Why do software updates keep changing the menu layout?
Frequent updates randomly reshuffle menus and bury essential tools like report tabs. Compounding the issue, these redesigns sometimes remove the universal quick search bars that people rely on to navigate. As a result, you end up wasting time blindly clicking around just to find basic settings.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Clicking around the new interface randomly to manually find moved features
- 2Reverting to the "old" or classic view of the interface to access the missing features.
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I hopped on admin center today and the search ive been using since forever at the top, can search groups users settings whatever, is gone....”source ↗
“half the time I can't find basic settings without that search bar, absolute mess”source ↗
“same here. old, "new," no quick search. blah.”source ↗
“Man our crm switched the ui again and now i cant find where they moved the reports tab. spent half of morning clicking around like an idiot. why they do this every update”source ↗
“the random reshuffling of menus every update is so exhausting tbh”source ↗
Where this came up
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