Heads up for ArcGIS Online users: The Oriented Imagery Classic widget for Experience Builder, deprecated in 2025, will be removed in February 2026. If your apps rely on this widget, now is the time to plan your migration to the new integrated oriented imagery capability for a smooth transition.
Why are we removing the Oriented Imagery Classic widget?
ArcGIS has evolved! The oriented imagery features integrated into ArcGIS are rapidly approaching equivalency with Oriented Imagery Classic. This means you can now move away from the older, community-supported prototype and benefit from oriented imagery functionality that’s fully embedded in ArcGIS.
The new version of oriented imagery uses similar patterns, but has been built into ArcGIS from the ground up. This enables wide adoption of oriented imagery across ArcGIS—no downloads or add-ins required. It allows users to leverage familiar ArcGIS patterns to work with oriented imagery. It means that we're innovating with dedicated technical resources, with a more robust development process and a long-term commitment to maintenance and enhancements. And it's fully supported by Esri Technical Support.
Additionally, the upcoming ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript 5.0 (February 2026) will not support visualizing oriented imagery catalogs (the data model used by Oriented Imagery Classic). Once ArcGIS Online adopts JS SDK 5.0, the Classic widget will no longer be compatible.
What should you do next?
If you’re still using the Oriented Imagery Classic widget:
- Re-publish your oriented imagery catalog as an oriented imagery layer.
Use the Oriented Imagery toolbox in ArcGIS Pro to create an oriented imagery dataset with your original imagery and publish it as an oriented imagery layer.
ArcGIS QuickCapture users: If you used QuickCapture to create and manage your oriented imagery catalog, you can enable Oriented Imagery in the QuickCapture designer to update your layer to be compatible with the integrated oriented imagery tools. Learn more.
Recreate your Oriented Imagery Classic app using the Oriented Imagery Viewer widget.
The Oriented Imagery Viewer widget for Experience Builder is designed to work with the new oriented imagery layers. Learn more about configuring and working with the oriented imagery viewer.
The oriented imagery layer is the new, supported data model for managing oriented imagery. In addition to the Oriented Imagery Viewer widget for Experience Builder, oriented imagery layers can also be visualized using the built-in oriented imagery viewer in ArcGIS Pro, Map Viewer, ArcGIS Excalibur, the 3D Viewer and Sidebar templates for Instant Apps, as well as the oriented imagery viewer widget in the JavaScript SDK.
Learn more about which Oriented Imagery Classic features are available across ArcGIS to help plan your transition.
For custom app developers
If you've used Experience Builder Developer Edition or the JavaScript SDK to build and host a custom app with the Oriented Imagery Classic widget, you can continue using the app as long as you don't update your app to JavaScript SDK 5.0.
If you're not ready to migrate
You have the option to use ArcGIS Experience Builder Developer Edition to manage your Experience Builder app and host it yourself, continuing to reference JS SDK 4.x. You can also visualize oriented imagery catalogs using the Oriented Imagery Classic Explorer app, which we’ll continue to host for the foreseeable future.
For ArcGIS Enterprise users
The Oriented Imagery Classic widget will also be removed from ArcGIS Enterprise 12.1. Before your organization updates their deployment to 12.1, you should plan your migration to the new oriented imagery capabilities.
