. Choose an option, such as Sites or OneDrive.

Note:  The options that you see on the sites menu depend on your Office 365 subscription.

Change how a site is displayed

You can choose between two kinds of views—mobile view and pc view—for some kinds of SharePoint sites and your OneDrive for Business library. In pc view, you see navigation links across the top of the page, as shown in the following image:

In mobile view, you see the site formatted to display nicely on your phone.

Note:  Mobile view might not be available for all of your SharePoint sites. When mobile view is not available, sites are displayed in pc view automatically.

Switch from mobile view to pc view

1. In a site or library, touch the ellipsis (…) 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, touch Settings ( ).

2. In the Settings menu, choose Mobile View.
   

Note:  Mobile view is not available for all SharePoint sites.

For more information, see Use a mobile device to work with SharePoint Online sites.