Modern controls got a tidy-up, and some property names changed
Microsoft's July/August 2026 Power Platform update makes a batch of changes to modern controls in canvas apps. Property names are being standardised across controls, so FontColor becomes Color on toggle and checkbox, and there is a new tooltip property. DisplayMode. View now renders a genuinely read-only state rather than something that only looks disabled. The modern form control gets fixes to data cards, ResetForm and date picker reset behaviour. The icon library grows from around 56 to roughly 180 icons, with classic icon values mapped automatically. There is a new rating control with half-star precision, extra text-colour and size properties on the card control, and new fluent 2 templates for hub, feature landing and list pages. Separately, the earlier fluent "hero" controls in custom pages and Teams apps are deprecated, with a documented upgrade path.
Most of this is quietly good news for anyone who has spent an afternoon making a form look right. The read-only fix in particular removes a common workaround, because a view-mode form that still behaved like an editable one is exactly the sort of thing that gets discovered by a user rather than by testing. The part worth acting on is the property renaming. If a formula somewhere refers to a property that has been standardised, or if you copied a pattern from a tutorial written before this update, the reference and the control no longer agree. That is the kind of break that does not announce itself — the app opens, the screen loads, and one colour or one state is quietly wrong until someone mentions it. The icon mapping is automatic, so that side should be safe, but property references in your own formulas are yours to check.
Analysis
Open the app you maintain most, put one form into view mode to confirm it is now properly read-only, and search your formulas for FontColor references on modern toggle and checkbox controls before a user finds them for you.
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