Further Lanterns. EP# 2119

Now, a little bit of random tech news.

Microsoft Teams mobile users on iOS and Android must update the app.

by early October, 2026.

Now you may say, well, how do I do that? Well, depending on how you have your phone, let's say you're a iPhone user like me.

If you have your phone set to automatically update apps, you don't have to do anything.

It'll be taken care of for you, which is a really nice thing.

But if you are a little more paranoid like I am, I don't have automatic updates turned on for anything, for the OS, for each individual apps.

So I go in every once in a while.

That's why my app store icon has like a gazillion numbers on there.

It says like 145 or something.

So I go in there, I click on it, and it tells me all the apps that have updates.

And then I say, okay, I'm willing to try an update on this one, and I'll try an update on this one.

The reason for that is I actually have three or four apps that if you update them, they literally delete them from your machine because somebody bought them And they don't want you using it anymore.

So if you're a TriCaster user, you'll know what I'm talking about.

If you're a couple other people, you'll understand what I'm talking about.

They just delete them.

So it's really easy to update.

The key is you got to get updated.

Users who don't update, you're not going to get the calendar feature anymore.

So that change, it doesn't affect the desktop version.

This is only for the mobile people.

Microsoft says the update is needed to maintain calendar reliability and compatibility with ongoing team service updates.

Microsoft did not explain exactly why the older mobile versions will lose calendar access.

Bad code or a third-party plug-in that they were using that they don't have a license for anymore.

There's a lot of reasons.