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October 13, 2025
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Problem: Bring forward shortrcut (cmd+alt+up/down) rotates the object

  • October 13, 2025
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Cmd+alt+up/down recently started to rotate object instead of moving the layer up down.

How to fix/disable it?

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David Samuelson
New Member
October 27, 2025

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.

Flo_Sebald1
New Member
October 27, 2025

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.. 

Grigory88Author
October 29, 2025

@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.

Shaked
New Participant
October 29, 2025

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

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

Gerardo Diaz
New Member
November 5, 2025

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. 

TDRKRTWRK
November 6, 2025

[...]

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.

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

BenjaminLeitgeb
New Member
November 6, 2025

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.

Shaked
New Participant
November 11, 2025

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.

buggle
New Member
November 14, 2025

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...

simgust
New Participant
November 27, 2025

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!