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This month's update doesn't include many changes - the biggest being probably the emergence of the hierarchical slicer from preview.
- Power BI June 2020 update - summary of new features
- Hierarchical slicers
- Much-improved mobile report designer (this blog)
- Individual dots on line charts
- Automatic refresh
- AI insights in Query Editor
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Posted by Andy Brown on 28 June 2020
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Much-improved mobile report designer
So the good news is that the Power BI designer for mobile reports is much better, but I still wonder whether it has any point. Remember that there's a really good Power BI app:

The Power BI app for an Apple phone (the Android one I assume looks the same).
This allows you to show dashboards and reports on your phone:

Here's what a report NOT designed for mobile looks like in the app on an IPhone. With quality like this, why would you bother creating a mobile-only report?
So allowing for the fact that I don't think it's worth creating mobile-only reports, I'll now show how doing this is much easier now.
Creating a mobile-only report
To create a report for viewing on a mobile, first create your normal report:

Here my normal report contains a few choice visuals.
Now choose to view it in mobile layout view:

Click on the icon above.
You can then drag visuals onto your mobile report:

Drag visuals from the palette on the right onto your mobile phone "screen"!
The biggest difference is that the grid is now much finer:

Previously you only had a width of about 10 squares, so it was impossible to fit anything in!
Overlaying visuals
One other improvement is that you can overlay visuals:

Here one visual is partly obscuring another.
The reason you might want to do this is if you're using bookmarks to change what a user sees (for example, when they tap on a button that you've created).
To summarise: the finer-meshed grid means that this part of Power BI is now usable, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you should use it!
- Power BI June 2020 update - summary of new features
- Hierarchical slicers
- Much-improved mobile report designer (this blog)
- Individual dots on line charts
- Automatic refresh
- AI insights in Query Editor