[ID-4274243] InDesign clearing Undo stack frequently
Undo not working, InDesign 21.02x64
16.12.2025
As recently as yesterday, it was possible to perform more than 50 undo actions, but today only 1–2 steps are available, and my colleagues are experiencing the same issue.
Antonina
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Hi,
Thank you for reporting the issue. We have been able to reproduce the issue, and it is currently under investigation.
Analysis
- We have been able to reproduce the issue on Windows, and it is currently under investigation.
- The root cause is that the UNDO stack is getting purged and the issue is getting manifested in History Panel.
- The issue is intermittently(depends on when InDesign chooses to purge the stack) getting reproduced on Windows machine only. The issue is not observed on Macintosh.
- It has started to be reported by customer recently 14-Dec-2025 onwards. A Windows update has been pushed on 09 December 2025 for Win11 23H2, 24H2 and 25H2. Refer to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/december-9-2025-kb5071417-os-build-22631-6345-5b7b15d8-96a2-4c8f-a61d-b5e1bc9618f8
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Adobe InDesign Team
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Ísis Duarte commented
Same here! Actually, my InDesign is messing up the entire history. It saves some steps in the history and not others. Then, it deletes some steps or the entire history. So you can perform some actions and then everything disappears again. In short, a mess!
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Kate
commented
Since the latest update I cannot undo something in a document more than twice...its very frustrating.
1. Adobe InDesign 2026
2. Hit CTRL-Z more than twice
3. I used to be able to undo something at least 50 steps
4. Should be unlimited undos. -
Silke Engel commented
since last update it is not possible to go more than one step back (STRG+Z) any more, also there is only the last step shown in the protocol palette. According to the Indesign help files there shall be 25.000 steps saved. Honestly, it sucks while trying different versions in an early state of layout.
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Teri
commented
The option to Undo is not working properly in the latest version. I cannot 'undo' more than three times, after which the option is not available (greyed out).
