topic Re: Missing default styles? in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Missing default styles?

jdruding — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:40:27 GMT

When I look at this documentation, it seems like I should have this list of styles included in my install. However, I only have "ArcGIS 2D" and "ArcGIS 3D" included in my installation (See image). Do I need to do something additional to install these additional styles? I found this reference that seems to indicate that maybe they are not included by default, but if you go to the gallery as it describes, there are only PDFs there and not the stylx files.

Re: Missing default styles?

Robert_LeClair — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:45:21 GMT

By default, ArcGIS Pro only loads some styles not all styles. ArcMap would load all styles whether you needed them or not. To see more styles, go your your Catalog Pane, right click on Styles then Add->Add System Styles. You'll be in the System Styles UI and from here you can enable or disable any and all styles for your project. Once you load more styles, the symbology pane you have shown will have more options. Expand the 2D and 3D items and there they are! Hope this helps!

Re: Missing default styles?

jdruding — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:30:15 GMT

Thanks Robert! Since a Google search about this topic leads to the Blog post I mentioned above, maybe you could mention this to the Author so she could update it to include this info? That might be helpful for others.

Re: Missing default styles?

Robert_LeClair — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:06:40 GMT

You're welcome! With regard to updating the information, if you're logged into the esri.com domain, you can add a comment at the end of the topic. The authoring team WILL see the comment and will be able to reply directly to you. I agree - would be helpful for others.

Re: Missing default styles?

jdruding — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 02:12:55 GMT

I’m logged in, but it says comments are no longer enabled on this article.

Re: Missing default styles?

MeirEngel — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:56:06 GMT

Robert, I did what you said, but my System Styles is empty, and it also does not show the System Styles in the project,

but the default styles are there under the styles tab, but they dont show up when i try to change symbols

Re: Missing default styles?

Robert_LeClair — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 19:20:27 GMT

Meir - I think what may resolve this style issue for you is to do a repair of your ArcGIS Pro installation. If you have the ArcGIS Pro executable, double click the *.exe to start the process. You will be prompted to uninstall the installation or repair the installation. Choose repair the ArcGIS Pro installation and see if that resolves the missing styles issue. Please advise.

Re: Missing default styles?

MeirEngel — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 12:23:56 GMT

Thank you for responding so quickly, we ended up uninstalling ArcGIS Pro and installing an older version, which restored the default symbology

Re: Missing default styles?

BrianRobeson — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:52:59 GMT

I had to uninstall and reinstall the same version (3.3) to fix the problem.

Re: Missing default styles?

Hannah_Wilson — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:45:04 GMT

Thank you so much for this. I have been searching for an answer for this for over a week. I found this forum and it helped fix my issue. After downloading the 3.6 update all of my symbology had been removed. I could not figure out how to turn it back on. Somehow all of it had been turned off. I was able to turn it back on with your instructions above.

Re: Missing default styles?

Robert_LeClair — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:42:28 GMT

I'm glad it worked out for you Hannah!