What's new and planned for Power Apps

This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2024 through September 2024. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.

For a list of the next wave's release plans, go to 2024 release wave 2 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 date of release.

This check mark ( ) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access, and general availability.

Building modern apps

Build responsive apps that use modern controls and have offline capabilities.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	Early access*	General availability
Modern screen templates for canvas apps	Users, automatically	-	-	Sep 22, 2024
Use the Power Platform Environment Settings app	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 20, 2024	-	Jan 31, 2025
Display AI-generated app descriptions in model-driven apps	Users, automatically	-	-	Jun 2, 2024
Understand canvas apps functionality through code view	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Jun 2, 2024	-	Mar 17, 2025
Modernize maker experience security settings	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	May 28, 2024	-	Jul 14, 2024
Work together in real time to create canvas apps	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Jun 23, 2024	-	Oct 6, 2024
Quickly start an app when launching Power Apps mobile	Users, automatically	-	Mar 18, 2024	May 19, 2024
Import .msapp files in Power Apps	Users, automatically	-	-	Sep 8, 2024

Copilot for Power Apps makers and users

Makers and users can leverage AI to build apps and bring natural language to their own apps to make users more productive.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	Early access*	General availability
Explain this Power Fx	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Apr 14, 2024
Use environment routing for Copilot	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	-	-	Aug 18, 2024
Provide welcome content for Copilot Studio	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	-	-	Aug 18, 2024
Get help filling forms in model-driven apps	Users, automatically	-	-	Apr 1, 2024
Visualize and work with complex data using copilot	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Jun 23, 2024	-	Sep 24, 2024
Manage Copilot	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Aug 28, 2024	-	-
Review column suggestions from Copilot in model-driven apps	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Aug 11, 2024	-	Oct 21, 2024
Bring your custom copilots into Power Apps canvas apps	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Jul 15, 2024	-	-
Get field suggestions with Copilot in Power Apps	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Jun 2, 2024

Enable enterprise scale

Enhance Power Apps Studio with capabilities that allow building large scale and complex enterprise apps.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	Early access*	General availability
Set up and create pipelines in Power Apps seamlessly	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Mar 17, 2024	-	Apr 30, 2024
Direct new makers to their own developer environments	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Aug 22, 2023	-	Apr 24, 2024
Make direct calls to SQL Server stored procedures	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Mar 10, 2024	-	Jul 28, 2024
Use environment routing for Power Automate Desktop	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Sep 30, 2024	-	Nov 17, 2024

* You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on February 5, 2024, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.

Description of Enabled for column values:

• Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.

• Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.

• 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 users.

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