Revert Jira Issue View back to Old View

[Nick Blay]

The new Issue View is terrible. It shoves all the information down the right side of the issue forcing you to scroll through and squint to try to find what you are looking for.
You are given the option to "See The Old View" but that does not apply to the entire system as you constantly have to select it for every issue you open or switch to.
I need a way to set the system back to the Old View and keep it that way,

Please let me know how I can accomplish this, because the new view is awful and doesn't work for the purposes I need.

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

Nick, 

Please check out the "Personal Settings/turn off Jira Labs" feature.

[Nick Blay]

Ahhhh thank you kindly Kian!
It's back to normal now! Much appreciated!

[Heidi Matchett]

unfortunately, we already DID have this turned off.  I had to turn it ON then back OFF to get back to the old view. :-(

[Nick Blay]

Mine appeared to already be off, so I just closed all my browser windows, and opened a new one and the change stuck.
Hopefully it doesn't revert again.

[Frank Han]

OMG, THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!

[Alex Anguix]

Does this affect the entire project or organisation?

This is a disaster!

Our organisation is about to transition to the cloud and with these non-custom fields friendly changes, I'm going to have to recommend finding another product.

[Ignacio C]

«We're currently transitioning everyone to the new issue view, so you're no longer able to switch back to the old issue view. Learn more»

Seriously Atlassian. WTF... 

[Nick Blay]

Hey Atlassian,

over 2 years later people STILL HATE this new view you've pushed on us,
It doesn't make working in your system effective or intuitive in the least.

How can you see this "new view" is better than the old one?
Take a look at the difference:

New View = Garbage View

Old View = Better View

The New View makes it impossible to see any information entered with any sense of flow.
You have to wade through different tabs in order to find comments, and other information...

The Old View, by contrast, puts everything front and center for users.
The only saving grace right now, is that you can Switch to Old View by clicking the 3 dots.. but how long until you remove that and take away our ability to actually use your product properly?

PLEASE RESTORE THE OLD VIEW!
Your changes are absolutely terrible!
Why do you think so many users opted out of the Jira Labs testing to restore the old view?
Listen to your users and change this back.

[Heidi Matchett]

I agree - we depend heavily on customized fields and multiple tabs.  This new look is crippling us.  :-(

[Ryan Shillington]

Agreed.  I feel like the person who designed this new view didn't have any custom fields and didn't consider them at all.  We've added all of these custom fields and now we can't see them.  It's honestly sent us looking for a different bug tracker, which is crazy because I've been using JIRA for 20+ years.  This "new view" reminds me of "New Coke".  It's a flop.

[Jeff_Rollison]

+1

Especially true with custom fields of type 'multi-line text'.

We have a multiline text field called QA notes on our bug cards.  It contains essential details for our QA team to pass information to other team members.

The new view forces that multi-line text field into the narrow right panel, with only 5 lines visible and no wysiwyg editor on field focus.  AND  there's no way to force the layout to move that custom field into the larger left panel

Jira team seriously dropped the ball on this one.

[Richard Daigle]

The new view is terrible! It removed all, i repeat, all the useable, valuable content. Who designed, then approved such an awful change?

[MarioRolletschek]

Total agree, no good change. I missed this post but I have opened exactly the same topic

[Deleted user]

In addition to the custom fields you also cant see the Tempo estimates and actuals on the new view.  I agree with statements above.  Ever since this new view has been pushed out I have heard a stream of complaints from my users.

[Mark Frederick]

I absolutely agree and no ill will but i must say the new issue view is terrible.  I had a nice chunk of real estate down the middle of the screen that could be re-used by other fields depending upon which custom tab i chose.  Now that is all shoved right and when, for example, i select multiple checkboxes from some 30 choices, the entire list is displayed in a box two inches high with an entire column of blank space below it.  Unbelievable that anyone QA'd this.  This is just one example.  Some of the changes are very good, like not forcing all date fields or system fields to display on the right.  But the bad significantly outweighs the good.  Again, no ill will.  I love the product but this is killing me and i just now started to learn how many of my 30 users got sidelined to the new view without me knowing.  They don't speak up, they just stop using Jira, while i defend it.  And now i have to restore their old view one by one manually !? 

[Scott Ocamb]

I will add to the voice here, I do not like this new view. It should not be turned on by default since so many features are removed. 

[Scott Ocamb]

Just want to add something more here...

I understand developing software using a Minimal Viable Product approach. I also understand that many features are not used at all or just a little.

I understand that Atlassian needs to learn what features are used and what ones are not used.

The mistake made here is not that the new view is bad. It may be on track to be good. 

The mistake is, it is turned on for everyone by default and very hard to turn off.  Also for most users it is not Viable.

Attlassian, Please make the option to use the new view a global setting. Then partner with your adventurous users who decide to opt in and make a kick ass new view without affecting your existing customers in a bad way.

Then when you truly have a Minimum Viable Product for most users, turn it on by default.

Rant Over .....

[Deleted user]

The "New" view is very inefficient, having to scroll down to see the basic ticket info and losing the tabs and custom fields from the view is very crippling - Not a good move for our organization

[Chad Monroe]

The new issue view is absolutely disgusting. Please allow us to change it back or we will end our Jira contract.

[Gunjan kumar Mehta]

Go to Kanban Board > Board Settings > Columns

* here you will see Backlogs as empty and on Kannan backlog column there will be a draggable item with count of your backlogs

* drag this backlogs item from Kanban backlog to Backlogs and you OLD VIEW will be back.

[Nick Blay]

I tried this, but in the columns section of the board, they are unmovable.
I'll check other sections, but I'm not sure this solution will work for me, unfortunately.

[Łukasz Franz]

The above mentioned ideas do not work anymore on my end :/ Any help?
(BTW my profile avatar is top right / not bottom left :P )

[vimal3k9]

Hey Guys, You can Turn OFF the new JIRA UI after following the below steps shown in the image.

[Miguel Costa]

yes people are aware... the point is that someone decided this was a good idea.

even worse one day that someone might even disable the option to turn it off...

those options are normally supposed to be temporary until the official roll out 

[peter]

I tried to followed the instructions in the image, but dropdown from the 3 dot menu does not have "Turn off for now." I tried it on a bug and a task.

[Nick_Blay]

Peter, 

click on your Profile and Settings picture at the bottom left of the screen:

When the menu pops up click on Settings (not Account settings).
Scroll to the bottom and find the Jira Labs section. To the right there should be a "switch" to the right. Make sure it is turned off by clicking it.

This should revert your system back to the better view.

Hope this helps!

[Sebastian Tilders]

Nope, Atlassian does not anymore allow you to switch this so called "feature" off.

[Wanga_Ngcwayi]

I don't even get the option to revert to the old view. This is annoying.

[Miguel Costa]

the new view is so bad...

it's hard to edit, hard to define sizes of pictures and the code snippets look so bad.

all the custom fields suddenly gone, tabs all messed up... not nice

also I like how this is now marked as resolved... when they decommission the old view and make this the product version how will that work?