{"id":11773,"date":"2020-10-30T12:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/mobile-offline-for-power-apps\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:57:10","slug":"mobile-offline-for-power-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/mobile-offline-for-power-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Offline for Power Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the 2020 Wave 2 release, we made generally available offline capabilities for model driven apps for users of Power Apps. Makers and administrators can now configure apps to be available offline on a user\u2019s device, and users can continue to complete their tasks against the local cache on their phone even with intermittent or no network connectivity. When the network is re-established, the users\u2019 changes are seamlessly synchronized back to the cloud. The capabilities and enhancements below are in the Power Platform and are thus, applicable for both users of Power Apps as well as Dynamics 365 apps.<\/p>\n

So, how does a maker get started?<\/strong>
\nFor the model driven app that you want to make available on your users\u2019 devices for offline use, you must take these four core steps:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Enable for offline the entities that your app uses. Most of the standard entities are already setup for offline but you\u2019ll want to make sure that any custom entities are enabled for mobile offline synchronization. You can do this in your app settings on make.powerapps.com<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0In the Power Platform Admin center, create a mobile offline profile that determines exactly what data is stored on a users\u2019 mobile device<\/p>\n

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3. Add users that can access the app offline to the profile<\/p>\n

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4. Enable the model driven app for \u2018mobile offline\u2019 and assign the profile to your app<\/p>\n

The detailed step by step instructions are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several enhancements have been made to both the configuration experience and synchronization infrastructure to the mobile offline capabilities that were available in Dynamics 365. These enhancements are rolling out to all regions in November.<\/p>\n

The configuration is streamlined<\/strong> for makers and administrators within the Power Platform Admin Center with intuitive creation and maintenance of offline profiles. Filters on exactly what data should be synchronized to users\u2019 devices can now be done via expressions.<\/p>\n

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\nSynchronization<\/strong> capabilities<\/strong> have also been enhanced yielding to an overall faster and better experience for users on their mobile phones:<\/p>\n