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Changes in the August 2023 Power BI Desktop Update Part two of a three-part series of blogs
A holiday season update with only two small changes: new icons to switch between mobile and normal layout, and a new scaling option for bubble charts (surely on-object formatting will go live soon?). A summary of the August 2023 update changes You can switch more easily between mobile and desktop layout (this blog) New scaling options for bubble charts We've been creating our idiosyncratic monthly blogs on Power BI updates since November 2016, and also deliver online and classroom Power BI courses.

Changes in the August 2023 Power BI Desktop Update

Part two of a three-part series of blogs

A holiday season update with only two small changes: new icons to switch between mobile and normal layout, and a new scaling option for bubble charts (surely on-object formatting will go live soon?).

A summary of the August 2023 update changes
You can switch more easily between mobile and desktop layout (this blog)
New scaling options for bubble charts

We've been creating our idiosyncratic monthly blogs on Power BI updates since November 2016, and also deliver online and classroom Power BI courses.

Posted by Andy Brown on 26 August 2023

So here I am starting to design a report in desktop layout:

Note the new icons in the bottom left corner next to the page tabs!

Here's me creating a mobile view of the same report (the visual shown in the desktop version of the report is waiting to be dragged on):

Again, note the icons to switch between layouts.

So this is one of those changes which is extremely simple to show and explain!

I must admit I've never tried designing a report for mobile - even though Microsoft are obviously putting more effort into it, the interface still seems clunky. Maybe it's time for Power BI to have completely independent mobile and desktop report designers?

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A summary of the August 2023 update changes You can switch more easily between mobile and desktop layout (this blog) New scaling options for bubble charts

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