ArcGIS Configurable Apps Deprecation

Description

ArcGIS Configurable Apps, including the configuring experience of the Configurable Apps Gallery in ArcGIS Online, was deprecated with the ArcGIS Online June 2023 update. ArcGIS Configurable Apps will be retired in ArcGIS Online by the end of 2025, when the last update of ArcGIS Online scheduled for 2025 occurs (usually in Q4 2025). The final version of ArcGIS Enterprise to include Configurable Apps will release in the first half of 2025.

Deprecation does not impact ArcGIS Configurable Apps availability or functionality, but does communicate the intention to retire ArcGIS Configurable Apps in the future. ArcGIS Configurable Apps continues to be available until it is officially retired, but will not receive new features or other enhancements. Before retirement, users are still able to create apps using ArcGIS Configurable Apps templates and existing apps will continue to work.

Retirement of Configurable Apps is expected to be in 2025. At the point of retirement:

• Users will no longer be able to create any configurable apps in ArcGIS Online.  
• Apps previously created by users using ArcGIS Configurable Apps will remain in their ArcGIS Online content folder but will no longer work
• The configuring experience of the Configurable Apps Galleries will not be available. 
• The ArcGIS Configurable Apps developer experience, which allows users to customize Configurable Apps templates and host them in their own data server, will also be removed.
• The source code for Configurable Apps templates will no longer be available to download.

Recommendation

In advance of ArcGIS Configurable Apps retirement in 2025, users should identify any configurable apps they are still actively using in their ArcGIS Online organization and proactively re-create those apps using more modern technology such as ArcGIS Instant Apps. If you haven’t used Instant Apps yet, refer to the documentation or the following resources to help make the transition:

• Try ArcGIS Instant Apps —Discovery path to get started with step-by-step lessons and blog articles with examples. 
• Introducing ArcGIS Instant Apps —Blog article that provides an overview and examples of Instant Apps.
• ArcGIS Instant Apps Gallery —Gallery that displays examples built from a suite of Instant Apps templates.

To quickly check if your organization has any of these previously configured apps using the templates listed below, please see the article Identify deprecated Configurable Apps in ArcGIS Online using a Python script.

For Enterprise users only

Most Configurable Apps have been removed in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.0. The remaining templates that will be removed after the ArcGIS Enterprise release in the first half of 2025 include the following: Basic Viewer, Compare, Crowdsource Manager, Crowdsource Polling, Crowdsource Reporter, GeoForm, Image Mask, and Image Visit. We recommend Enterprise customers update to a later version of Enterprise 10.9.1 and above in order for customers to have access to more modern equivalent templates in ArcGIS Instant Apps and rebuild the replacement applications as shown below. The final version of ArcGIS Enterprise to include Configurable Apps will release in the first half of 2025.

Appendix

The table below details the app templates that are deprecated currently and are going to be deprecated in 2024, along with their recommended replacement apps.

One way to identify these configurable apps in your organization is the app URL, which uses the following pattern:

/portal/apps/<TemplateID>/index.html?appid=<AppID>

Equivalent ArcGIS Instant App templates to deprecated and soon-to-be deprecated ArcGIS Configurable Apps template

Please also refer to the ArcGIS Configurable Apps Life Cycle page