Global navigation made easy. Connect globally with the SharePoint app bar!
The SharePoint app bar brings a consistent navigation experience to every site on your intranet, featuring quick access to global navigation, frequently accessed sites, news, and the files personalized to the user.
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Microsoft is releasing a SharePoint app bar in SharePoint online that features global navigation in modern communication and team sites. The SharePoint app bar brings a consistent navigation experience to every site on your intranet, featuring quick access to global navigation, frequently accessed sites, news, and the files personalized to the user.
SharePoint App Bar Experience
Once the SharePoint app bar is activated on your tenant, it will have four tabs at the left-hand side of your SharePoint sites
Global Navigation
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Sites (User Driven)
News (User Driven)
Files (User Driven)
Key Highlights
Personalized content (sites/news/files) in the SharePoint app bar is enabled by Microsoft Graph
You can only customize the Global navigation tab (Possible to change only the home icon.)
Customizing global navigation requires a home site must be a communication site
When global navigation is disabled or not configured, the home icon links to the SharePoint start page
Specific Tabs on the SharePoint app bar cannot be disabled
SharePoint app bar cannot be disabled on a specific site
How to disable the SharePoint app bar?
You cannot disable the SharePoint app bar permanently. However, you can temporarily disable the SharePoint app bar in your tenant using PowerShell.
2. Run the following command with administrator privileges:
Set-SPOTemporarilyDisableAppBar $true
If you have disabled the SharePoint app bar previously and now you are ready to enable the SharePoint app bar in your tenant, run the following command:
