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InDesign Undo history clears itself without user action

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November 21, 2025
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Undo steps disappear automatically while working.
Undo history resets to ~3 entries without any undo action being triggered.

This happens reproducibly every ~10 seconds.

Preflight is disabled.

Reproducible in:
- new documents
- local files (no cloud documents)
- fresh installs
- multiple machines

Windows 11.
Photoshop is not affected.

please help : (

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Correct answer Harshika Verma

How can you say you don't understand?
We pay for programs that must be tested as stable BEFORE being released. We don't care about constant little innovations; we want STABLE programs that work.
Try to speak like professionals, as you should be.
Please review this and other threads, as we've been working with a program that contains bugs.
We're not grumbling, we're angry.

Hi All,

Thank you for your patience. The team has released a Fix for this issue is now available in the latest InDesign Prerelease build - 21.2.0.27

Please try out this Prerelease build and let us know if it resolves the issue.

If you are not already part of InDesign's Prerelease program and would like to join and try out the latest Prerelease build, please do the following:

* Go to https://adobe.ly/4qUXgUv

* Sign in with your Adobe ID (the Email ID associated with your Adobe account)

* Select ‘Available Programs’

* Find ‘InDesign Prerelease’ and click ‘Join’

* Once you’ve joined, go to the Creative Cloud Desktop Application on your machine, click on 'Apps' in the section on the left

* Select the 'Pre-release' tab – there you will find the InDesign (Prerelease) build

* To check the Build number of the Prerelease build, hover the cursor over the name – you will see the Build number 'v_________'

* Select ‘Install’

Thanks,

Harshika

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Drupio

This is critical action that we all need fixed! Please let us know when the patch will be reslesed for this. It making it extremely hard to work in indesgn.

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tzach5C4A

Participating Frequently

Unfortunately, it seems to me that fixing the bug is not their top priority. There are more important programs like Photoshop and Primer that they work on more, leaving InDesign behind. The bugs that are added from update to update will prove it.

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jtilt2008

You would think that an $800/year program would test core features of their programs before releasing updates...

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tzach5C4A

Participating Frequently

The problem is that the previous version also has the same problem, and so does the version before it.

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Outdesing

Habe soeben das neueste Indesign-Update (21.1) installiert. Die seit einer Woche hier in diesem Thread beschriebenen Fehler existieren nach wie vor!
DANKE FÜR NICHTS, Adobe!!!

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Ttessarte

It's been more than a week and we still dont have a solution for this.

We are paying a not-so-cheap monthly amount to Adobe, and in my case I ve been unable to work. There is no way on Earth I can work on long files with this bug. I lost two projects this week, meaning Im losing a good amount of money, and Im assuming the situation is same for most people here.

This needs to be fixed now.

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tzach5C4A

Participating Frequently

I agree with every word. I've had several big book projects fall through because of this damn bug.

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Anonymous

I've been using InDesign version 20.0.1 on my desktop and laptop for almost a year. Even though I haven't done any updates, I've been unable to use the rollback history since the beginning of this month. Additionally, a "visual error" has started occurring where text in the text field I'm working on disappears.

I'm using Windows 11 Enterprise version 22H2 on my desktop and Windows 11 version 25H2 on my laptop. I've tried deleting InDesign user preferences on both my computer and laptop, and then individually installing all versions of 2025. Even after installing version 2026, the errors mentioned above persist.

I've also removed both Windows 11 updates from December, but the errors continue. Looking at Adobe's updates, I noticed that Acrobat, which is used across all computers and systems, was updated on December 7, 2025. Could this update be contributing to the errors in InDesign? Are you also aware that this issue has occurred in the past? Here's the relevant link: "https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/35759284--limited-undo-indesign-cc-2019-v14-0-strg-z-c?page=2&per_page=1"

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

This is a known issue and seems it is being worked upon. See the following discussion

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-undo-history-clears-itself-without-user-action/m-p/15632074

-Manan

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Anonymous

I've been using InDesign version 20.0.1 on my desktop and laptop for almost a year. Even though I haven't done any updates, I've been unable to use the rollback history since the beginning of this month. Additionally, a "visual error" has started occurring where text in the text field I'm working on disappears.

I'm using Windows 11 Enterprise version 22H2 on my desktop and Windows 11 version 25H2 on my laptop. I've tried deleting InDesign user preferences on both my computer and laptop, and then individually installing all versions of 2025. Even after installing version 2026, the errors mentioned above persist.

I've also removed both Windows 11 updates from December, but the errors continue. Looking at Adobe's updates, I noticed that Acrobat, which is used across all computers and systems, was updated on December 7, 2025. Could this update be contributing to the errors in InDesign? Are you also aware that this issue has occurred in the past? Here's the relevant link: "https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/35759284--limited-undo-indesign-cc-2019-v14-0-strg-z-c?page=2&per_page=1"

Harshika Verma

Community Manager

Hi Vahdettin_5834,

Thank you for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble. This is a known issue, and the team is actively working on it. We are tracking the issue here. Please stay tuned to this UserVoice page for future updates.

Thanks,

Harshika

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grahamf71544212

Often a section of my text disappears when I am editing. I recover by Control Z, but I can only undo once not 25,000 times. Something is wrong with my History storage.

Regards Graham Franklin

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Undo issue is know and acknowledged and is currently being looked up as per https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-undo-history-clears-itself-without-user-action/m-p/15632074

-Manan

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raghav_9927

Give us a date when will this be resolved my whole team of 70+ members are facing the same issue, and how to raise this to higher authorities directly as no one from this community department is taking this seriously

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rosarot75

Ich denke das Problem is seit dem letzten Update! Ich habe das Problem auch nur auf meinem Windows PC. Bei meinem Macbook ist alles ok mit der neuesten Indesign Version!

Anbei übersende ich euch ein Video von dem Problem!

2025-12-21_21-42-36.zip

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raghav_9927

yes everyone is facing the same problem, this new version 2026 have too much bugs

leo.r

Community Expert

For those who came upon this older thread now, here's the thread where the current issue with undo reset on Windows is discussed:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-undo-history-clears-itself-without-user-action/m-p/15639353/page/6#M645261

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tzach5C4A

Participating Frequently

Also joining this terrible problem.
From what I understand, there is a Windows update that caused this whole problem. Does anyone know which update to remove for now?

OsakaWebbie

Inspiring

That was one theory, but it's not true - it is happening on Windows 10 as well as 11, and many different versions. And for some of us, it started happening without having recently done any Windows updates. It's clearly something going on with InDesign - Adobe developers are aware of it, so we just need to wait. You can vote for it on UserVoice: https://adobe.ly/4jaiQSs

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