Email on Android
For work mail in Gmail or Samsung Email. Menu names can vary by phone.
My work email keeps saying sign-in failed
- Sign in with your new address if the app asks.
- If that fails, remove and re-add your work account.
Only seeing username, domain and server boxes, with no Microsoft sign-in page? Contact IT or use Outlook on Android.
Already set up, now broken
Removing the account only clears the phone's copy.
Gmail
- Tap your profile picture.
- Tap Manage accounts on this device.
- Select your work account.
- Tap Remove account (or Remove).
- Add your work account again.
Screenshot coming: Gmail work account removal
Samsung Email
- Open your phone's Settings.
- Tap Accounts and backup.
- Tap Manage accounts.
- Select your work account.
- Tap Remove account (or Remove).
- Add your work account again.
Screenshot coming: Samsung work account removal
Set up Gmail from scratch
- Open Gmail.
- Tap your profile picture.
- Tap Add another account.
- Choose Exchange and Microsoft 365 (older phones may say Exchange and Office 365).
- Enter your new address.
- Tap Next.
- Enter your usual password on the Microsoft page.
- Approve the sign-in on your phone.
- If asked about security features, tap OK or Activate.
- Choose the mail, calendar and contacts you want to sync.
- Tap Done.
Don't choose Outlook, Hotmail and Live; that's for personal accounts.
Screenshot coming: Exchange and Microsoft 365 choice in Gmail
Set up Samsung Email from scratch
- Open Samsung Email.
- Tap the menu (☰).
- Tap Settings (the gear).
- Tap Add account.
- Choose Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync (or Office 365 / Outlook if shown).
- Enter your new address.
- Enter your usual password.
- Tap Sign in.
- Approve the sign-in on your phone.
- Accept the security prompts.
Screenshot coming: Samsung Email work account choices
My work calendar disappeared
- Remove and re-add your work mail account.
- Turn on calendar sync when adding it.
Emails I send show my old address
Your phone may still have the old address saved. Mail to that address still reaches you.
