Microsoft adds automatic recovery to desktop automation runs
Microsoft put self-healing into public preview for Power Automate desktop flows. The feature lets unattended runs recover from certain failures without manual restarts. Preview status means the behaviour can still change before full release. It targets reliability problems that appear during long-running desktop automations.
Before this update, desktop flows that hit transient errors during unattended execution simply stopped and waited for someone to notice and restart them. The preview shifts the burden slightly toward the platform for recovery, yet most users in mid-size companies still build cloud flows that fail silently with unhelpful error messages and no built-in retry logic.
Analysis
Ignore the desktop preview for now. Add a parallel branch with a scope action and configure run after settings on every approval and data-write step so you see failures instead of discovering them when a colleague complains.
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