What's new and planned for Power Apps
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, see Microsoft Power Platform product documentation. For the latest release plans, see Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.
This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2020 through September 2020. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released (see Microsoft policy).
- For a list of the previous wave's release plans, see the 2019 release wave 2 release plan.
- For a list of the next wave's release plans, see the 2020 release wave 2 release plan.
In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the day of release.
This check mark (
) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for general availability.
Deep integration from Azure to Microsoft Teams
We're continuing to invest in better Microsoft Teams integration as well as improving the experience of Microsoft Azure developers on the platform.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build apps for Microsoft Teams with modern controls | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically |  Sep 17, 2020 |
- | To be announced |
| Customizable apps in the Microsoft Teams store | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 13, 2020 |
- | To be announced |
Excellent mobile, including offline
Power Apps is investing heavily in our mobile platform. We're combining canvas and model apps into a single front door, enhancing offline support, and improving mobile-specific user experiences across the board.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhanced capabilities and experience in offline mode | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | - | Apr 6, 2020 |
| Canvas and model-driven apps run on a single mobile application | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Mar 30, 2020 |
May 4, 2020 |
High velocity developers of all skill levels
Power Apps empowers every developer. We're adding full stack, low-code capabilities that help makers of all backgrounds test their features, ensure performance, and monitor usage.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instrument your canvas apps with Azure Application Insights | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 6, 2020 |
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| Modern solution import experience | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Sep 13, 2020 |
Mixed reality
Power Apps is helping digitize physical workflows via mixed reality and connecting you to the physical world through new geospatial capabilities like maps.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add interactive maps and use data binding | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 23, 2020 |
- | |
| Measure distances and volumes in the real world with mixed reality | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 23, 2020 |
- | - |
| See how a predefined shape fits in your real-world space in mixed reality | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 23, 2020 |
- | - |
| Use an autocomplete text box for street addresses | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 23, 2020 |
- | |
| View 3D content or images in the real world with mixed reality | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 23, 2020 |
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| View 3D models and content | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 23, 2020 |
- | - |
Power Apps portals improvements
Power Apps portals are enabling low-code makers to roll out experiences to broad external audiences. We're continuing to advance portals capabilities as usage grows.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portal Checker enhancements | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Apr 1, 2020 |
| Support for additional entities in global search | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | - | Apr 1, 2020 |
| Power BI Embedded component in portal designer | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 14, 2019 |
- | Jun 1, 2020 |
| Support for Authorization Code flow for OpenID Connect based authentication providers | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | - | Aug 15, 2020 |
| Simplified themes in portals Studio | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Apr 1, 2020 |
- | Aug 16, 2020 |
| Simplified web page access management for Power Apps portals | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | To be announced |
| Simplified portal identity provider configuration | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 1, 2020 |
- | To be announced |
| Web APIs for CRUD operations on Common Data Service entities | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 16, 2020 |
- | To be announced |
Sophisticated apps on a unified platform
Power Apps combines the flexibility of a blank canvas that can connect to any data source with the power of rich forms, views, and dashboards modeled over data in Common Data Service.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improved data source experience and Common Data Service view are generally available | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 14, 2019 |
- | Apr 6, 2020 |
| Improved grid column filtering in Power Apps | End users, automatically | - | Feb 3, 2020 |
Apr 6, 2020 |
| Improvements to quick find search experience on a grid | End users, automatically | - | Feb 3, 2020 |
Apr 6, 2020 |
| Usability enhancements to editable grid | End users, automatically | - | Feb 3, 2020 |
Apr 6, 2020 |
| View selector usability enhancements | End users, automatically | - | Feb 3, 2020 |
Apr 6, 2020 |
| Enable creating and editing data in forms displayed as a modal dialog without navigating away | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Jan 29, 2020 |
- | May 4, 2020 |
| Save is always visible in the command bar on edit forms | End users, automatically | - | Jan 29, 2020 |
May 4, 2020 |
| Chart and dashboard styling improvements for model-driven apps | End users, automatically | - | Feb 10, 2020 |
May 11, 2020 |
| Improvements to model-driven apps | End users, automatically | - | Feb 10, 2020 |
May 11, 2020 |
| Form settings in modern designer | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Jun 7, 2020 |
- | Jun 7, 2020 |
| App for Outlook checker | End users, automatically | - | Aug 16, 2020 |
To be announced |
| Large file and image support in model-driven forms | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Apr 20, 2020 |
- | To be announced |
* Some features are available for you to opt-in as part of early access on February 3, 2020, including all mandatory changes that impact end users. Learn more about early access.
Description of Enabled for column values:
End users, automatically: These features include change(s) to the user experience for end users and are enabled automatically.
Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
End users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their end users.
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