Desktop flows can now launch Power Apps directly
Reviewed by Helen Jones
Microsoft’s June 11, 2026 Power Platform update announced a public preview of the Run Power App action for Power Automate for desktop. The action lets a desktop flow open a Power App, pass inputs into it, receive outputs back, and call desktop subflows from app events. The preview requires Power Automate for desktop version 2.68 or later.
Before this, a maker who wanted a friendly Power Apps front end for desktop automation often had to stitch together awkward UI-based workarounds or keep the app and desktop flow as separate experiences. That made attended automation harder to explain, test, and hand over to non-technical users. This preview gives builders a cleaner pattern for guided forms, desktop-system lookups, and event-driven handoffs where a Power App controls what the desktop flow does next. It is still preview, so the practical risk is not whether the demo looks good, but whether the input/output variables, subflow names, publishing steps, and user sign-in path survive a real process.
Analysis
Test the preview with one small desktop subflow and one Power App button before attaching it to a live process. Check WebView2, environment access, published app timing, and how string outputs are converted back into useful Power Fx values.
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