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Nov 13, 2026 10:00 PM UTC
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History panel Clear All button leaves the last history entry – Lightroom Classic 16.0 (Windows)

History panel Clear All button leaves the last history entry – Lightroom Classic 16.0 (Windows)

Description of issue:

Since updating to Lightroom Classic 16.0, clicking the X (Clear All) button in the Develop module's History panel no longer clears the entire history.

All history entries are removed except for the most recent entry, which remains visible.

In previous versions, clicking Clear All would completely empty the History panel.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open Lightroom Classic 16.0 on Windows.
  2. Select any photograph and enter the Develop module.
  3. Make several Develop adjustments so that multiple History entries are created.
  4. Click the X button in the History panel to clear the history.
  5. Observe that the last History entry remains.

Expected result:

The Clear All button should remove every History entry, leaving the History panel completely empty, without changing the current Develop adjustments.

Actual result:

All entries are removed except the most recent History entry.

Environment:

  • Application: Adobe Lightroom Classic 16.0
  • Operating system: Windows
  • Module: Develop
  • Component: History panel

This behaviour appears to have been introduced in version 16.0.

    1 reply

    Califdan2
    Califdan2
    Inspiring
    Nov 13, 2026 11:44 PM UTC

    While it may be different, I think it makes sense.  That last history step ‘contains’ the current state of the image and getting rid of it would imply that the image had no edits at all and that is the same as doing a “Reset”. 

    The assumption (at least my assumption) is that if you select to “Clear the History” the goal is to reduce catalog size used in keeping the state of the image for each step along the way and to tidy up the clutter of history steps you will never need to go back to, but not to change the look of the image.  To me keeping the most recent step which contains the current state of the image makes sense. 

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