8 new features recently released to market
Power Apps 2025 release wave 1
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Device-optimized screens increase the performance and reliability of your canvas apps on iOS and Android devices. Some controls also offer improved gesture support and a user experience that matches closer to the design language of the operating system.
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Some customers have decided against using the Power Apps mobile app because of low user interface (UI) performance. Scrolling, transitions, visual glitches, and occasional UI failures are symptoms of a UI that isn’t built for the native operating system.
This feature automatically converts canvas apps from web-based technology to React Native, while keeping all the same business logic in place. As a result, canvas apps feel more responsive, are of higher quality, use modern UI conventions such as swipe-to-delete, and have better scrolling capabilities.
Note: We will incrementally use the most popular UI controls with native equivalents on mobile devices. The top ten controls account for more than 50% of all app screens. The result is less complex screens that continue to run in the Webview (a specialized web browser) for some time. However, there are some very compelling scenarios that will run 100% as native UI.
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The new capabilities and experience of Copilot’s form fill assistance feature make it faster and easier for users to fill forms based on copied text content, images, files, and emails.
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Copilot now helps you fill out forms quickly using images, files, and emails. Model-driven app users will be able to add a file (including images) or email for Copilot to generate form field suggestions, saving valuable time on a tedious task. The form filling experience has been improved based on your feedback, giving you more control over suggestions.
Admins can manage this capability through Power Platform admin center.
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Public preview date moved to Feb 2025 General availability date updated to To be announced |
Jan 22, 2025 |
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By supporting existing tables when visualizing a complex data model, the entity relationship diagram (ERD) data experience will unblock makers to build actual meaningful business solutions on top of their existing data assets. With Copilot assistance, makers can easily find existing tables relevant to their data modeling requirements and build more robust business applications. With the ERD visualization of tables and relationships, makers can review new and existing tables side-by-side and define meaningful connections between them with a simple drag and drop interaction.
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Are you tired of creating new tables, only to discover that they duplicate existing ones in your environment? Say hello to a smarter way of designing data models using the Copilot-assisted ERD designer. Now, instead of starting from scratch, you can leverage your existing tables to build more robust data models. Here’s how it works: Simply type out your requirements in natural language, and Copilot will craft a multi-table data model that incorporates both new and existing tables. Need to find relevant tables quickly? Copilot’s recommendations have you covered and will locate the right tables in seconds. Once you’ve assembled your tables, switch to the ERD view. There, you can review your new and existing tables side-by-side. While editing existing tables in the ERD view isn't fully supported yet, you can create lookups into the existing tables in a simple drag-and-drop interaction to define meaningful connections between tables.
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Public preview date moved to Jan 2025 General availability date moved to Mar 2025 |
Oct 31, 2024 |
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Adding an AI record summary will allow you to access important information easily, thereby making you more productive by saving time and effort.
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- You will be able to create a record summary prompt for any table in Power Apps (make.powerapps.com) easily via the guided prompt builder experience.
- You will be able to include relevant fields and information that users will need in the record summary.
- You will be able to test the summary online to ensure it meets your expectations.
- Record summary will be available to users in their forms for easy access to information.
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There can be a lot of legwork involved in detailing solutions to a business problem before you start to create apps, flows, and other objects that will solve your users' needs. Copilot is well versed in common solution architecture patterns and can take advantage of other sources such as images to add to the context of the problem. Copilot can help you create user roles, define role-specific requirements, and suggest data schema, apps, and other objects that would come together as a solution to the proposed business problem. You can collaborate with Copilot, iterating over user roles, requirements, schema, and objects to ensure the final solution is a great start for the business.
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Creating solutions to address business needs involves more than just developing an app. Solutions are a collection of objects from across the Power Platform that store data, provide end-user apps, and automate workflows. Regardless of the technology used to solve a business problem, the first step to success is defining your solution architecture to support various user roles and their requirements. This ensures you can build a solution that benefits your business. Copilot can now assist with detailing the scenario and requirement definitions, such as user roles, user requirements, data schemas to support data, and creating an overall solution architecture through proposed objects.
- Scenario and requirement definition: Begin with a description of your business problem and provide additional context like process diagrams, data models, or even screenshots of legacy apps. Copilot will use this input to draft user roles and requirements for the solution.
- Data modelling: Once aligned on requirements, Power Apps will propose a data model to support the solution and allow the maker to explore and make updates through a visual entity relationship diagram.
- Solution architecture: Copilot will recommend the types of apps and automation that will fit the requirements. In the initial release of this functionality, the recommendations will include canvas and model-driven apps, as well as cloud flows in Power Automate.
During the early phase of the public preview, these Copilot skills are off by default. To access these features, simply turn on the Try the new Power Apps experience toggle on the Power Apps home page. This will allow you to create and manage your plans.
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General availability date moved to May 2025 | Mar 14, 2025 |
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With Copilot, you can find, filter, and sort data more efficiently using natural language in views for model-driven apps, significantly reducing the time previously spent on advanced filtering and enhancing productivity.
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You can easily find, filter, and sort your data using natural language grid filtering, which eliminates the need for complex, advanced filters by allowing you to describe what you're looking for.
For example, if you ask for cases that are high priority with an overdue follow-up by date, this filters your view to only show those relevant cases. Using natural language saves time as you no longer need to use column filters or advanced filters.
Supported features:
- Filtering of records
- Sorting
- Text search
Please note that this feature is currently in preview. It will be enhanced with each weekly release and can be turned on through the admin setting 'Natural Language Grid and View Search'.
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General availability date moved to Jun 2025 | Apr 14, 2025 |
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The new, smart paste option in Copilot's form fill assistance feature makes it faster and easier for users to fill forms based on text content from any source. Users can simply copy the content, smart paste by selecting a button or using the keyboard shortcut, and receive inline suggestions within the form, based on the copied content.
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Users can select the smart paste button or use the keyboard shortcut to receive suggestions for fields. The suggestions appear inline in their model-driven app's form, based on text they've copied. The user can choose to accept or ignore the suggestions. This new, smart paste option makes it easier and faster to enter data in forms.
Admins can manage this capability through Power Platform admin center.
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Public preview date moved to Oct 2024 General availability date moved to Feb 2025 |
Nov 01, 2024 |
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Administrators are responsible for managing numerous resources within their organizations. It can be challenging for them to make informed decisions about these resources without a thorough understanding of their functions. By creating AI-generated descriptions for apps, we help administrators provide the necessary information to scale up and make informed decisions on a larger scale. This feature is enabled for all apps within Managed Environments.
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In app designer for model-driven apps, you can use AI to help you generate descriptions for your apps. You will have the option to generate an app description in the Publish dialog or in the App Settings panel. This will create a description that you can review and then save as part of the app. The AI-generated app description is also available to app users during the web player experience by hovering over the app name in the header.
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General availability date moved to Feb 2025 | Dec 04, 2024 |