ArcGIS continues to evolve at pace, introducing capabilities that make it easier to work smarter, collaborate more effectively, and gain deeper insight from your spatial data. Across ArcGIS Online, Hub, Experience Builder, Dashboards, Instant Apps, Field Maps, Survey123, and Web Maps, Esri is delivering updates that enhance productivity, modernise workflows, and strengthen decision-making.
Whether you’re analysing data, coordinating field teams, sharing information with stakeholders, or building applications these enhancements reflect a platform that is becoming more intuitive, integrated, and intelligent.
ArcGIS Online: Greater insight and intelligence
ArcGIS Online remains the central hub for cloud-based spatial content. A new wave of enhancements will give users and administrators deeper insight into content performance, storage use, and credit consumption.
Content Analytics introduces interactive dashboards that allow users to sort and filter items by size, views, sharing status, and member activity. Organisations can quickly pinpoint popular datasets, identify underused content, or detect storage-heavy items.
Item Dependency features improve transparency across the platform. Dependency lists will help users understand how items relate to one another, while sharing mismatch alerts ensure referenced datasets remain accessible. A more informative Usage tab will highlight items a user can access – including those they should be able to access but can’t due to sharing restrictions.
Credit Analytics receives upgraded visualisation tools, enabling teams to track credit use by category, user type, or time period. Administrators will also soon be able to set per-member storage burn-rate limits to support fair and efficient governance.
An all-new Arcade Debugger enables users to confidently test, troubleshoot, and validate Arcade expressions using breakpoints and variable inspection – simplifying the creation of dynamic symbology, labels, pop-ups, and calculations.
And coming soon, Google Photorealistic 3D basemaps will bring a new level of realism to ArcGIS Online, expanding what’s possible for urban design, asset management, and environmental analysis.
ArcGIS Hub: Connecting everything, everywhere
ArcGIS Hub is strengthening its role as a central space for project and community collaboration.
The introduction of Workspaces consolidates project-related content, tools, and conversations into a single, intuitive environment. Teams can manage initiatives, monitor progress, and communicate outcomes without switching between apps.
Upgraded Discussions allow users to hold conversations directly within Hub sites or Workspaces, supporting both public and private engagements. These threaded, contextual interactions help teams maintain clarity and continuity initiatives.
Real-time notifications ensure contributors never miss updates, while Discussion Analytics tools provide insight into engagement patterns, helping teams understand participation and identify where additional communication may be needed.
Together, these enhancements create a more connected, collaborative ecosystem, helping organisations manage projects and foster involvement more effectively.
Experience Builder: Building the next generation of GIS apps
ArcGIS Experience Builder continues to expand its capabilities for creating responsive, powerful, GIS-driven web applications.
A forthcoming login widget and enhanced content visibility controls will enable more granular access management, tailoring app experiences based on user roles and permissions.
Support for multiple languages will make it easier to reach global audiences, while the introduction of hosted custom widgets, including those available through ArcGIS Marketplace, expands options for extending app functionality.
Productivity gains are also coming through copy-and-paste capabilities for quick component replication, and Arcade expressions, which will allow dynamic data-driven styling and logic to be embedded directly into application design.
A new theming framework streamlines the creation of branded designs across multiple apps, helping organisations maintain consistency. Improved template creation and reuse will further support teams managing larger app portfolios.
ArcGIS Dashboards & ArcGIS Instant Apps: More intelligence, interaction, and insight
ArcGIS Dashboards and ArcGIS Instant Apps are evolving to help users communicate spatial intelligence more effectively, whether for operational awareness, executive reporting, or public engagement.
ArcGIS Dashboards introduces improved time-based data support, enabling clearer temporal visualisations for monitoring trends, assessing change, and supporting real-time operations.
Administrators will benefit from Data Source and Dependency Replacement, making it easier to update or migrate datasets without rebuilding dashboards, improving resilience and reducing maintenance time.
Multi-language Dashboards will soon adapt automatically to the viewer’s preferred language, supporting inclusive communication and global collaboration.
On the Instant Apps side, Esri Australia is preparing to release the innovative Data Explorer template, currently in beta. This app combines maps with natural language and AI, enabling users to ask questions, run analyses, filter data, and see results appear directly on the map – all through an intuitive chat interface. These capabilities require AI Assistance to be enabled within the organisation.
Collectively, these updates make spatial insight more accessible, conversational, and interactive.
ArcGIS Field Maps: Smarter, more dynamic field data collection
The latest ArcGIS Field Maps release (25.2) delivers powerful tools that redefine how field teams capture and manage data.
Teams can now collect and visualise 3D data on-site, improving accuracy for inspections, environmental monitoring, and asset management.
New Task Management tools introduce structured workflows for field operations – enabling teams to assign, prioritise, and track tasks in real time.
Enhanced Forms add flexibility with multi-choice fields, dynamic choice lists, and AI-powered computer vision for automated attribute capture. Users will also be able to override calculated expressions where needed for improved control.
Oriented Imagery Capture is on the roadmap, enabling field workers to take geotagged photos with spatially aware orientation, improving accuracy for documentation and analysis.
Expanded Augmented Reality (AR) capabilities will continue to enhance how teams visualise underground or proposed infrastructure, helping improve safety and situational awareness.
Upcoming improvements to clustering and visualisation will help teams better interpret dense or overlapping datasets, especially in complex asset networks.
ArcGIS Survey123: Smarter forms, stronger data
ArcGIS Survey123 is entering a new generation, rebuilt using the latest ArcGIS Maps SDK for .NET and aligned with the Calcite Design System. This modern architecture delivers improved performance, accessibility, and a refreshed, consistent user experience.
The next-generation app introduces:
- More powerful map interactions, including bookmarks, layer control, and pop-ups
- Task support, bringing structured workflows to Survey123 for the first time
- Expanded Arcade expressions for dynamic, intelligent forms
- Oriented Imagery integration, allowing users to view ground-level photos in spatial context
Survey123 Classic will remain supported until around Q3 2026, providing organisations ample time to prepare for migration once feature parity is reached.
Together with enhancements to reporting, offline capabilities, and web form performance, Survey123 continues to be a cornerstone for accurate, high-quality field data collection.
Web Map, Web Editor, and Scenes: Designed for better usability
Enhancements to Web Maps, Web Editor, and Scenes focus on improving usability, performance, and visual storytelling.
A refreshed Map Viewer introduces light and dark modes for accessibility and user comfort, while a map optimisation tool allows authors to assess performance before sharing.
New colour ramp customisation, glow symbols, and flow rendering offer richer visualisation options for both 2D and 3D maps. Expanded labelling capabilities, including advanced 3D labelling, improve clarity across complex scenes.
Usability improvements include:
- Bulk actions for faster item management
- Copyable layer configurations
- Undo/redo functionality
- Field calculations powered by Arcade
- Task-based editing workflows
Support for temporal data enhancements and cross-section analysis strengthens analytical capabilities, while a comprehensive accessibility audit ensures these tools remain inclusive for all users.
A more connected, intuitive ArcGIS ecosystem
Across the platform, these updates point toward a more integrated and intelligent ArcGIS experience – one that connects people, data, and processes at every step of a workflow.
From smarter field operations and intelligent dashboards to collaborative workspaces and AI-driven exploration, ArcGIS continues to evolve into a system that not only supports modern GIS work but actively enhances it.
Stay tuned as Esri continues to refine and expand the tools that help organisations understand change, communicate impact, and make smarter decisions every day.