6 Canvas Apps Updates Worth Knowing About Right Now

The Power Apps team has been busy. Across the next few months, a handful of meaningful Canvas Apps updates are landing — some already live, some rolling out shortly. Here's what's coming and what it means in practice.

1. The Modern Data Grid is Generally Available

The Data Grid — Power Apps' Fluent-based replacement for the classic Table control — is now GA across all environments. If you're still on the old Table control, it's time to move.

What you get: automatic virtualization for 2,000+ record datasets, sortable and searchable columns, and single- or multi-row selection out of the box. It's noticeably more capable and noticeably better looking.

2. Copilot Row Summaries in the Data Grid (GA: End of August)

Coming at the end of August, Copilot will be able to generate a plain-language summary of any row in the Data Grid. Instead of clicking into a record to understand it, users get a readable summary right in the grid.

This is a small UX lift with a real impact for data-heavy apps — especially in operational or review workflows where users are scanning dozens of records.

3. Modern Controls: 180+ Fixes and Fluent Polish (Available Now)

If you've been holding back on modern controls because of bugs, this wave should help. The latest monthly update ships 180+ bug fixes, plus a quality-of-life win that makers have wanted for a while: you can now double-click a Label to edit its text directly in Studio without hunting through the properties pane.

These updates are rolling on a monthly cadence, so the gap between modern and classic controls continues to close.

4. Fresh, Fluent-Ready App Templates (Mid-August)

The built-in canvas app template library is getting a refresh. The new templates are built on modern Fluent controls with responsive layouts that adapt across screen sizes by default — so you're not inheriting a layout designed for desktop and retrofitting it for mobile.

Rollout to all environments is expected by mid-August 2026.

5. Smarter Lookup Batching for Faster Screens (Early September)

This one is under the hood but worth flagging. Power Apps is adding automatic batching for Lookup calls — instead of each Lookup firing a separate round-trip to the data source, multiple calls get bundled into one. The result is fewer network calls and faster screen loads.

Targeting full rollout in early September. Once it's live, you'll need to save and republish your app for the improvement to kick in.

6. Faster App Launch via Smarter Connector Discovery (Mid-September)

Right now, every Canvas App launch fetches every connector the user has access to in the environment — even connectors the app never touches. A fix is coming in mid-September that limits that fetch to only the connectors the app actually uses.

Less data fetched at startup = faster app launch. Nothing to configure; it's a platform-level change.