What happens to the Microsoft Whiteboard apps for Windows, iOS and Android on 16 October 2026

What Microsoft states retires

• The three standalone apps. Microsoft's wording: "The standalone Whiteboard apps for Windows, iOS, and Android retire for users with work or school accounts and personal Microsoft accounts."
• An installed app stops opening boards. Microsoft's wording: "After this date, already-installed apps display a retirement experience instead of opening the Whiteboard gallery or whiteboard content."
• On the same day, the remaining Azure-based boards are deleted. Microsoft's migration page states: "October 16, 2026: Remaining Azure-based Whiteboards are permanently deleted and cannot be recovered."

A note on the date: the retirement page gives 16 October 2026 for the apps, and that date is used here. The migration page was returned with a sentence giving 14 September 2026 for the apps.

What continues

• Whiteboard for work or school accounts. Microsoft's wording: "For work or school accounts, Microsoft Whiteboard is not retiring."
• Teams and the web. Microsoft's wording: "Users can continue using Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams and on the web." The retirement page lists this under work or school accounts.
• OneDrive-backed boards. Microsoft's wording: "Retirement of the standalone apps does not remove OneDrive-backed whiteboards." OneDrive is the default storage for all new whiteboards.

Personal Microsoft accounts: the retirement page confirms that the apps retire for personal accounts on 16 October 2026. Whether personal accounts can still open Whiteboard on the web after that date, and whether their boards are deleted on that date, is not confirmed on the Microsoft pages read.

What to do this week

1. Work or school account: open your boards in Microsoft Teams or on the web instead of the standalone app.
2. Export each board you want to keep. The export Microsoft documents is Settings, then Export image, one board at a time, before 16 October 2026. The steps are on the export one board as an image page.
3. Personal account: what happens to your boards is not confirmed, so export anything you want to keep before 16 October 2026.
4. Know which boards are at risk. According to Microsoft, the boards stored in Azure are the ones originally created in Azure and the ones started on a Surface Hub or a Microsoft Teams Rooms device. Microsoft says users can view and export those boards through 16 October 2026.
5. Tenant admins: Microsoft says administrators can check whether their tenant has Azure whiteboards by using Get-WhiteboardsForTenant. See the bulk export page for tenant admins.

About this page

• Information as of 2026-10-04, verify with Microsoft: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps
• Independent guide, not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft or any vendor named.
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Microsoft sources used on this page

• Retirement of the standalone Microsoft Whiteboard apps: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/retirement-standalone-microsoft-whiteboard-apps
• Migration of whiteboards from Azure to OneDrive (dates, export step, admin cmdlet): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/whiteboard/migration-of-whiteboards-from-azure-to-onedrive
• Manage data for Microsoft Whiteboard (OneDrive and Azure storage): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/whiteboard/manage-data-organizations?view=o365-worldwide