AdministratorAfter updating Power BI Desktop to the September 2026 release, Azure Maps stopped displaying in an existing report.
Other visuals, including tables and slicers, continued to work normally. However, the Azure Maps area remained blank, with neither the basemap nor the location markers appearing.
The affected version was 2.158.1177.0 (26.09). The report’s latitude and longitude field bindings and map display settings remained unchanged.
After installing the August 2026 version of Power BI Desktop and opening the same report, Azure Maps displayed correctly again.
In this case, the issue occurred in the September release but did not occur in the August release. This suggests a possible connection to the September update, although the exact cause has not yet been confirmed.
Microsoft EmployeeI'll send direct message to learn more, we are not aware of any new Azure Map issue at this point.
Advocate IHi mattlee ,
I've been eager to get my PBI desktop updated so I could check the same, and can now confirm I'm seeing the same issue. No changes in the report, and was working perfectly fine yesterday. I'm in the UK and everything in PBI service is still working okay for Azure map visuals (thankfully), but not showing in desktop. Screenshots below for reference.
PBI desktop:
Same visuals in same report in PBI service (I even republished it just to double-check, still appears as below):
Hope there's a fix soon, just glad it's not effecting our external customers (we distribute hundreds of reports in 'app owns data' embedded scenarios).