24.6 Mobile Layouts
Report mobile layout (Desktop):
- Open the page › View › Mobile layout.
- A phone-shaped canvas appears with a Page visuals pane listing the visuals on the page.
- Drag visuals onto the phone canvas: KPI cards first, then one or two key charts. Resize to fit the width.
- Format the mobile version separately if needed (some formatting can be changed for mobile only).
- Return with View › Mobile layout again. The Power BI mobile app uses the mobile layout automatically in portrait mode.
Dashboard mobile layout (Service): open the dashboard › Edit › Mobile layout › unpin/arrange tiles for phones › switch back to Web layout.
Ravindra Bagale's Tip
Friends, many students assume the desktop layout will look fine on phones. Build a mobile layout for the key pages, with only the most important visuals, and test it on an actual phone with the Power BI app. Remember this rule.
Ravindra Bagale's Tip – मराठी
मित्रांनो, बऱ्याच students ना वाटतं desktop layout phones वरही चांगला दिसेल. मुख्य pages साठी फक्त सगळ्यात महत्त्वाचे visuals असलेला mobile layout बनवा, आणि Power BI app वापरून खऱ्या phone वर test करा. हा नियम लक्षात ठेवा.
Ravindra Bagale's Tip – हिंदी
दोस्तों, बहुत से students मान लेते हैं कि desktop layout phones पर भी ठीक दिखेगा. मुख्य pages के लिए सिर्फ़ सबसे ज़रूरी visuals वाला mobile layout बनाओ, और Power BI app से असली phone पर test करो. यह नियम याद रखो.
What the phone and the app are for
The desktop report is where the decision is built. The phone is where it is checked when the person is not at a desk. Shraddha on the dark-store floor does not get a 16:9 matrix. She gets the cards you placed in the mobile layout: the promise, the miss count, the store name. If you skip the mobile layout, the phone invents a layout by shrinking the desktop page, and the name falls off the bottom. She is back to guessing.
Rani's phone is the dashboard mobile layout, not the report one. Tiles she does not need on the way to the car stay unpinned from that layout. Featured and favourite stars do not do this job for the team. They are personal. A team landing place is the app. City managers can be an audience that includes the report and the cockpit. A finance audience includes the finance report and does not include a tile of Kothrud's cancels. That split is what the business gets from an app: the right Monday, not every Monday you know how to draw.
After a publish, two objects exist, and both can be wrong in different ways. The report can be right while the pinned tile still shows last week's filter. The tile can be right while the refresh failed and both are old. The habit is small: open the cockpit the next morning and read one fraction out loud against the report. 32 of 40, or it is not. If you cannot do that, you do not have a dashboard yet. You have a poster in a workspace.
Fix common mistakes
| Wrong result | Reason | Correction |
|---|---|---|
| Phone shows tiny desktop page | No mobile layout | View › Mobile layout |
| Too many visuals on phone | Copied everything | Only key KPIs |
About this data: This table uses columns: Wrong result, Reason, Correction. Values shown are the lesson examples already on this page (not a new dataset).
Practise independently
Practice task
Build a mobile layout with 3 cards and the City chart.
Practice file (fictional): visuals_orders_apr_may_2026.csv
Hints
- Drag from Page visuals pane.
Solution
Phone view: Sales ₹2,100, Orders 8, AOV ₹300, City chart.
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