Concept: Mobile Devices and Features
You can enable Workday mobile apps to make it easier for users to complete many self-service tasks on their mobile phones and tablets. Workday provides mobile apps for:
- iPad and iPhone devices running iOS 18.0 or higher.
- Android devices running Android 13.0 or higher.
You can also use a supported mobile browser to access the Workday web application using this URL pattern:
https://<workdayhost>/<tenantname>/login.htmld
User Preferences
Users can access the
Change Preferences
task on Workday for Android, iPad, and iPhone, enabling them to change user preferences, including preferred:- Currency
- Language
- Locale
Tenant and Organization Switching
Users can add, manage, and sign in to multiple Workday tenants and organizations (example: Companies) from the Workday mobile apps. Users can switch between tenants on the Home page and on the sign-in page.
Feature Availability
Workday enables features on mobile by their domain security policies, which you can view for feature verification. A few features require additional mobile-specific setup. To ensure full functionality of features available on mobile, users should use the latest version of the Workday mobile app.
This table provides a high-level description of the main features you can make available on mobile. For more information about task and feature availability, you can run the
List Tasks Available on Mobile
report.Mobile Feature | Description |
|---|---|
Absence
| View absence balances and request, correct, and cancel absences. |
Benefits
| View and elect benefits during open enrollment. |
Careers
| Search for jobs and refer candidates. |
Dashboards
| View Workday-delivered and custom dashboards. |
Drive
| View files and access Workday-supported files in Google Drive. You can access non-supported files when you also have the appropriate third-party apps for the various file formats. |
Expenses
| Collect receipts and submit expense reports. To quickly create a new expense line item, users can share photos of receipts taken by their device camera with the native Workday app. |
Help
| Create and view support cases. Access and view Help articles. |
Inventory
| Manage inventory tasks. |
Journeys
| View and access all assigned Journeys. |
Learning
| Browse and view learning content. |
My Reports
| View report output and generated PDF documents. |
My Tasks
| Access the My Tasks inbox to complete mobile-enabled tasks. |
Notebooks
| Organize worker profiles and reports for quick reference (on Workday for iPad only). |
Notifications
| Receive mobile push notifications. |
Opportunity Marketplace
| View available internal work opportunities based on skills and interests. |
Org Chart
| View organization charts and metrics. |
Pay
| View payslips. |
People
| Run the Find Workers report to search for people. |
Projects
| View project details. |
Proxy Access to Non-Production Tenants
| Provide proxy access to your non-Production Workday environment for certain users. If you have off-site network restrictions that affect mobile applications, add the Proxy Access security group to the Employee Off Network access restrictions in your tenants. |
Recruiting (Staffing)
| Search for candidates and view details for candidates, jobs, and prospects. If you don't enable the Recruiting functional area, Workday displays Staffing instead. |
Requests
| Submit, manage, and approve requests, such as:
|
Schedule
| View the user's schedule. |
Student
| Access self-service tasks related to managing prospects and selecting courses. |
Surveys
| View details about active, closed, and scheduled surveys. Launch surveys you've saved as drafts. |
Team
| View team details and analytics. |
Team Schedule
| View and manage team schedules and monitor and take action on daily time exceptions, such as late check-ins, on the Attendance tab in the Team Schedule worklet (Manager view only). |
Time Tracking
| Enter time, check in or check out, and view schedules. |
Worksheets
| View workbooks and add comments. |