[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.
Fix for this issue is available in the latest InDesign 2026 release (21.2.0.30) and InDesign 2025 LTS release (20.5.2.078), please update to this release from CCD app.
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Adobe InDesign team
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Wendy Mets
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Still losing so much time and work because of this bug!! When will it be fixed??
Not normal for the price we pay for the Adobe suite... -
Álvaro
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Hi, the same thing is happening in the current version, 21.3. Can you fix it? I had to install an older version. 19.0 version, that's a stable version without those kinds of issues; I'm going to switch back to that version, or maybe I'll try Affinity.
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Birgitte
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This hasn't been fixed. Please fix this 3 months ago.
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Zachary Vando-Milberger commented
I'm using 21.2.0.30 as advised and it is 100% NOT fixed. I spent 20 minutes fixing an issue because I couldn't undo it. MacOS 15.7.3 8gb ram
Edit: I tried to save the file and it crashed. Lost 2 hours of work. Luckily I saved a pdf but I can't make changes anymore.
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James Webb commented
I'm using InDesign 2026 21.3 and you most certainly have not fixed it!
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Margaux Estrabaut commented
Still not working .... I have to hand out a work tomorrow. It's taking me for ever to finish because of this bug. It's been like this for a few weeks and I still have to pay for this app......... pls fix it soon
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Filip Blazek
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Why do you mark issues as fixed when they are not? PLEASE FIX IT NOW!
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Melissa McHugh commented
this is STILL happening, and as someone who makes lots of graphics (or even complicated map graphics) I need to be able to undo like we used to. I never even noticed a limit, it would allow undos all the way up until you first opened the file. This is a critical issue in my opinion. Workspace is a Surface Laptop 6 for Business running Windows 11 Pro, RAM is 16 GB.
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TANUSHA SINGH-PATEL commented
running into this issue, undo button is greyed out and ctrl Z doesnt work. bugs with placing images from files. instead of mouse there is the loading symbol and often crashes and closes.
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Scott
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This is still happening for me in version 21.3 on an M1 Max, macOS 15.7.3.
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megdoubleu
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weird glitches in the newest Indesign: suddenly my redo stops working and when I go to restart Indesign it freezes so I need to force quit. This is NOT GOOD! I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times to no avail.
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Giovani Cospefogo commented
I am still at 21.2 (Windows 10, 16GB of RAM) — undo stack clearing itself was solved, but now, from time to time, I get a dialog popup saying something like: YOU CAN'T UNDO THIS ACTION, ARE YOU SURE TO CONTINUE? [YES] [NO].
Super annoying. Everytime I need to re-save the document with a new name and close and re-open InDesign.
Why oh why we can't go back to those fond times of InDesign version 19.xx?
No sharing stuff, no IA, no useless features...
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Peter Cury commented
This is also happening in the latest version: 21.3
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Jordan Nicole Smith commented
Can't undo even once.
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Courtney commented
Having this issue. Can't undo. I'm running 21.2 and also crashing
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mohana commented
undo option bug still perists please FIX THIS ASAP i cant even undo not once
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Anonymous commented
Bug is not solved. I have Indesign 21.2 and working on a MacBook Pro running Tahoe 26.2. I can't even undo once. This is a serious problem!
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prd789
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I'm working on an M4 mac with Sequoia and on 21. 2 and experiencing a related issue where a state "Update Link" is added to the History panel every time I switch focus to another app or another file and click back to the original file. There are no links in my files and no changes are being added, it just "updates link" on re-focus. Once I undo some states and then switch to another file and then refocus, it clears History states. Once this is triggered, it happens for every open or new InDesign files until I quit and restart InDesign.
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Anne-Charlotte Patterson commented
As of today February 20, 2026, Undo is unavailable after a few uses. I just updated to the latest version about a week ago.
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Yvonne Stolterfoht commented
Hi Ravi as of today: February 18th 2026 the undo / redo functionality is completely missing (greyed out) in the latest InDesign Release.