Office apps for iOS get Liquid Glass redesign and new icons

If you use Microsoft 365 apps on your iPhone or iPad, you may have noticed that Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, the company's main productivity apps, now look a bit different than before. That is because Microsoft started rolling out the Liquid Glass redesign, along with the recently announced icon redesign. Now, in a newly published blog post, Microsoft confirmed that the updates are rolling out to all users worldwide, and getting the redesigned versions no longer requires signing up for the Microsoft 365 Insider program.

Besides new icons, which, interestingly, look slightly different from what Microsoft recently showcased alongside the rejected variants, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint now support Apple's new Liquid Glass design language, introduced with iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. You will notice the new keyboard, an updated floating bar with Home, Create, and Browse tabs. The search button has been moved to the bottom, again, to align with Apple's new design principles.

Another change in the updated apps is filters for templates. Now, when creating a new document using a template, you can filter and switch between different categories for quick search. For example, Flyers, Resumes, Invoices, and more. This makes finding the necessary template much faster, with no need to scroll a single long list of templates.

The Liquid Glass redesign, alongside template filters and new icons, is now publicly available on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and visionOS 26, starting with app version 2.102 and newer. You can find Microsoft's announcement post here. However, if you struggle with accessing Microsoft's services, it's because Azure is currently suffering from a massive outage, which took down plenty of companies' websites and services.

You can download Word for iOS here, Excel here, and PowerPoint here in the App Store.

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Posted Thursday 30 October 2025 at 12:10 pm AEST (my time).

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