It’s not clear how this change affects people with Office 2021 or Office 2019 which already have an Outlook for Mac as part of their ‘perpetual licence’ plan. Microsoft 365 subscribers don’t need to do anything because they already have the latest Outlook for Mac. Predicably there are ‘in app purchases’ of Microsoft 365 plans. Microsoft hasn’t disclosed any limitations or differences between Outlook for Mac features for free vs paid subscribers. Maybe some people like having fewer options visible but many do not. The problem is occurring because of an issue in the way Outlook and Google try to negotiate the new request after access has already been granted previously.Outlook for Mac’s interface with the dumbed-down, limited interface. For the problem described in this article to occur, you will already have (previously) allowed Outlook to have access to your account and therefore ‘Microsoft apps & services’ will be listed, with access to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, and Google Drive. The Google account security dashboard at is where you can control and revoke ‘Third-party apps with account access’. In reality, it’s a problem for all recent versions of Outlook on any Mac but only in given circumstances – specifically, where you’ve previously accessed the email account with Microsoft Outlook successfully but then have needed to configure Outlook again – perhaps because you upgraded your hardware or are logging in from a second computer.Īs with most things, the fix, once you understand why and how, is really straightforward! A number of articles tell you that it’s only an issue on an M1 Mac, or that you need to enable IMAP in your Google account, or that a reboot may fix it – and yet none of those solutions have worked for you. Worse yet, you probably searched online for a solution and have been given the wrong ‘answers’. Outlook modal window pops up asking you to sign in to your Google account create an authorised connection to the Google/Gmail account so that it can collect your mail), opens a browser window to get you to sign in to your account, and after correctly inputting your username and password you end up back at the same screen you just came from, faced with an endless loop of entering your username and password but not progressing. Since you’re reading this article you probably already know exactly what I’m talking about – Outlook opens a pop-up window to authenticate your account (i.e. Google Workspace email under your own domain name). If you’re using a recent version of Outlook for Mac licensed through Office 365 or Microsoft 365 and you also want to access email accounts you have with Google, you may well have experienced immense frustration when trying to add in your Gmail or Google-hosted email accounts (i.e. SOLVED: Can’t Add Google Email Account to Outlook for Mac Octo4 minutes readĬan’t add a Gmail/Google email account to your Outlook for Mac?
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