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Power BI Desktop updates for November 202 Part two of a four-part series of blogs
The November 2025 update permanently introduces the new card visual, makes changes to the image visual and brings automatic column widths to matrices. Changes introduced for the November 2025 Power BI update The seal of authority for the new card visual (this blog) The image visual gets its own icon, and souped-up features Matrix columns can now expand to fit the width of a visual

Power BI Desktop updates for November 202

Part two of a four-part series of blogs

The November 2025 update permanently introduces the new card visual, makes changes to the image visual and brings automatic column widths to matrices.

Changes introduced for the November 2025 Power BI update
The seal of authority for the new card visual (this blog)
The image visual gets its own icon, and souped-up features
Matrix columns can now expand to fit the width of a visual

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 November 2025

The new card visual has finally muscled out its predecessor:

The old Card and Multi-card visuals have disappeared, to be replaced by the new Card visual.

I covered the new card visual when it was first announced way back in June 2023:

An example of the sort of results you can get with the "new" visual.

Since this blog, there's one big new feature - you can now have a couple of different pictures on a card:

The top picture is to do with one of the statistics being displayed on the card and is called a callout image; the bottom one is to do with the card itself, and is called a hero image.

You can set the hero image as one of the main formatting properties of a card visual:

Expand the Image card above to apply a picture to the entire card.

By contrast, to set the image for any statistic you have to expand the Callout card first:

If you're setting images for individual statistics you can choose whether to display them for all of the statistics, or just one of them.

I think Microsoft occasionally hold on to legacy features in Power BI Desktop for too long, so it's good to see the card situation being finally resolved.

Parts of this blog
Changes introduced for the November 2025 Power BI update The seal of authority for the new card visual (this blog) The image visual gets its own icon, and souped-up features Matrix columns can now expand to fit the width of a visual