Field Description Display Issue After Latest Update

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Hello Looker Studio Team,

After the most recent update, I noticed that the field descriptions in the data panel and chart settings now display additional unnecessary details such as the field type and default aggregation.

This new behavior makes the description appear cluttered and harder to read. It also distracts users from the actual purpose of the description, which is to provide clear and concise context about the field itself.

Previously, the description was clean and user-friendly — now it feels overloaded with technical information that most report viewers or editors don’t need to see.

Could you please consider reverting this change or adding an option to hide the extra metadata (type and aggregation) from field descriptions? This would greatly improve readability and focus for creators working with complex data models.

Thank you for your attention and continued support.

Best regards

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У мене також вже 3-тій день при скачування Звітів не відобпажаються плашки над критеріями. Що робити незнаю?

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Hey,

Hope you’re keeping well.

This change is part of a recent Looker Studio UI update that surfaces more metadata directly in field descriptions to help with schema clarity. At the moment, there’s no setting in the interface to hide the field type or default aggregation. If you want to request a revert or an optional toggle, the best path is to submit feedback through Help > Send Feedback in Looker Studio, as that routes directly to the product team for review. In the meantime, you can shorten descriptions in your data source schema to keep the most important context at the front, since the extra metadata is appended after the description text.

Thanks and regards,
Taz