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Make power BI desktop fully compatible with ARM CPU, such as snapdragon

Submitted by on ‎05-05-2025 05:45 PM

Considering the most powerful and versatile machines are being built on ARM processors and many developers preferring these machines due to the extended battery life, or performance per watt, I think it would be critical for Microsoft to start developing Power BI Desktop to be fully compatible with ARM64 processors. Windows ARM with a snapdragon processor is a great machine. It is where all machines are going. It's time for Power BI Desktop to get up to speed with everything else.

Status: Completed

As of the October 2025 release, Power BI Desktop is supported on ARM PCs  that have the 2025-09 Cumulative Update installed (KB5065789).

Read more: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/blog/power-bi-october-2025-feature-summary/#post-31333-_Toc211268347

 

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Karim-Benabd
Regular Visitor
‎06-05-2025 12:31 PM
@mvalb Check Microsoft Store. There is an ARM version of Power BI you can install. I am using it in a Windows 11 ARM virtual machine by Paralles in macOS 15.
Stinkys
Advocate II
Advocate II
‎06-05-2025 08:28 PM
@Karim-Benabd have you had any issues with visuals such as "Error fetching data for this visual" since March? Issues identified in this thread - https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Issues/March-2025-Update-Error-fetching-data-for-this-visu... and (at least for me) only for data read from local files CSV or Excel.
ggargan
Frequent Visitor
‎06-16-2025 01:28 AM
Do we know if there are any updates on this? I had the same issue and had to downgrade to the Feb release. Been holding off upgrading but wondering if there has been any movement on this?
picander
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎06-18-2025 05:56 AM

I am really struggling, with part of my DEV team with Lenovo SNAPDRAGON - we are stucked on the February 2025 version, but now some features (Azure Maps) stopped functioning as well, so we need to Update to newer Power BI Version. We are considering all switching back to x64 machines, but what a waste... Microsoft, help! The issue is related to Date Table (used in slicers) apparently...

Stinkys
Advocate II
Advocate II
‎06-18-2025 03:25 PM
@picander I performed a quick test of Windows Insider Programme Canary channel a couple of weeks ago and it resolved my Power BI report that was previously broken from the March update. It's not ideal but you could try that. Just keep in mind that your devs would need to reinstall Windows to leave the Insider Programme. Or get them to spin up a VM in Hyper-V and use that - I had good times trying to get the network interface working for W11 initial setup too.
picander
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎06-23-2025 11:38 PM
@Stinkys - Thank you for the suggestions! The best option considering work time / risk is indeed swapping all computers. It is very easy to reproduce, create a simple date table related to any other Fact_table, create a slicer from the date table (select option "Between"), and add a visual with any column of your Fact_Table, move the date table slicer period and you will get a “Error fetching data for this visual”. This happens also when date slicer are used in filters.
picander
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎06-23-2025 11:38 PM
@Stinkys - Thank you for the suggestions! The best option considering work time / risk is indeed swapping all computers. It is very easy to reproduce, create a simple date table related to any other Fact_table, create a slicer from the date table (select option "Between"), and add a visual with any column of your Fact_Table, move the date table slicer period and you will get a “Error fetching data for this visual”. This happens also when date slicer are used in filters.
Grandted
Regular Visitor
‎07-04-2025 02:00 AM
Microsoft are really pushing the Surface Laptop 7 with Snapdragon ARM and I think it's a great peace of hardware, but stuff like this really have to be solved prior or at least soon after a release. We are a lot of Power BI Developers running Surface Laptops and the lack of support for this platform is a big failure for Microsoft at the moment.
tjd
Impactful Individual
Impactful Individual
‎07-05-2025 01:13 PM
Just downloaded PowerBI Desktop 2.144.1378.0 64-bit (June 2025). It does NOT fix the problem!
Shalaby
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎07-08-2025 01:05 PM

I followed exactly what was written by @Stinkys above.

 

I used an insider copy of windows (Canary channel) with the latest version of Power BI Desktop (June.2025) and It worked like charm!!!!.

Host system: Parallels on Apple M1 Silicon Macbook Pro

Windows: Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview

OS Build: 27891.1000

Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.121.0

PowerBI Desktop version: 2.144.1378.0 64-bit (June 2025)

 

This was very easy as before that it was a Pain in the neck to stay on Feb.2025 PowerBI Desktop version just because of just using a Date filter visual!!. So all perfect now.