Thanks for sharing this. I moved it to the product feedback category so you and others can vote and add additional context.

Hello. I would like to support topic starter and confirm that I have to manually move duplicated layers to the top every time a new duplicate is created. Figma is almost 100% perfect tool in its niche but the new-at-the-top schema is simply totally user unfriendly. I really do not know any other app which has layers that would put new layers at the top…

@Josh What’s the status of this? This would be my number one request in terms of saving time and effort in reordering layers. An option in Settings to choose “Duplicate Layer Down” would be a massive efficiency improvement to my workflow 🙏

Please make this happen. It’s one of the most frustrating issues I have with figma.

@Josh any updates on this? I thought this would have already been existing in Figma but it isn’t. Like to know the update on this.

This has to be my biggest issue with using Figma. Why not have the new layer you just created appear sequentially above the last layer you have created. or at least in the same art board or folder? Makes no sense sending it all the way to top, not intuitive at all.

This is also one of my biggest annoyances, as someone who tries to keep their layers organized this single feature would save a lot of time spent re-organizing things!

I have to agree here. It drives me crazy. The opposite is logical.

Any update on this?

yes please do this

Hi, has this been changed? In the month I’ve used Figma, I’m overall very happy with it, except for this one quirk. It’s not intuitive and wastes time.

I pray for this feature to be done - I am new to Figma, but experienced with other creativity tools over 20 years, and this is really anti-pattern to put newly duplicated items above the original items.

Also, the newly duplicated items should be selected. Now, when I duplicate anything and start to modify the item, I realize that I am editing the original item instead of the new one.

I’m also really hoping for this feature, drives me crazy having to constantly manage the ordering of layers so they match the flow of the document!

What is wrong with @Customer_Support ? Please review this thread. It makes NO sense to have new layers stack above layers you already created! If I design: Navbar > Header > Footer – Then why on earth would you default order it: Footer > Header > Navbar? Now the Navbar is buried at the bottom of the layers. Please fix this already, there are tons of reddit and forum threads saying the same thing. I don’t know enough HTML to know if it’s justified in some way… but designers think logically… Left to Right / Top to Bottom. So if this has to be done for Developers – make the layers switch in Dev mode. Or provide a sorting feature that helps with New > Old / Old > New / Page Hierarchy by Position (see sorter plugin by position). This is a fundamental feature that’s irritating many designers and causing confusion. Don’t rely on your plugin community to fix what amounts to a bug for most of your users. I hope you fix this soon!

IDEA: duplicate shortcut works on key-up. By default it behaves like it does (or a setting override), by pressing cmd+d an item is duplicated above the selected item.

By pressing an arrow key while holding cmd+d, would position the element corrspondingly to an arrow key pressed.

(and yes, I am assuming that holding cmd+d and spamming duplicates is a remotely useless feature)