ArcGIS Earth Desktop 1.13 has been released on July 29. To learn more, and to download the latest ArcGIS Earth, check out the ArcGIS Earth product page. It will go live later on Microsoft store.
What's New
This release includes support for new exciting features like configuration file sharing, visibility range, layer icon customization, and made several enhancements.
Features
Config sharing - You can share a local configuration file with your organizations as an XML file directly through the ArcGIS Earth Configuration Manager.

Visibility Range - Set layer visibility at a specified range and get the best view of data at various levels of detail.
Layer icon customization - Layer icons in the table of contents can now be customized based on each layer type or folder type.

Enhancements
Undo/Redo editing enhancement - Undo and redo are now supported for editing KML properties, including colors, styles, labels, views, information.
Time format unification - The format of time elements displayed in ArcGIS Earth will match the operating system settings.
Microsoft .appx equivalency - ArcGIS Earth 1.13 installed from Microsoft Store is now equivalent to ArcGIS Earth installed using an executable file in terms of social logins and being set as the default app for KML, KMZ, or MSPK.
Issue Addressed
The following table lists reported bugs that were fixed at ArcGIS Earth 1.13:
- BUG-000138088: ArcGIS Earth fails to load a WMS service enabled from an image service.
- BUG-000102047: Adding a mosaic dataset image service with Allowed Mosaic Methods 'Default method : By Attribute and Order Field : Date' gives the error String was not recognized valid Date_Time error when the service URL is added to ArcGIS Earth.
- BUG-000138227: When viewing a map service with a set visibility range in ArcGIS Earth, pop-ups will still display when features are not visible.
- BUG-000139838: When adding the URL of the configuration file hosted over ArcGIS Online to ArcGIS Earth, the Unable to load configuration settings error message is returned.
Known Limitation
Features | Description |
KML/HTML window | Some videos using H264/AAC codecs cannot be played in ArcGIS Earth. |
Time slider | When data falls outside of the time interval, it is still displayed in ArcGIS Earth. |
Feature service | Feature service fails to load when it contains SVG symbols. |
I18N | Arabic strings display as boxes after applying italic style on the Info tab of the Properties dialog box. |
Visibility range | Preset maximum or minimum scale of the web map cannot be read in ArcGIS Earth. |
KML | No "Properties" option when right-click on kml placemark if there's no properties info for this kml data. |
KML | No highlight after selecting a drawing KmlPlacemark on TOC if there's no properties info for this kml data. |
Regarding the last two known limitations of KML data, we currently provide below workarounds:
- Make sure KML data is appropriately edited with properties info
- Double-click KML data from the Table of Contents to zoom to the data
- Check or uncheck from the Table of Contents to navigate to the data