User Preference to include or exclude object selection in undo

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When I undo, I want undo only changes that I’ve made to a document, not what I’ve selected. I find the existing behavior to be unintuitive and counter to basically all other applications.

However, I realize some people like it the way it is, so we can we get a user option to only include document changes in Undo?

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Faiz

Is there a way we can manually turn off selections as edits while undoing?

Harold_Urquiola

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I just starting using Figma a few days ago, and this is one thing I found super frustrating. I found my self undoing multiple times because of selections. Specially in prototyping, when the majority of my selections was to view interactions, and having to undo about a dozen times just to undo one actual edit. It would be great if we had an option to not include selections in undo.

This reminds me of when Adobe changed the Free-Transform a few years back, where you didn’t have to use Shift to constraint proportions (trying to use mobile patterns in desktop). What a mess it was until they finally gave users the option to use it how it had always been.

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Filip_Mishevski

New Figma user here. Not to sound too dramatic but I find this bizarre! 🙂 Sometimes I undo 10 times just to get to reverse the desired action. Experienced Figma users might have gotten used to it but this is definitely not according to expectations set by all other tools (not just design). My second expectation was to find a setting to toggle between undo containing everything and undo only actions. I see a lot of people here had the same 2 expectations. C’mon Figma, make our lives a bit easier 😉

Zainal_Muttaqin

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For now I really really really need this feature than other features

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johannes17

This is so essential, please fix. Or make it optional at least, so @Gleb could keep his workflow.

Adrian_Pauly

So 2 years and nothing? This should change. Make it optional?

My main issue with this is that if for some reason I need to go WAY back… undo a ton of actions to go back to a previous state if I change my mind on a big sweeping change… then I run out of undos really quickly and can’t go as far back as I needed.

Vijayakumar_Rajaram

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Welcome to the monopoly world of UI Design Tools 👽

daniel_diekmann1

So, will we get any update on this? This is so annoying. @Gleb That’s nice if it suits your workflow, but that’s obviously not what your users want.

Adrian_Pauly

I can’t believe this hasn’t been addressed. It’s such a weird choice and there are obviously so many users annoyed with this. Just putting my vote in to make this a toggleable setting! Should be a no-brainer