Microsoft retires the Power Automate mobile app; the monitored feeds stay quiet

A quiet night: the fifty-four tracked sources turned up no new product shutdowns and no dates moved. One new entry — Microsoft deprecates the Power Automate mobile app on 31 August 2026, pulling it from the app stores and cutting its push notifications, though the flows themselves keep running. Yesterday's two landings — the ChatGPT Atlas browser and Rails 7.2 security support — are now marked passed.

Another quiet night on the monitored registry: the fifty-four tracked sources produced no new product or service shutdowns, and no sunset dates moved. Tonight’s addition comes from the archive backfill — an imminent, already-confirmed deprecation that Microsoft published on its own Power Platform page and our adapter had flagged.

Microsoft deprecates the Power Automate mobile app. Effective 31 August 2026, the Power Automate app for iOS and Android is deprecated: Microsoft removes it from the Apple App Store and Google Play, stops updating and supporting it, stops sending it push notifications, and disables the home-screen “run a flow” widget. The reassuring part is that this is a surface, not the product — all existing cloud flows keep running, nothing is modified or disabled, and Approvals still work. What breaks is the on-phone experience: running button flows, checking run history, responding to approvals, or getting push alerts from the dedicated app. Microsoft points each of those to something that already exists — Approvals move to the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams, flow management and instant flows move to the Power Automate portal in a mobile browser, and makers should swap “Send me a mobile notification” actions for a Teams post or an email. Full detail on the entry.

Every entry with a sunset date inside 30 days was re-checked against its primary source tonight; all eight are unchanged.

Now passed

The two items that reached their date yesterday, 9 August, are now marked passed on the board:

ChatGPT Atlas browser — OpenAI’s standalone AI browser is retired; the browser-based agentic capability now lives inside ChatGPT, and any local Atlas data not exported beforehand is gone.
Rails 7.2 — end of security support. A 7.2 app still runs, but security fixes stop being backported; the path back onto a supported line is an upgrade to Rails 8.x.

Still counting down

Relay — 15 August, the app shuts down.
Google Content API for Shopping — 18 August, end-of-life.
OpenAI Assistants API — 26 August, removed from the API.
OCI DevOps OL7 build runners — 28 August.
GitHub Spark, Flowise, the New Relic drop-filter-rules API, and now the Power Automate mobile app — all 31 August.

Further out, OpenSSL 3.0 (7 September), the OpenAI Sora 2 video API (24 September), the Gemini 2.5 model family (from 2 October) and the new Cloudflare Workers KV date (15 October) are on the calendar too. The full list, with countdowns, lives on the calendar.