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description: To make your custom app page available to users, you must activate it. You can also rename the Lightning page tab, adjust its visibility, and set its position in the navigation list. The Lightning App Builder’s activation feature makes this process easy.
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# Activate Lightning App Pages

To make your custom app page available to users, you must activate it. You can also rename the Lightning page tab, adjust its visibility, and set its position in the navigation list. The Lightning App Builder’s activation feature makes this process easy.

### Required Editions

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Lightning App Builder available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning
              Experience</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Lightning Home and utility bar pages available in: Lightning Experience</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Lightning app and record pages available in: both the Salesforce mobile app and
              Lightning Experience</td>

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Email application pane pages available in: both Salesforce Classic and
              Lightning Experience</td>

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              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Available in: <strong>Group</strong>, <strong>Essentials</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>,
                <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong>
                Editions
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d96864e103 ">To create and save Lightning pages in the Lightning App
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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d96864e103 ">Customize Application</td>

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1. To open your app page, from Setup, enter Lightning App Builder in the Quick Find box, select **Lightning App Builder**, and then click **Edit** next to the page.
2. In the Lightning App Builder, click **Activation**.
3. Update the activation properties, if necessary.
    - Change the page’s custom tab label. By default, the label that you give the Lightning page is used as the label for its custom tab.
    - Change the custom tab’s icon. The icon that you select here is used as the icon for the page in the mobile app and in Lightning Experience.
    - Adjust the app page custom tab’s visibility.
        
        If you select **System Administrators only**, the tab is set to Default On for System Administrators. For all other users, it’s set to Default Off and doesn’t show up in the navigation of the apps it has been assigned to, but users can see the tab in the App Launcher in Lightning Experience and on the All Tabs page in Salesforce Classic.
        
        If you select **Active for all users**, the tab is set to Default On for all users. It appears in the visible tabs for its associated app, in the App Launcher in Lightning Experience, and on the All Tabs page in Salesforce Classic.
4. Add the page to one or more Lightning apps.
    
    Adding your app page to Lightning Experience makes it available to users viewing the app on the desktop and in the Salesforce mobile app.
5. Set the page’s position in the Salesforce “Mobile Only” app navigation.
    
    The first item that you put in the mobile navigation list becomes your users’ landing page.
6. Click **Activate**.

Your Lightning page is now ready for your mobile and Lightning Experience users.

To enable your users to personalize the app with their favorite tabs, create a Lightning App in the App Manager. They can then use the tabs in the Salesforce mobile app.

![Tip](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-extend_click-264-0-0-production-enus/5f7d9219-b7b1-4552-8891-f1aba9b289fc/images/icon_tip.png)

Tip You can give your app page a custom icon image by editing the style of the page’s custom tab in Setup.

#### See Also

- [Create Lightning Page Tabs](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.creating_flexipage_tabs.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Before you can include a Lightning app page in the Salesforce mobile app or in a Lightning app, you must create a custom tab for it.")
- [Tab Settings](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.permissions_tab_settings_ref.htm&type=5&language=en_US)