As you create a Miro board, you get access to a few sets of board tools and settings. The toolbars surround the board working space.
Miro UI updates in phased rollout
Miro is enhancing the board user interface to be more inclusive and intuitive, and introducing an evolution of Projects called Spaces. The rollout will occur gradually for all Miro accounts over several weeks.
In case you already have the enhanced UI and Spaces layout, this article may describe entry-points that have changed.
To view the most current documentation, see Miro's new simplified user interface.
This article will be updated when the rollout is complete.
Toolbars in Miro
Board menu & board settings
The board menu is available in the top-left corner of the board.
Board menu
On the board menu, you can see:
| Miro button to go back to the dashboard | |
| Board information card ("Big Ideas Test Environment") | |
| Board/data classification rating | |
| Main menu hamburger | |
| Export options (you can export as PDF, image, CSV, etc.) | |
| Search |
Board settings/Main menu
Board settings (Main menu) is available in the top left corner of the board. You can also open the settings by right-clicking the canvas.
Board settings / Main menu
From the settings, you can:
- start the board
- duplicate the board
- move the board to another team or project
- switch mouse or trackpad navigation controls
- enable/disable snapping objects on the board
- enable/disable the option to align objects on the board
- change background grid
- access board history
- set start view
- start/stop following all comment threads on the board
- view the list of shortcuts
- access Marketplace
- open Learning Center
- open API documentation
- go to Profile settings
Collaboration toolbar
From the collaboration toolbar, you can access voting, timer, video chat, presentation mode, and other collaborative tools. Feel free to reorder the tools on the toolbar by dragging them.Collaboration toolbar
Communication toolbar
The toolbar includes tools for interacting with collaborators on the board.
Communication toolbar
| The option to enable/disable collaborators' cursors | |
| Reactions | |
| Comments | |
| Users on the board | |
| Feed | |
| Interactive Presentation Mode | |
| Sharing settings |
Creation toolbar
Tools for navigation and editing are available on the creation toolbar on the left side of the board. Click on the arrows to see more tools. To select a tool, just click on the icon or use a shortcut to activate it. Learn more about Miro tools in this section.
Creation toolbar
Note that the tools are available for board owner, co-owners and editors and are locked for viewers and commenters. Commenters can only leave comments while viewers cannot make any changes to the board.
All tools (except pen, eraser, lasso, and comments) are one-time. This means that once you use the tool, it'll be switched to Select.
Customizing the toolbar
You can change tools order and add or remove the ones you don't need.
- Click the arrows.
- Drag a tool from the list of apps to the toolbar or vice versa.
Please note, your tools order and available tools will be saved under your profile only, you cannot change the creation toolbar of other users on the board. The toolbar customization isn't supported on touchscreen devices.
Toolbar customization
Drag and drop
To add text, comments, frames, shapes, or stickers to the board just simply drag and drop its icon from the creation toolbar to the board.
Drag and drop functionality
Select/hand tools
Select / Hand cannot be removed from the creation toolbar. Click on the pointer to enable Select tool and click again to switch back to the Hand tool (or use V and H hotkeys). You can also move around with the right mouse button or by sliding two fingers on a trackpad. Learn more about navigation in Miro.
Select and hand tools
Buttons undo and redo
The undo and redo buttons are available under the creation toolbar.
Undo and redo buttons
Board overview
Frames, comments, activities, and board history are available on the board overview. You can open it by clicking the icon in the bottom left corner of the board.
Board overview
Zoom controls and the navigation toolbar
Use the following buttons for board navigation.
The navigation toolbar
| Full-screen mode | |
| Map | |
| Fit to screen mode | |
| Zooming in and out | |
| Current scaling | |
| Learning Center |
Issues with toolbars
If some toolbars are not available for you:
- Make sure that you have editor/commenter access to the board. You can check your access level in the top right corner of the board.
Checking your access rights on the board
- If you still experience the issue while working in Miro on desktop, try these troubleshooting steps.
- If the issue perists on iPad, please be aware that this may be caused by iPad RAM limitations. Try the following:
- close all unnecessary background applications before using Miro - this should better the performance
- work on boards that are smaller in size - this should lighten the load of the app on the system
- switch to another device (laptop or computer) with better RAM and use the browser version of Miro
- Make sure that you have editor access to the board. You can check your access level in the top right corner of the board.
- Check your browser zoom level - for the best experience, we recommend setting it to 100%. Otherwise, tools may be hidden for you.
Browser zoom
- Make sure tools are not hidden on your creation/collaboration toolbars.
Customizing creation toolbar
Customizing creation toolbar
- Make sure that you have editor access to the board. You can check your access level in the top right corner of the board.
Frequently asked questions
To hide the context menu of objects that appear when you select them, hold down Shift.