Copilot Cowork is now on iOS and Android — delegate work from anywhere, finish it everywhere
Microsoft's Copilot Cowork AI task delegation tool is now available on iOS and Android, letting users hand off work from mobile and pick it up on desktop.
Copilot Cowork launched in late March 2026 as Microsoft’s attempt to move beyond chat-based AI and into actual task execution. Rather than answering questions, Cowork accepts a multi-step instruction, breaks it into a plan, works through it using your Microsoft 365 apps and data, and reports back when it is done. As of May 5, 2026, it is now available on iOS and Android inside the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app.
That shift matters more than it might initially seem.
What Copilot Cowork actually does
The core idea is delegation. You describe a task in plain language, and Cowork handles the execution. Something like “triage my inbox, draft replies to these five customers, and flag anything urgent” or “pull the Q2 sales numbers, build a summary slide in PowerPoint, and send it to the leadership team by 3pm.” Cowork maps out a plan, may ask a clarifying question or two, and then gets on with it, working in the cloud even after you close the app.
Before any sensitive action such as sending an email or scheduling a meeting, Cowork pauses and shows you a preview with a risk-level indicator. Medium and high-risk actions require your explicit approval. You can also pause, resume, or cancel the task entirely at any point. So while it works autonomously, you stay in control.
Why the mobile launch is significant
Up until now, Cowork was a desktop-first experience, available at m365.cloud.microsoft and in the Windows and Mac Copilot apps. That is fine for people sitting at a desk with time to think. Most work does not happen that way.
Decisions get made in hallways. Follow-ups come to mind on a commute. A customer call ends in a car park and someone mentally adds three tasks to their list. Without mobile access, Cowork would always feel like a desktop power feature. Putting it on iOS and Android means delegation can happen the moment the need arises, not when someone eventually gets back to their computer.
The mobile app is not a cut-down companion either. You can initiate tasks by text or voice, monitor progress, approve or reject actions, and review results, all from your phone. Cowork continues executing in the cloud regardless of whether you have the app open, so closing your phone does not pause the work.
Cowork Skills: capturing how you work, not just what you need
Alongside the mobile launch, Microsoft introduced Cowork Skills. A Skill is a reusable set of instructions that tells Cowork how to complete a particular type of task: your structure, your tone, your process. Instead of re-explaining how you want a weekly report assembled or a meeting brief formatted every time, you define it once and reference it going forward.
For teams that handle repeatable workflows, this is practical. Research packs, client briefings, inbox triage routines, status updates, they can all be captured as Skills and applied consistently across the team.
New integrations worth knowing about
Microsoft is also expanding what Cowork can connect to. Native integrations are coming for Fabric IQ with Power BI and Dynamics 365 across sales, customer service, and ERP applications. Third-party connectors for services including Miro, monday.com, LSEG, and S&P Global Energy are arriving in the weeks following the announcement. Enterprises can also build custom plugins for their own internal systems.
This matters because real work rarely lives in one place. Cowork becoming useful across a broader set of tools makes it more likely to fit into how an organisation actually operates, rather than requiring everything to be rerouted through Microsoft 365 first.
The governance side
For IT teams, Cowork is now integrated with Agent 365, Microsoft’s governance platform for AI agents. That means the same identity, compliance, and endpoint policies you apply to human users can apply to Cowork. Actions are auditable, data loss prevention policies are enforceable, and access can be managed through a single control plane alongside other enterprise apps.
Microsoft has also confirmed a role-based access model arriving in Q3 2026, along with a consumption-based pricing option for occasional users. That is a response to feedback from IT leaders who flagged that the current Frontier program pricing, a $45 per user per month premium on top of M365 E5, is a barrier to broader rollout.
What this means for you
If you already have a Microsoft 365 Copilot Premium licence and are enrolled in the Frontier program, you can access Cowork now on iOS and Android by updating the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app. EU tenants need to explicitly enable it due to data boundary rules, and tenants also need to allow Anthropic as a subprocessor, since Cowork runs on a multi-model architecture that includes Anthropic’s Claude.
If you are evaluating whether Cowork is worth piloting, the mobile launch makes the case stronger. The value of an AI that executes work for you increases significantly when you can hand off tasks from wherever you are, not just from a desk. Combine that with reusable Skills for your most common workflows and the expanding plugin ecosystem, and Cowork is starting to look like a practical tool for knowledge workers rather than a preview-only curiosity.
Microsoft is targeting broader general availability around its July 2026 Inspire conference. New capabilities are rolling out continuously in the meantime.