Hey everyone — thank you for flagging this and for describing how the shortcut behavior is affecting your workflow. We completely understand how unexpected changes like this can be frustrating, especially when they disrupt familiar design practices.

I’ve shared your reports and feedback with our product team to ensure they’re aware of how these updates are affecting your workflow. Your notes are helpful for us to better understand the issue and evaluate next steps.

In addition, we’ll keep the Accessibility at Figma article in Figma Learn updated as new information and shortcuts become available. Thanks again for your patience and for taking the time to surface this.

As a Figma user with a Spanish keyboard, I’ve run into serious difficulties with this update. I used the Bring Forward and Send Backward shortcuts every single day to move layers around. I’ve tried the new shortcut, but it doesn’t work for me because on a Spanish keyboard, to use “[`” or “]” you also have to press Alt Gr, so Ctrl + ] is not possible. When I try Ctrl + ], it actually zooms the page instead.

Please remember that even if there are fewer of us affected, those who use these shortcuts do so for a reason. You should design for all users, not just the majority. Consider the keyboards that simply cannot perform the new shortcut. If the old one doesn’t conflict with anything else, please bring it back. It’s a shortcut I relied on every day, and now I can only do it manually.

​@Tom Reem Thanks for the update, and I’m glad to get some confirmation that the product team is now aware of this issue. And it really is a big issue when a workflow you’ve used for many years just does something completely different. It’s like riding a bike that all of a sudden turns right instead of left when you turn the handle bar.

We would definitely appreciate an update on this as soon as there is any. 

​@Tom Reem Thanks for the update, could you please just revert the update and let us all use cmd+alt+up/down as it was. No one asked for the rotation hotkeys.

It is time to start searching for a new app and stop paying for this software. This shortcut override is insane. You NEED to let people choose their shortcuts! 
Your main target are UX/UI Designers who works all the time thinking about the USER END and Figma just ignored, completely, their users.

I can guarantee you that there are millions more users with non english keyboard layouts than people having issues with accessibility. With the new shortcut there is no way to use on most non-english keyboards. 

Just add a fucking toggle for people who need it or let us map our own shortcuts. 

Plz change back!!

Have been CMD+OPT+Up/Down for years!

With my non-US keyboard I have no shortcut anymore. 

Just switch them

[ ] rotates objects

up and down arrow moves the layers

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The fact that they made this change without telling anyone is all we need to know about how figma cares about their users - they don’t.  And they clearly don’t test.

This was reckless and bush league - you *never* modify an existing keybind to be a new function without offering customization.  It doesn’t matter if it was the lesser used shortcut.  This has completely ruined my morning and something I had promised to deliver I now can’t, because they have completely fucked with my workflow.

Your entire product team should feel shame for being so lazy.

You guys should be embarrassed that you didn’t communicate this *at all*.  Your update is devoid of any details, full of self congratulations, and bereft of any mention of changing existing functions.

You have actively harmed your community for some self important fluff.