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Helper IPowerBI Service - Hide sidebar in full screen mode
Super UserHi Transform121,
You’re seeing expected behavior. In the native Power BI Service, the global left sidebar (the service left rail) isn’t removed by Full screen on dashboards, and URL flags like ?chromeless=true or &navContentPaneEnabled=false don’t apply to Service views. Those flags only work in embedded scenarios (Secure embed or Power BI Embedded), not when you open content directly in app.powerbi.com. Microsoft’s own guidance and community replies align with this limitation. See: community confirmation you can’t hide Service chrome in full screen.
Quick solution
- There’s no supported switch to hide the Service sidebar for dashboards. If you need a truly chrome-less view, use an embedded view instead of the native Service:
- 1) Convert the dashboard to a report (single-page report that looks like your dashboard).
- 2) Use Secure embed (File → Embed report → Website or portal) and open the embed URL. You can then hide in-frame UI with parameters or embed settings (e.g., nav/page navigation). Docs: Secure embed for reports, settings: configure-report-settings.
- 3) Note: Secure embed works for reports, not dashboards. If you must keep dashboards, you’d need Power BI Embedded or Publish to web (public, not recommended). See: RADACAD note that Secure embed is reports-only, and Publish to web considerations.
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Helper IHi tayloramy ,
I appreciate the response but am not accepting the solution just yet. There is evidence of questions going out in the past 3 weeks from the community that the sidebar navigation which you're saying is expected behaviour is not expected behaviour in dashboard view.
Prior to ~ 3 weeks ago when you viewed a dashboard in fullscreen mode the sidebar pane did not show at all. I have been using Power BI for just shy of 5 years now and this is new functionality.
An example image I have is from a bug ticket I have from September 2024. I have greyed out the information, but you can see the dashboard is displayed in full screen (by the white borders) on one of our test screens, and no sidebar is present.
This is the same screen today (taken < 5 minutes ago) with the report, that now has more data
As you can see, comparatively the test screens all now have sidebars on them when they did not historically.