The ATLAS experiment at the LHC has a diverse research program exploring the physics of the heavy ion collisions at the LHC energies. The strength of the ATLAS detector is in the measuring the hard probes that play the crucial role in understanding various physics phenomena helping to unveil the physics nature of the system created in ion collisions. The results of the ATLAS effort over the last year are reviewed in this proceeding that includes the last measurement done with the electroweak probes, a very broad spectrum of measurements performed with jets, the first results on bound and open heavy quark states and results from the ultra-peripheral collisions. The measurements performed by ATLAS span all the collision systems available at the LHC, from small $pp$ and $p+$Pb to intermediate and large Xe+Xe and Pb+Pb