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Power BI April 2026 Feature Summary

Welcome to the April Power BI update! Power BI’s April 2026 update is here, bringing continued improvements across Copilot and AI, reporting, visuals, and modeling. This release includes more flexibility when working with layouts and visuals, expanded Copilot experiences—especially on mobile—and several preview features that continue to enhance performance and authoring workflows. You’ll also find …

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Power BI Desktop April 2020 Feature Summary

We have a ton of great updates this release! We’re excited to announce a new visual personalization feature to allow your end-users to explore and personalize visuals all within the consumption view of a report! Also this month, if you’re interested in fast refresh scenarios, you will find these new features very useful: change detection for page refresh and support for relative time filters in minutes and hours. On top of this, we are releasing several other features, including rectangular lasso select across visuals, conditional formatting for totals and subtotals, Direct Query support for AI visuals: decomposition tree and key influencers, several updates to Q&A, and more!

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How Public Agencies Keep Communities Informed on COVID-19 with Power BI

As the world grapples with COVID-19, it’s critical that public agencies working to stop the spread of the virus are equipped to give citizens timely and accurate information. Government agencies and non-profits are handling large amounts of data that are changing rapidly, and many of them are turning to Power BI to share data about COVID-19 with citizens in easy-to-understand maps and dashboards.

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