Upgrade Classic Apps to Lightning Apps
You can upgrade a Classic app to a Lightning app in Lightning Experience, enhancing it for your Lightning Experience users with a customized color, logo, utility bar, and more items like Lightning pages supported in the navigation bar.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Contact Manager, Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To view apps: | View Setup and Configuration |
| To manage apps: | Modify All Data |
Note You can’t upgrade a Salesforce Classic console app to Lightning Experience. You can
choose to display or hide the app in the Lightning Experience App Launcher, but you can’t
edit the app from the App Manager page in Lightning Experience Setup. To get started in
Lightning Experience, customize these Salesforce-provided Lightning console apps: Service
Console and Sales Console. You can also recreate your Salesforce Classic console app in
Lightning Experience, but using the Salesforce out-of-the-box app is faster and
easier.
- From the Home tab in Setup, enter App in the Quick Find box, then select App Manager.
- Find the Classic app that you want to upgrade in the apps list. A checkmark in the Visible in Lightning Experience column means that the app is accessible in Lightning Experience via the App Launcher and is fully functional. Even though a Classic app works in Lightning Experience, it doesn’t take advantage of all the benefits of being a Lightning app. That’s why we recommend that you upgrade it.
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Click
, and select Upgrade.
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Review the app properties and update them if necessary.
If you have custom Lightning Home pages assigned to profiles in your org, and the app you’re upgrading is visible in Lightning Experience, you see a checkbox that lets you apply those Home page profile assignments to the upgraded app. Selecting the checkbox ensures that users see the custom Home page assigned to their profile when they're working in the upgraded app, and that you can modify those Home page assignments if you need to.
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Click Upgrade.
Your Classic app is copied and upgraded for Lightning Experience. You now have two versions of the app: a Classic version, and a Lightning version. After you upgrade it, the Classic app is no longer accessible in Lightning Experience via the App Launcher. You still see the Classic app in the apps list, but with the Visible in Lightning column deselected.
The two versions of your app now must be managed separately. Future changes you make to the Classic app won’t be reflected in the Lightning version of the app, and vice versa. You can toggle the availability of your Classic apps in Lightning Experience by selecting or deselecting Show in Lightning Experience on the Classic app’s detail page.
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