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Hello everyone,

I would like to know whether applications that already use SharePoint Lists as a database will be impacted by this update

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None of those updates should affect existing flows at all. In Power Apps offline mode is only for Dataverse. In Power Automate copilot only supports Dataverse at this point. And in SharePoint the deprecation of Classic mode should push more people to Power Apps and Power Automate.

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If your applications (Power Apps, Power Automate, or custom web apps) simply use SharePoint Lists as a data source via standard connectors or the Microsoft Graph API, they will not stop working. SharePoint Lists themselves are not going away.

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Hi@gikido,

While update brings good news, but sometimes (may be more frequent) bring some bad news too.

There is a POV on how big your ecosystem is plus how much customization you have done so far in your overall ecosystem. In some of my previous organzations I saw some good practices (I participated also) - whenever a new update was there, a regression testing was a compulsory one to make sure mission critical applications are not impacted anyway, this is a proactive preventive measure to make ourselves safer.

In my POV, here are the minimum stuff we can justify and bring into attention: I will divide each update into two points - one is Benefit and the other is Side Effect (we should be concern of):

These Power Platform 2026 updates bring important improvements but also some side effects and considerations you should be aware of:

Power Apps Offline Usability:

Benefit: Enables apps to work reliably offline and sync automatically, supporting real-world scenarios with intermittent connectivity.

Side Effect: Existing apps may require testing and redesign to handle offline data caching, sync conflicts, and data consistency properly.

Power Automate AI Flow Building:

Benefit: AI-assisted flow creation reduces manual effort and speeds up automation development.

Side Effect: Users may face a learning curve adapting to AI-driven flow design, and complex flows might still need manual adjustments. There is also some dependency on AI accuracy and availability. Consistent prompting should be a matter because one prompt may give a solution and other prompt may ruin your first results.

SharePoint Classic Retirement:

Side Effect: Classic add-ins and ACS retiring in April 2026 means many existing SharePoint customizations and integrations will break if not migrated. This requires planning, redevelopment, and testing to move to modern Power Platform, SPFx, and Microsoft Graph-based solutions.

Benefit: Modern frameworks offer better performance, security, and integration capabilities.

Particulary and more specifically, if you have any SharePoint integration/customization, I would suggest to do a little test on that.

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@gikido,

Adding to @Pstork1's response, if you are simply using SharePoint as a data source for Power Apps and modern views for any access to SharePoint natively, then you will not encounter any differences (I am in this position with a number of customers and will experience no changes). If you are doing more than this, you might have a read of the other responses.

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Hi @gikido,

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