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The next evolution of in-report Copilot on the mobile app is now available in preview: a full conversational chat experience that lets you summarize, inquire, and analyze report data directly from your phone and tablet. Previously, in-report Copilot on the mobile app supported summaries and predefined prompts. This made it easy to get a quick overview but limited how far users could go when they wanted to explore their data more deeply. With this update, in-report Copilot on the mobile app moves to a full chat experience, bringing the same chat‑based capabilities you know from Power BI service, optimized for mobile and grounded in the report you’re viewing. Figure: Using the in-report Copilot in mobile app to answer on-the-go data questions. Getting started Every report that  meets Copilot requirements in Power BI  has the Copilot button in its header, ready to assist you with just a single tap. In the chat pane you can: Generate a summary of the current report Ask a question ...

Power BI Desktop visuals now start with a modern look. This preview introduces an updated base theme aligned with  Fluent 2 , featuring subtitles, uniform padding, style presets, and a grey canvas background at 1920×1080 by default. Charts display smooth lines; slicers default to dropdown mode, and buttons have a refreshed appearance without manual formatting. Figure: Modern default report page with updated base theme (Fluent 2 styling). This update is designed to let you produce polished reports without having to use the formatting pane each time you include a visual. Let’s take a deeper look into what’s changed with this new default experience. Canvas and background updates The default canvas size increases to 1920×1080, giving you more space to work with. Only new pages use this setting—the initial page in a report retains the previous default size of 1280×720. The wallpaper and background are now shades of grey, providing better contrast when you add visuals to the page. This s...

Welcome to the  Power BI March 2026 Feature Summary —and welcome to  FabCon! As FabCon gets underway, this month’s update reflects the momentum we’re seeing across Power BI and the conversations happening with customers right now. March brings a thoughtful set of improvements across Copilot, reporting, modeling, and data connectivity—focused on making everyday authoring smoother, visuals more expressive, and analytics experiences more flexible and open. Whether you’re refining reports, enabling more interactive analytics, or modernizing semantic models, there’s plenty to explore in this release—and we’re excited to keep the conversation going throughout FabCon. Contents General Deprecation of Old File Picker Experience in Power BI Desktop QuickBooks Online Connector Retirement Copilot and AI Copilot pane user experience update Copilot feedback update Reporting AI Narrative auto refresh Translytical task flows (Generally Available) Modern visual defaults and customizing theme i...