Jira’s fresh look and navigation

[Darryl Lee]

@Diane Logsdon Yeah, I can't remember where I read that Nav was coming to Jira first, but I recently saw this announcement in the Confluence forums, so I guess they're trying to do it all at once? (Just in time for the conference!?)

• Confluence’s new navigation is here! 

I 100% agree that I would prefer to let users OPT-IN to the new change on their timeline (still with a hard cutover date) rather than it being forced upon them and then having to navigate to OPT-OUT.

They did this in 2020, as I quoted 9 comments above this one: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-articles/Jira-s-fresh-look-and-navigation/bc-p/2982510#M18427

[Emma Hernandez]

is there a video that shows the new navigation?

[Derek White]

Just got the new UI and it is horrible. One of the worst UX updates from Atlassian in the 12 years I have been using them full-time. Already gave LOTS of feedback, so won't repeat it here. This is just for sentiment analysis.

[Wurm Peter]

It's April, 14th (at least here where I live ;-)
Should we be able to turn the new UI in sandbox now? 

[Emma Hernandez]

It is April 14th and I dont see the option to turn on the new navigation on my sandbox environment or prod.  Am I looking in the right place3?

[Jacob Miller]

I also am not seeing a way to enable the navigation, same screenshots as the above poster. Checked sandbox and production environments and am not seeing it.

[Miriam Hopton]

Same here like Emma and Jacob above. I am in the Jira settings and do not see the option to turn on the experience there. However, I see it in Confluence (which is in a separate app as we know).

[Darryl Lee]

Can y'all show where your setting to enable it is in Confluence (also, are you on Premium or Enterprise? In a Sandbox?)

I'm not seeing it in my Premium Sandbox, but maybe I just don't know where to look.

[Miriam Hopton]

hi @Darryl Lee , im in the production, on standard Confluence. If you go to Administration  / Configuration / New features / the two features of Live docs and New content layout is available to turn on:


I'm waiting for the Jira feature to be visible before turning on Confluence so its across the board.

[Darryl Lee]

Ah thanks @Miriam Hopton. I do not have that, but I'm on Premium. Here's what I see under "Administration / Configuration / New features":

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Since your Confluence is on Standard, then that might explain why you already got it. 

Rollout for Standard sites apparently started on March 17, 2025 randomly, which is always the best way to rollout big nav changes, I say. ("Keep 'em guessing!")

What's weird that they didn't ALSO give it to your Jira because what they wrote seems to imply that you'd get it at the same time, "to maintain consistency across products".

I feel like at this point the best advice (and to any of y'all out there), is to file a Support ticket and ask WTF with Nav? In fact, I'm guessing there's been a big spike of those recently.

[Diane Logsdon]

Our organization has a Premium license. I am NOT seeing the option to enable the new navigation in the Sandbox but I AM seeing it in Production environment. Perhaps someone at Atlassian enabled production by mistake or forgot to enable in the Sandbox. Not sure, but for those not finding the feature in Sandbox per the instructions/guides, try looking in your production environment. 

[Darryl Lee]

Yikes, thanks for the morning scare, @Diane Logsdon ! Ok, so I don't the new nav on my Production Premium instance (and I'm sure my users would've been screaming about it on Slack if that was the case), but I do see this new banner on my Sandbox. Finally!

That link takes me to: https://MYSANDBOX.atlassian.net/jira/settings/personal/general

What an odd thing to put a Global toggle ("Turn on for everyone") inside of Personal settings:

I assume only me and my fellow admins will see this.

[Miriam Hopton]

Good morning everyone! 

I logged in this morning into the Jira production environment and had a banner, just like Darryl, including the same button in his screenshot to "Turn on for everyone". Whoo hoo!

We have a test account that is not an admin, and that person did not see the banner nor the button to turn it on. So thats good to know, only admins see the banner and button if you do not enable it now.

I am writing up documentation on the newness and will turn it on today. Love the documentation Atlassian has had for the newness - helped so much!

[Jacob Miller]

Just an update - today I am seeing the "Turn on for me" and "Turn on for everyone" buttons on both Confluence and Jira settings. 

I guess I just had to wait a little bit longer to see them.

[Miriam Hopton]

I did notice, when you enable for all & a site admin, you have to toggle the feature for yourself to see the new look. I was not seeing the new navigation after selecting "turn on for everyone" and when I selected the little toggle to turn on for myself, refreshed, I saw the new UI on my log in.  Just heads up, fellow admins!

I am also suggesting for people to reference the documentation (thanks Atlassian!) and also using the little helpful button on the lower left of the screen to provide feedback:

[Nicole Shepherd]

They have turned it on for our production site, but not the sandbox. Go figure.

[Vaishali Patil]

Is there a way for admins to customize the project navigation for all projects? My company uses mostly company managed project and to do individually do this on every project will be too much.

[Elizabeth Lafontaine]

I turned this on for myself and another admin did the same. She had feedback that the font was difficult to see. I agree when in Light mode I had an issue and switched to Dark mode. She is having difficulty with the font in both modes. I do not see a way to make an update to the font. Will this be an option later? Thank you.

[Takayuki Hirota]

For users using Japanese language. There is a bug regarding i18n. 

Translation is incorrect for Jira labs > New navigation options
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/I18N-4437.

[David Tieman]

@Varsha Patel I asked this question in another thread, https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-questions/Better-Use-of-quot-White-Blank-quot-Space-on-Board-View-Wouldn-t/qaq-p/2897623, but is there any plan to allow customers with the Project Admin role, to be able to use the open "white space" on these pages for a "Notification"-like message?  Seems that the new Navigation has more open and unused space across the top of the form.

Thank you