There are many email services available these days with most of them being free to use. Of course, one of the most if not the most popular is Google’s Gmail email platform. Another popular email platform that many people use is Microsoft’s Outlook.com email service. This is also free and since it’s provided by Microsoft, it makes it easy to configure on email clients such as Outlook and the newer Outlook for Windows app.
If you use multiple devices at home and at the office such as a computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet, you most likely log into your Outlook email account on more than one device. And if you happen to use more devices than you can keep track of, you may find it difficult to remember where you have logged in at. Fortunately, if you are using the Outlook webmail service, you can easily see where your account has been logged in at. In this article, we will be showing you how to check what devices are logged into your Outlook webmail account. This can be especially useful if you think that your email account has been compromised or hacked and you would like to see what devices were used to access it.
To see what devices are currently being used to log into your Outlook webmail account, you can simply go to your email account in your web browser and click on the settings gear icon at the upper right corner of the page. Then you will need to click on the General section and then on Mobile devices. Now just because it says mobile devices doesn’t mean that it’s only smartphones or tablets. As you can see in the image below, it shows many device types such as Windows Mail\Outlook for Windows, Outlook and Universal Outlook.
Once you are there, you will see a listing of all the devices that your Outlook account is logged in to. The names might not be too self-explanatory, and you will need to click on the pencil edit button to get more information about the device.
The images below show an Outlook account logged into a Windows PC called Win11-Home as well as an Android based smartphone. You can also see the first sync date and time as well as the last time that device was synchronized with your account.
If the last successful sync date was a long time ago, then there is a good chance that you are no longer using your Outlook account on that device. Or it may also be a case of that device not being powered on or logged into your email account for a long period of time.
If you have an old device that you are no longer using, you can click on the trash can icon to have it removed from the list. This will not remove your account from the device but rather just from the items listed here.
The wipe all data option will remove your account data from the device, but that device will need to be powered on and connected to the internet to do so.
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