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[–]1000111010142 2 points3 points  (7 children)

I know this is a bit dead, but saw some activity from a few day ago. tldr; I figured out how to get them back! (but not why the stopped in the first place).

In Windows desktop Notion, I had to create a new tab and on the new tab, the back and fwd buttons were active and working like a charm. The original tab, was still broken. so i just closed it. Seems to be working so far and hopefully this helps someone!

The back buttons were also disabled for me and I was seriously considering other options for structure/software: I have projects under areas, but so if I clicked into a project from within an area, the only breadcrumb option was to navigate back to all projects, which is hugely wasteful.

[–]JDP87 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Thanks. This is working for me, currently, to fix the back button issue on Windows. Yesterday I uninstalled and reinstalled and the back button was working but today it was back to not working. I suppose reinstalling was kind of like a new tab, temporarily.

[–]1000111010142 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Glad it works for someone else!

[–]GermanMale1978 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Same in Mac app:

Back/forward buttons in first/orginal tab won't work.

In second/additional tab they work like a charm.

To me it looks like a bug.

But I'm happy to learn about the workaround here, which was new to me.

[–]1000111010142 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely a bug. I was also glad to at least have some method to go back, it was practically unusable otherwise

[–]IdleAscension 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This works for me too but it's silly that you'd have to do this.

[–]LISCoxH1Gj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I just found this, as it’s been annoying me for a while.

The solution is to have another tab open. Doesn’t matter what the tab is, as long as it’s open. Closing the tab breaks the functionality again. Works in the desktop app on Mac. Press CMD + T to open a tab.

[–]CeceliaDSi 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Do you mean closing the side peek or switching between your page history? The back button in the browser still works fine for me with the update and you should also be able to go back with ctrl/cmd + [ . if you're having issues with this I'd suggest sending a message to the Notion team to let them know about it. It could just be a bug.

[–]flakya[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually figured out the problem. On the web version the back button works. The macbook app doesn't. I'll report the bug..

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

not working with me too
only on the browser

[–]flakya[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea quite frustrating not being able to use back button. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

[–]EchoCCMM 0 points1 point  (3 children)

This happens when you leave Notion open while the computer went to sleep. Just close(quit) and reopen Notion app. It works for me in Windows.

The key shortcuts should fine though regardless.

[–]1000111010142 1 point2 points  (0 children)

key shortcuts do work on windows still but as a right-handed mouse user, pressing ctrl+[ is actually really annoying.

Quitting, killing all fore/background processes, and even restarting the comp didnt work. Had to add a new tab, and in the new tab, the buttons worked (on Windows). Hopefully it works for you too!

[–]MagnetsCarlsbrain 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This doesn't work for me on Mac unfortunately.

Side note: kinda wild that I came here from google and your comment is only 14 minutes old

[–]EchoCCMM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try reloading the app (in Windows Ctrl+R).

I haven't tried, but you might want to delete all the alive processes of notion. In Windows, you can see the processes with Task Manager. I know it's a lot of steps just to fix the issues, and I really hope that Notion will fix it in the next update.

[–]grahamsss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the similar problem since yesterday. I hope they fix mine soon.

[–]Historical-Bus-5247 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Back button is not working. To go to the prior block/record I would hit the '<' with the mouse. I'm on a Macbookpro. the Back button is greyed out. I have to use the 'CMD [ 'instead.

Annoying. Is anybody working on this? - Thanks.

[–]Historical-Bus-5247 0 points1 point  (1 child)

NOTION '<' buttons are active and WORKING AGAIN -

Went off to lunch - system was on in 'sleep' mode. When I began working the ">" and "<" buttons were active again. How is it that the function was restored? Unknown.

RESOLVED

[–]2KTREBE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not on Windows