Test style updates

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When you want to update a style that is being used in production, you may want to test your style updates first.

1. Duplicate the production map style.

2. In the duplicated map style, make your changes and publish.

3. Associate the duplicated map style with a different map ID that you can use to test the style in your staging environment.

4. Test your style changes in your staging environment.

5. When you are happy with the results, associate the duplicated map style with your production map ID.

Note: A duplicated map style does not retain the versions of the style it duplicated. If you want to maintain the style history, you can instead take your tested changes from the duplicated map style and make them to the original map style.

Note: Style changes can take a few hours to propagate to your apps websites, and apps can take longer if the devices aren't connected to the internet. If you're still not seeing your style changes after a few hours, see My style changes aren't updating.