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Power BI on a mac
Hi Mikes128 ,
Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Fabric Community.
Thank you SamsonTruong and BhavinVyas3003 and for the prompt response.
Whatever SamsonTruong and BhavinVyas3003 said was correct. Currently, Power BI Desktop is only supported on Windows systems and is not available for direct installation on Mac.
If you want to use Power BI Desktop on your Mac computer, you can consider running it on a virtual machine or cloud service. Additionally, here is an idea (https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Ideas/Power-BI-desktop-for-mac-URGENT/idi-p/4627918) similar to yours that you can vote for. If an idea receives high votes from other customers, it is likely that the Microsoft Product Team will consider it when designing future versions.
If this post helps, then please consider Accepting as solution to help the other members find it more quickly, don't forget to give a "Kudos" – I’d truly appreciate it!
Thank you!!
Adding one option for Mac users who find this thread later:
Power BI Desktop still cannot be installed natively on macOS. A Windows VM or the Power BI Service is still required to create, edit, and refresh reports.
For the narrower use case of inspecting existing PBIX or ABF files, I built PBIXRay, a native macOS app. It can inspect semantic model metadata, DAX, Power Query, data sources, VertiPaq statistics, stored table data and report structure locally.
It is not a replacement for Power BI Desktop and cannot create or modify reports. It is intended for situations where you receive a PBIX file and need to understand its contents without starting a Windows VM or uploading the file.
More information: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6787160588