How to see and restore version history in Figma

Figma writes an autosave checkpoint every 30 minutes while a file is being edited. Those checkpoints appear in the version list next to any named versions people saved by hand. Named versions are the ones worth relying on, because you choose the moment and the title.

• Starter plan: 30 days of version history.
• Paid plans: the full history of the file.

Press ⌘⌥S on Mac or Ctrl+Alt+S on Windows. Figma asks for a title, which can be up to 25 characters. Save one before any change that's hard to undo: a big component refactor, replacing missing fonts across the file, or a handoff to developers.

Open Show Version History, right-click the version you want and choose Restore This Version. Restoring doesn't throw anything away: Figma keeps the state you had before the restore as its own entry in history, so you can go back to it if you picked the wrong version.

If you only need a few frames from an old version, choose Duplicate instead. Figma opens that version as a separate file, and you copy what you need back into the current one without rolling back everyone else's work.

Restore and Duplicate both need edit access to the file. With can view access, you can look at old versions but you can't restore or duplicate them. Ask the owner for edit access (see how to change edit access in Figma) or ask an editor to restore it.

If the version you want isn't in the list, check how old it is. On the Starter plan, versions older than 30 days are gone. If the whole panel won't load or Figma is misbehaving in other ways, start with Figma not working.

For recent changes, undo is faster than version history. Press ⌘Z on Mac or Ctrl+Z on Windows, repeatedly if you need to step back further. Redo is commonly ⇧⌘Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z (or Ctrl+Y), but Figma's help center doesn't list it, so check the shortcuts panel with Ctrl+Shift+?. If undo does nothing, the usual cause is a keyboard layout mismatch, covered in Figma shortcuts not working.

Undo steps back through your own recent actions. To get back a state from yesterday, or from before a teammate's edits, open version history and restore or duplicate from there.

• Before replacing missing fonts across the file, which changes it for everyone.
• Before a large refactor of components or variables.
• At each handoff or review, so you can point people at the exact version they saw.
• Before transferring ownership of the file or restricting who can edit it.

Keep titles short and specific, such as Handoff v2 or Before font swap. You only get 25 characters.

Figma's help center doesn't document a way to delete versions from a file's history. If you need a copy of a file without its history, Save local copy writes a .fig file that leaves out version history and comments, and it reopens as a new, unlinked file. See how to save a Figma file locally.

Version history is a timeline of one file. Branching lets you work on a copy of the main file and merge it back when you're done. It's only on Organization and Enterprise plans and needs a Full seat. Create one from the file name menu with Create branch…. Anyone with edit access to the main file can merge, and merging archives the branch. On other plans, Duplicate from version history and a named version before big changes give you most of the same safety.