If you have a News web part on the home page of a SharePoint Team site, you may run across a scenario where the web part looks like it’s collapsed and News posts that were there now… aren’t. It’s a new feature to allow the home page to show more relevant content and save space. Here’s how it works according to Microsoft…
Introduction
To help reduce visual clutter and keep SharePoint team site homepages focused on active content, we’re introducing an automatic collapse behavior for the News web part. When a team site homepage hasn’t been edited in 30 days and no news has been published on the site, the News web part will collapse by default. This change will help surface relevant information while preserving existing News authoring and configuration capabilities.
How this affects your organization
Who is affected
All Microsoft 365 tenants using SharePoint Online Team site homepages that include the News web part
What will happen
The News web part will automatically collapse on a team site homepage if the homepage has not been edited for 30 days and no News posts have been published. This behavior will be enabled by default. Site owners and users will be able to expand the News web part at any time. Publishing new News posts or editing the homepage will restore normal visibility of the News web part. This change will not affect News authoring workflows, configuration options, or permissions.
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