ArcGIS continues to advance rapidly, rolling out new capabilities that help users work more efficiently, collaborate seamlessly, and unlock richer insight from spatial data. From ArcGIS Online and Hub to Experience Builder, Dashboards, Instant Apps, Field Maps, Survey123, and Web Maps, the latest updates are designed to boost productivity, modernize workflows, and support better decision-making.

Whether you’re analyzing data, managing field operations, engaging stakeholders, or building GIS-driven applications, these enhancements signal a platform that is increasingly intuitive, connected, and intelligent.

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ArcGIS Online: Deeper visibility and smarter management

As the foundation of Esri’s cloud GIS, ArcGIS Online is gaining powerful new tools that give users and administrators greater visibility into content usage, storage, and credits.

Content Analytics now delivers interactive dashboards that let users sort and filter items by size, views, sharing level, and member activity. Organizations can quickly identify high-value datasets, uncover underused content, and flag storage-intensive items.

New Item Dependency capabilities improve transparency by showing how content is connected across the platform. Dependency lists clarify relationships between items, while sharing mismatch alerts help ensure referenced data remains accessible. An enhanced Usage tab also highlights items users should have access to but don’t—making it easier to resolve sharing issues.

Credit Analytics has been upgraded with richer visualizations, enabling teams to monitor credit consumption by category, user type, or time period. Soon, administrators will also be able to define per-member storage burn-rate limits to encourage fair and efficient use.

Developers and power users will welcome the new Arcade Debugger, which makes it easier to test, troubleshoot, and validate expressions using breakpoints and variable inspection—streamlining the creation of dynamic labels, symbology, pop-ups, and calculations.

Looking ahead, Google Photorealistic 3D basemaps will soon be available in ArcGIS Online, adding a new level of realism for urban planning, asset management, and environmental analysis.

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ArcGIS Hub: A unified space for collaboration

ArcGIS Hub continues to strengthen its role as a central platform for collaboration across projects and communities.

The introduction of Workspaces brings content, tools, discussions, and project tracking together in a single, intuitive environment. Teams can manage initiatives, monitor progress, and share outcomes without jumping between applications.

Enhanced Discussions now support both public and private conversations directly within Hub sites and Workspaces. These threaded, contextual discussions help teams stay aligned and maintain continuity across initiatives.

With real-time notifications and new Discussion Analytics, contributors can stay informed while organisations gain insight into engagement patterns and participation gaps—supporting more effective communication and collaboration.

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Experience Builder: Powering the next generation of GIS apps

ArcGIS Experience Builder continues to evolve as a flexible tool for creating modern, responsive GIS applications.

Upcoming enhancements include a login widget and improved content visibility controls, allowing organisations to tailor app experiences based on user roles and permissions. Expanded multilingual support will help teams reach broader, global audiences.

Support for hosted custom widgets, including options from ArcGIS Marketplace, opens the door to extended functionality. Productivity improvements such as copy-and-paste components and Arcade-powered logic will make it easier to build and maintain complex apps.

A new theming framework simplifies branding across multiple applications, while improved template creation and reuse supports organisations managing large app portfolios.

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ArcGIS Dashboards & Instant Apps: Smarter insights, richer interaction

ArcGIS Dashboards and ArcGIS Instant Apps are becoming even more powerful tools for communicating spatial insight across operational, executive, and public-facing use cases.

ArcGIS Dashboards now offers enhanced time-based data support, enabling clearer visualization of trends, change over time, and real-time conditions. New data source and dependency replacement tools make it easier to update datasets without rebuilding dashboards, reducing maintenance effort and improving resilience.

Soon, multi-language dashboards will automatically adapt to a viewer’s preferred language, supporting inclusive and global communication.

On the Instant Apps front, Esri Australia is preparing to release the Data Explorer template (currently in beta). This innovative app blends maps with AI-powered natural language interaction, allowing users to ask questions, run analyses, filter data, and see results appear directly on the map via a conversational interface. AI Assistance must be enabled to use these capabilities.

Together, these updates make spatial intelligence more accessible, interactive, and conversational.

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ArcGIS Field Maps: More intelligent field operations

The latest ArcGIS Field Maps release (25.2) introduces new capabilities that transform how field teams collect and manage data.

Teams can now capture and visualise 3D data in the field, improving accuracy for inspections, asset management, and environmental monitoring. New Task Management tools support structured workflows, allowing teams to assign, prioritise, and track work in real time.

Enhanced forms offer greater flexibility through multi-choice fields, dynamic lists, and AI-powered computer vision for automated attribute capture. Users will also be able to override calculated expressions when needed.

On the roadmap are Oriented Imagery Capture, expanded augmented reality (AR) tools for visualizing underground or planned infrastructure, and improved clustering and visualization to better interpret dense datasets.

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ArcGIS Survey123: A new generation of smart forms

ArcGIS Survey123 is being rebuilt on the latest ArcGIS Maps SDK for .NET and aligned with the Calcite Design System, delivering better performance, accessibility, and a modern, consistent user experience.

The next-generation app introduces:

• Richer map interactions, including bookmarks, layer control, and pop-ups
• Task support, bringing structured workflows into Survey123
• Expanded Arcade expressions for dynamic, intelligent forms
• Oriented Imagery integration for viewing ground-level photos in spatial context

Survey123 Classic will remain supported until approximately Q3 2026, giving organizations sufficient time to prepare for migration once full feature parity is achieved.

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Web Maps, Web Editor & Scenes: Built for usability and clarity

Enhancements across Web Maps, Web Editor, and Scenes focus on usability, performance, and visual storytelling.

A refreshed Map Viewer introduces light and dark modes, while a new optimization tool helps authors assess performance before sharing. New visual options such as custom color ramps, glow symbols, and flow rendering enhance both 2D and 3D maps.

Additional improvements include bulk item actions, copyable layer configurations, undo/redo support, Arcade-powered field calculations, and task-based editing workflows. Expanded support for temporal data and cross-section analysis further strengthens analytical capabilities, alongside a comprehensive accessibility audit.

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A more connected, intelligent ArcGIS ecosystem

Taken together, these updates reflect a more integrated ArcGIS platform, one that better connects people, data, and processes across the entire GIS workflow.

From smarter field operations and AI-enhanced exploration to collaborative workspaces and dynamic dashboards, ArcGIS continues to evolve into a system that doesn’t just support modern GIS work, but actively enhances it.

Stay tuned as Esri continues to refine and expand the tools that help organizations understand change, communicate impact, and make smarter decisions every day.