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"Sort by" does not retain the selection.

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April 10, 2025
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Every time I exit Figma and come back, the previously selected sort order is lost, and it defaults to "Last modified" – "Newest first". Previously, the selected sorting option was always preserved.

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Hey both. Wanted to let you know that this was an intentional change on our end. From what I understand, the only page that doesn't reset preferences is the "Last projects" page now.

For more context: this was implemented after feedback from users who thought their files were missing due to filters or sort orders being enabled.

I know this was probably not the answer you wanted to hear, and I completely get why this would be a negative change to your existing workflow. I’m making sure that your opinions and feedback on this are also highlighted as well. We do take into consideration every use case, and want to be sure that changes we make benefit everyone who uses Figma.

Apologies that I can’t offer an alternative solution at this time.

If I misunderstood what your issues were, let me know. I’ll keep this open for now to get any other feedback on this you may have,

David_HernandezAuthor

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Waldo

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Figma has stopped remembering the file sorting preference: It now always defaults to ‘Last Modified’ at the beginning of session, no matter what your choice was. Can we have it back?

This is now default at the beginning of every session

I am these days having to open this dropdown ‘Sort By’ → Alphabetical 30 times a day. Last modified does not work for us since it shows us whole new set of files every time because how many people work and edit files daily; Alphabetical works better for us since we use numerical naming and then every file is correctly displayed in the intended order of product importance (home, registration, features, etc)

Christopher_Gibson

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Experiencing the same problem. Seems like it’s been going on ever since they removed list view and then added it back (about three weeks ago).

zachs

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Yes, this is driving me insane as well 😅

Waldo

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As April 22, 2025, this seems to have been fixed, at least in the web browser version.

zachs

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Yesterday I changed it to Created, then quit and restart Figma and it may have fixed it. They did also push an update shortly after. Seems okay for now.

ksnAnswer

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Hey both. Wanted to let you know that this was an intentional change on our end. From what I understand, the only page that doesn't reset preferences is the "Last projects" page now.

For more context: this was implemented after feedback from users who thought their files were missing due to filters or sort orders being enabled.

I know this was probably not the answer you wanted to hear, and I completely get why this would be a negative change to your existing workflow. I’m making sure that your opinions and feedback on this are also highlighted as well. We do take into consideration every use case, and want to be sure that changes we make benefit everyone who uses Figma.

Apologies that I can’t offer an alternative solution at this time.

If I misunderstood what your issues were, let me know. I’ll keep this open for now to get any other feedback on this you may have,

Jeff_Allison

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This makes *no sense whatsoever.* Terrible, terrible UX design.

Christopher_Gibson

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I can understand resetting filters (which would actually hide some things) in that scenario, but sorting doesn’t actually hide anything.

As a counter example, I keep effectively experiencing the same problem where things have disappeared from where I expect them to be, because I like my list sorted by date created and it keeps resetting to last modified. So the things I expect to be at the top of the list aren’t there any more when something else has been modified more recently.

Maintaining sorting as the user has set it from session to session, is actually going to result in more predictable and reliable access to the users expected files for most use cases.

If you all really want there to be a default sort that the system is going to keep resetting to, you absolutely have to make that default editable by the user, so individual users can establish what kind of ordering they want and it will reliably return to that. Otherwise you’re robbing peter to pay paul.