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Mads
Mads
February 22, 2021

Quickly go to last visited page and back

  • February 22, 2021
  • 79 replies
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Clicking between two pages is inconvenient – there should be a hotkey for that.

Context — I have components in Page A and need to see the changes I make on Page B. I make lots and lots of small iterations to my design and want to swap between Page A and B quickly to see results.

Solution — A back and forward button (or hotkey) that let’s you jump between pages you’ve last visited and forward again.

      Pinned Reply By djv

      Hey All, thank you for your continued feedback! 

      I’ve passed this topic onto our team for future consideration. Please know that this is on their radar for improvement, but they have no exact timeline to share on when or if it will be implemented. I’ll be sure to provide an update here, if there are any promising updates from the team.

      Thanks again for your patience and understanding!

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      imikelic
      imikelic
      January 27, 2022

      Great idea and huge time saver. Especially usable for files with lots of pages to quickly navigate back and forward thru pages. 🔙 ▶️

      Gleb
      Gleb
      Power Member
      February 10, 2022

      I’ve made a suggestion to combine navigation and selection history, let me know what you think of it: User Preference to include or exclude object selection in undo - #10 by Gleb

        Richard_van_Laak
        Richard_van_Laak
        March 16, 2022

        Alt ← and Alt → currently are used for adjusting letter spacing, but how often does that get used in comparison with going back and forward between previous edit locations?

        Imho using these shortcuts for navigation to previous edit / action locations is a no brainer, because the shortcut then would be useful thousands of time per day.

          joshmillgate
          joshmillgate
          May 11, 2022

          Really need this feature, one of my biggest pain points in Figma. Especially in a design system with lots of pages and components. I quickly want to be able to go ‘back’ to the page I was just on.

            Petru_Strimbeanu1
            Petru_Strimbeanu1
            June 8, 2022

            Switched to Figma from InDesign. And I often press CTRL+PgUp for previous place and CTRL+PgDn for forward. Very useful in InDesign and I’m missing that very much in Figma.

              Katelyn_Thompson1
              Katelyn_Thompson1
              June 16, 2022

              Adding my list to the many here of how helpful this would be.

                Liam_Sheppard
                Liam_Sheppard
                July 7, 2022

                Another comment just to say this would also be helpful for me, I keep intuitively trying to do it with the back button on my mouse and then realising the functionality doesn’t exist

                  Anton_L
                  Anton_L
                  July 25, 2022

                  Plus one for this function. Although I’m a dev and not a designer, this is literally my biggest gripe with Figma, and one of the only ones even. Mouse back button for sure, and keyboard shortcut would be nice.

                    Kevin_Boosten
                    Kevin_Boosten
                    New Member
                    November 8, 2022

                    Definitely would be great to have this!
                    As an addition: gesture based navigation support for macOS users.
                    I think many macOS users are used to navigate in apps by swiping back and forth to bring you to your previous/next page (slack, Finder etc. ) or even cursor position (xcode, IntelliJ).

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                    Huksley
                    Huksley
                    December 9, 2022

                    I use VSCode a lot and it is so frequent action to quickly visit some file and go back to the previous file.

                    Working with components in Figma and miss this shortcut of visiting some other page (to check components or colors) and returning quickly to my prototyping page.

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