What’s new in Power Apps: March 2025 Feature Update
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AI-powered Development
Check out some of our latest improvements in this month’s Power Apps Pulse!
This month we are so excited to share some small but mighty improvements that are sure to make your life easier! We’ve made it simple and intuitive to reorder screens and controls in the canvas designer, we’ve brought even more power and understanding about Power Fx formulas to Copilot, and now you have full editing capability of existing tables right in the data workspace.
Announcing the winners of the 2025 Powerful Devs Hack Together
The 2025 Powerful Devs Hack Together brought developers together to build secure and scalable AI-powered solutions using Power Platform, Azure, AI Builder, and more. We are pleased to announce the winners across 8 different categories for this year’s hack.
Inline editing user roles and user needs in the Plan designer
Another UX improvement coming to the Plan designer – Makers can now edit user roles and user stories directly inline! Traditionally, editing the user stories section required typing in a prompt to copilot and a complete regeneration of the entire section. Now, with inline editing, makers can make add, remove, or edit the Requirements section, including user role, user role description, and user needs.
Modernized Create Page
We’ve introduced a refreshed Create page in the Power Apps maker portal, continuing our effort to modernize and streamline the maker experience. Below is a quick overview of what’s new:
- Cohesive Look and Feel: The redesigned Create page ensures a cleaner interface and a more consistent user experience.
- Improved “Start From” Experiences: We’ve refined the “Start with” options to give you the most reliable and up-to-date starting points, aligning these entry points with the Apps page.
- Updated Blank Canvas Flow: The “Start with a blank canvas” flow has been streamlined. Makers can choose their preferred app size—responsive, tablet, or phone—right from the start and head straight into the canvas studio.
Data workspace now supports edit existing tables
In addition to creating new tables, you can now fully edit existing tables in the data workspace. To update the schema or data of your existing tables, select add existing table, pick the table you need, and then simply edit the table fully inline with the ERD view of your data model. No more need to jump back and forth between the table hub and the data workspace. You can now fully manage your tables and relationships in just one experience.
Enterprise-Grade Governance
Introducing Managed Availability for Power Platform, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability, continuous uptime, and seamless failover for mission-critical applications and AI workloads
Managed Availability is a new suite of capabilities designed to ensure that your Dynamics 365 applications and Power Platform resources, including Power Apps, Power Automate flows, and Copilot Studio agents, remain highly available and resilient. Managed Availability leverages Azure Availability Zones to replicate production environments across multiple physically separated datacenters, providing near zero data loss and rapid failover in case of failures.
Additionally, Managed Availability offers automated backups with options for extended retention and Self-Serve Disaster Recovery (DR), enabling you to define, test, and execute cross-region failovers. With Self-Serve DR, a copy of your environment is seamlessly maintained in a secondary region, ensuring business continuity even in the face of large-scale disruptions. For AI-driven workflows, this ensures that your Copilot Studio agents remain available, responsive, and resilient, protecting them against unforeseen events.
Power Platform Solution Assessment
This review offers a comprehensive assessment, covering every aspect of the solution, from functionality and user experience to its alignment with overall business goals.
The assessment provides actionable insights and tailored recommendations, helping users make informed decisions that lead to more efficient, scalable, and robust Power Platform solutions.
Intelligent Apps
Model-driven Copilot Chat now supports multimedia content!
Enhance your Copilot chat conversations with dynamic and fun multimedia content, including images, videos, and cards. Customized Zero Prompt experience, combined with multimedia content, can revolutionize boring text-based chat interactions and take them to the next level!
Announcing Power CAT Tools, a comprehensive suite of tools designed to enhance the development experience within Power Platform
The Power CAT Tools app streamlines your development workflow by automating essential tasks and providing insightful guidance based on real-world best practices. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just getting started, Power CAT Tools offers valuable resources to help you build robust and efficient solutions with greater ease.
Fill Forms Faster with AI: Paste Images & Add Files
The data entry agent in Power Apps and Dynamics 365 model-driven apps makes filling out forms quicker and easier by reducing tedious manual data entry. A study with information workers showed that AI assistance enabled 29% faster form completion, with 95% preferring it over manual entry. Now, based on your feedback, we’re introducing four powerful new capabilities—giving you more flexibility, visibility, and expanded input options. These enhancements are available in your apps today:
- Smart paste now supports images – paste screenshots or handwritten content, and AI will extract relevant details for your form.
- Expanded file support – add .txt, .csv, .docx, .pdf, or image files (.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp) to get inline AI suggestions.
- New AI data entry toolbar – review and manage AI-generated suggestions more easily.
- More control for makers – makers can now specify fields that should always require human input, ensuring AI assistance focuses on where it’s most valuable.
Try out these enhancements today! Read the main blog to learn more.
Learning and Documentation Updates
Training Paths and Labs
Updated Training
- Perform common actions with client script in Power Platform
- Author a basic formula that uses tables and records in a Power Apps canvas app
- Build your first canvas app with Power Apps
- Export data from Dataverse and use Microsoft Excel to edit records
- Get started with Power Apps component framework
- Reduce complexity in your data model with Dataverse table relationships
- Use Microsoft Word and Excel templates with Dataverse
- Work with external data in a Power Apps canvas app
- Work with relational data in a Power Apps canvas app
