--- title: Next.js 16.3: Instant Navigations | daily.dev description: Next.js 16.3 Preview introduces Instant Navigations, a suite of opt-in features that bring SPA-like responsiveness to server-driven Next.js apps. The core... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/qb3j8zinu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Next.js 16.3: Instant Navigations | daily.dev og:description: Next.js 16.3 Preview introduces Instant Navigations, a suite of opt-in features that bring SPA-like responsiveness to server-driven Next.js apps. The core... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/qb3j8zinu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Qb3J8ZiNu.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Next.js 16.3: Instant Navigations **[Front-end Tribe](https://daily.dev/sources/frontendtribe)** · [@josephciullo](https://daily.dev/josephciullo) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Next.js 16.3 Preview introduces Instant Navigations, a suite of opt-in features that bring SPA-like responsiveness to server-driven Next.js apps. The core idea: navigations become instant by either Streaming (showing a loading shell via Suspense) or Caching (reusing previously cached UI via 'use cache'), while still allowing specific routes to Block and wait for the server. A new Partial Prefetching system replaces per-link prefetching with a single reusable shell per route, reducing unnecessary network requests. Developer tooling includes Instant Insights (slow navigations become dev errors), a Navigation Inspector in DevTools to visually inspect prefetched shells, and an instant() test helper for Playwright. Both cacheComponents and partialPrefetching flags must be enabled to try these features. The release is available now as a preview via npm install next@preview. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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