Microsoft Power BI Phone Reports Are Now Generally Available

A preview of Power BI phone reports has been available since October 2016. The new phone-optimized reports feature, allows to tailor a portrait view of existing Power BI Desktop reports for mobile viewers.

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With mobile views of existing reports users can display data in a clear way on a small screen.

Once a report has been published it will be made available to all mobile users on any screen size – the scaling and resizing is handled automatically. On top of the custom view, also introduces a variety of features to enhance and optimize the experience of using reports on phones.

Since the preview, the company has further improved the reports feature. As Microsoft points out in a release blog post, ā€œif you have a lot of visualizations in a report you can now scroll the visualization pane to browse all available visualizations and add them to your phone layout.ā€ Also, visualizations that are now shown in the authoring pane are zoomed in ā€œso you can see them better and identify each oneā€.

Head to Microsoft“s blog post to see several animated GIFs that illustrate how Power BI Phone reports work.