Photoshop 2026 - Undo history limited to 5

​@D Fosse wrote: Beyond that there has never been a limit to this.

Not in recent memory anyway! Back in the dark ages Photoshop had one undo (sometimes). The History panel (called a palette in those days) was introduced in 1998.

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2025/02/19/celebrating-35-years-of-creativity-community-innovation-with-adobe-photoshop

Jane

​@honest_miss ​@Sophie21899903vc7c  I also don’t see this issue.

Try to reset the Photoshop preferences

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually

Remember to back up your settings before doing the preference reset

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preset-migration.html

I get that too. It’s set to 50 in preferences but will only undo 5. So frustrating!

As the others said. Undo is just another word for history state, and you can undo for as many history states as you have set in Preferences. Beyond that there has never been a limit to this.

​@honest_miss I’m not seeing the issue you reported, I’m using Photoshop version 27.3 on Windows 11, I just tested and can easily undo 20 history states using Ctrl + Z

What’s your history state set to in the preferences

Haven’t heard of or seen any posts about that for Photoshop 2026.

Doesn’t seem to be an issue here with Photoshop 2026 (ps ver 27.2) or the just released 27.3 Photoshop 2026 update on either Windows or Mac.

What version of Photoshop and operating system are you using?

In Photoshop’s History panel do you have more than 5 history states showing, but your only able to go back five or maybe you could explain the issue in more detail so we can try to replicate it.