Changes to SharePoint Home Page: Introducing Discover

SharePoint's new Discover homepage with "Here's what's new" at the top and "Recent sites" below. On the left is a flyout panel with "Sites, News, People, Favorites. Recent items and sections for your Recent sites and Favorite sites."

As of May 2026, Microsoft has switched from the SharePoint start page to Discover in SharePoint. Discover is designed to help you quickly find, return to, and engage with relevant sites, news, files, and people. This means that items on this page will change as you visit different sites and as documents are updated or shared by you or your colleagues. The items you can control will be the sites and/or documents that you star to make them your favorites. 

SharePoint's side app bar on the far left that includes links to "Discover, Publish, Build, and OneDrive".

To access the Discover page, log in to office.com and select SharePoint from your apps list. Alternatively, from any of your SharePoint sites, select the waffle icon on the far left to access Discover, Publish, Build or OneDrive.

 

 

 

 

Sites previously listed under "Following" are now "Favorites". These are still indicated by selecting the star next to the name.

SharePoint's Discover page highlighting how to get to your favorite sites. Sections called out are "Sites" on the left flyout panel and "Favorites" in the center under "Sites" and then "Favorite sites" in the bottom left of the flyout panel.

You can access them by going to Sites from the side panel and then clicking "Favorites". There is also a list in the left column for Favorite Sites that you can expand. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SharePoint's Discover page highlighting how to get to documents you favorite. "Favorites" is called out in left flyout panel.

If you favorite a document, it will show up under Favorites, separate from the Sites section.

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