Problem: Bring forward shortrcut (cmd+alt+up/down) rotates the object

This is so fucking annoying and stupid I don’t know where to begin. Yet another unbelievable move by Figma that just keeps getting worse.

1. There is NO WAY rotate +-1° is used more often than Bring forward/Send backward. So why not just create a new shortcut for rotate, instead of “stealing” an already used one?!?!?!
2. Using up/down arrows for rotating left/right makes no sense whatsoever. 🤯
3. You say users can now use Cmd+[ to Bring forward/Send backward, but guess what – for people with non-English keyboards (like myself and probably 10000 millions others) this doesn’t work. 🤡
4. In your “Keyboard shortcuts” settings, why can’t I just create my own shortcuts in the first place? How is that for accessibility?!
5. I’ve tried to override this stupid change by going to my MacBook’s keyboard shortcut settings and assign Cmd+Alt+Up/Down to send layers forward/backward, and in the Figma “Object” menu it looks like the change has been confirmed, but nope! Still rotates.

You say you do these changes to “to make Figma easier to navigate for all” which is completely nonsense. You’re making it HARDER for a MAJORITY. I’m betting my right arm you’re damaging more people’s workflow by this change than helping those with screen readers, which you say is the reason for this change.

Please bring back the old shortcut. Working with a non us keyboard layout makes the new shortcut ridiculous to press for such a common interaction. I almost never rotate anything in figma, but I move layers by the minute.. 

​@Tom Reem what if you unmap all the shortcuts from the alt+cmd+up/down? It allows the solution ​@David Samuelson to work. So the users who want to move layers could map their preferred shortcut, and the users who prefer to rotate could rotate.

That would be the real accessibility.

Shortcut is BACK for me.
GJ Figma for listening to your userbase.

EDIT: Nvm.. scratch that. it was a bug I think.

The problem with me is the physicality, I don’t intuitively understand what CMD + [  or CMD + ] will do. Which one is move up/down? This feels like something you could use to left/right align, not move up/down. This needs to be with the up/down arrows. 

Hi Tom, do you have any update from the product team on this issue? 

The fact that they simply changed an important the shortcut like that is outrageous.

But what surprises me even more is the lack of outcry from the community. Where are the hundreds of thousands of users who use Figma professionally?? You can't tell me that a change like this doesn't annoy a lot more users. Something is wrong here.

It’s being silenced at this point.
pretty effing embarrassing because I just paid for a year and the first thing I need to deal with is completely rewriting my muscle memory. f this.

just piling on to the massive number of people who are all mad at this absurd change. paying customer here since 2017! converted two massive corporations over from adobe. keep crap like this up and I PROMISE you will be disrupted just like you disrupted them. affinity/canva is coming for you...

Adding in to say that the previous shortcut made so much sense! I really have to think each time I’m going to change the order now, and I’m super annoyed when accidentally rotating layers. Totally bonkers, this change!

As a european using french keyboard on Macbook Pro, I now cannot send forward / backward layers, something I was doing dozens of times a day (I rarely if ever need to rotate something). 

I have been locked out from a feature I was using constantly, from an “”””accessibility update””””.

Congrats team! 

I love Figma but they really need to go back to what they had before the up and down button! this is especially affecting me because I use a german keyboard and to get to the [ ] is not easy accesible :(

Same here. They should at least allow us to assign our own shortcuts...

There is a work around I found, go to preferences in Figma - Keyboard layout - and schoose German QUERTZ. There is a note too there that says “Figma keyboard won’t automatically change if you change your system keyboard layout” I have now the system too in DE and what happens now is that I use: ö (down) and ä (up) to move elements all the way to the bottom or up (they also show the shortcut when you right click the element) and use control and those two letters to move up and down one by one. Perhaps you already found this solution but thought I post it maybe it can help someone else. I still think the arrows was the BEST shortcut! 

Wait a minute!! I didn’t know that you can change the keyboard layout internally. Thank you very much for the hint. This basically solves the issue on my end. I’m fine with Ö and Ä 😎 even though, arrows would be more suitable.

Have a great and creative day.

I love Figma but they really need to go back to what they had before the up and down button! this is especially affecting me because I use a german keyboard and to get to the [ ] is not easy accesible :(

Same here. They should at least allow us to assign our own shortcuts...

There is a work around I found, go to preferences in Figma - Keyboard layout - and schoose German QUERTZ. There is a note too there that says “Figma keyboard won’t automatically change if you change your system keyboard layout” I have now the system too in DE and what happens now is that I use: ö (down) and ä (up) to move elements all the way to the bottom or up (they also show the shortcut when you right click the element) and use control and those two letters to move up and down one by one. Perhaps you already found this solution but thought I post it maybe it can help someone else. I still think the arrows was the BEST shortcut! 

Wait a minute!! I didn’t know that you can change the keyboard layout internally. Thank you very much for the hint. This basically solves the issue on my end. I’m fine with Ö and Ä 😎 even though, arrows would be more suitable.

Have a great and creative day.

 

I found out today also :) glad that I could help! thanks :) you as well!

Maggie