"Sort by" does not retain the selection.

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
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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Best answer by ksn

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,

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Luongnd

Active Member

I continue to have this problem. I represent a large enterprise customer, and it is infuriating that my sort order is not being preserved across sessions. -- For context, I have enforced a strict file naming convention for the team’s work and having it reset to “recent” destroys all my structure.

@ksn

“For more context: this was implemented after feedback from users who thought their files were missing due to filters or sort orders being enabled.” Sort order preference should be tied to the user ID. Not the team or the group. By not preserving this preference you compound the error of “Users who think their files are missing”

This was a bad UX decision and I’m loosing patience with paying this price on 8x daily.
As an Alpha user testing out your very newest features this basic usability problem should be a simple and straightforward to solve.

Our team also has a strict file naming structure. Ever since Figma enforced this change we wasted efforts everyday changing the sorting back, project to project.

Caroline Cardiasmenos

New Member

Please retain my project sort order. It’s okay to reset filters - as these do hide files. Sort order is heavily dependent on a team’s workflow. For example, my team relies on alpha order to successfully browse through a long list of files related to one project, which are all being regularly modified by multiple contributors and follow a naming convention. Since date order is now the default order, the sort order has to be reset literally every time we look at the list, multiple times a day, which means we struggle with files that feel missing.

Audrey T

New Member

+1

Audrey T

New Member

Please fix this!

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Devon_Skidmore

New Member

it’d be nice if it applied across all folders too. I have to change it every time i look in a different folder.

Christopher_Gibson

New Participant

@ksn Could we maybe get an update here? This problem has been going on for over a year and it doesn’t seem like it should be that hard to fix.

If the intent is to never do this, could we get some kind of answer for why the devs think that shuffling projects so that they’re not in the order users expect them to be in is actually a good interface?