At the end of the year, all iPhoned editors choose their favorite app of 2020. Microsoft Teams was Lars’ favorite iOS app.
Apps of the Year 2020: Microsoft Teams
Maybe the term “favorite” app isn’t quite right, but Microsoft Teams is without a doubt the most necessary app I’ve used this year. In a year when the whole world was forced to switch to digital working, meeting and taking lessons, Microsoft Teams is the app that has developed at a breakneck pace.
What started as an app for online meetings and keeping in touch has grown in less than a year into the app that countless schools use to teach children and students.
Microsoft has cleverly responded to this with special functions that are specifically intended for home education. For example, you can easily prepare files, compose your class and there are all kinds of great presentation tools for teaching a lesson.
Later in the year, Microsoft even released an update with the Together Mode that lets you create a digital classroom or lecture hall. The uses person recognition to cut out your image and place it in a digital chair. Classmates can see each other digitally and the teacher can see the entire class at the same time.
And Microsoft is far from done building out Teams in these crazy times. For example, you will soon be able to use ‘Breakout rooms’ to bring groups of employees or students together digitally, just as if they were meeting in a separate meeting room or room before returning to the common room afterwards.
Such smart technical adjustments and quick updates are exactly what we need from apps in 2020 and 2021. Now that digital communication is more important than ever, it is these kinds of apps that make everything just that little bit easier.
Besides Microsoft Teams, other meeting apps like Zoom and Google Meet were more popular than ever, but as far as I’m concerned, Teams is the one that has developed the fastest and most appropriately. For me, that makes it the best app I’ve used in the past twelve months, although I hope to no longer need the app around this time next year.
More apps of 2020
At the end of the year, we look back at our favorite apps of 2020. Also read which apps the other iPhoned editors have chosen. In the coming days you will find a new app article on iPhoned every day in which an editor presents his or her app of the year.