Title: Please remove Auto-save
Last modified: May 31, 2022

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# Please remove Auto-save

 *  Resolved [AlGala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/algala/)
 * (@algala)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-auto-save/)
 * Hi,
 * I really, really wish there was a way to turn off the stupid auto-save feature
   that Elementor does. I do not want it to auto-save… often, if I make a mistake
   while working on a back-end editor, all I need to do is close the editor, and
   my mistake is gone.
 * Having Elementor autosave EVERY little thing is really annoying. I can’t tell
   you how many times I have done something and did not want Elementor to save that
   change.

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 *  [Elementor Team](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talmo/)
 * (@talmo)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-auto-save/#post-15697528)
 * Hi,
 * This is the editor and WP default action so you won’t lose anything.
 * We do offer a history rollback, if you are on the same page and want to go back
   to the starting point, before you exit the page, click on the little arrow circle
   at the bottom of the widget panel and click on the point you want to go back 
   to.
 * I will add this as a feature request to have a disable autosave button.
 *  Thread Starter [AlGala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/algala/)
 * (@algala)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-auto-save/#post-15699528)
 * Yes that would be great, and that’s all that is needed, just a button in the 
   settings to turn off auto-save. That would be a huge help and solve a lot of 
   the issues I face due to the auto-save feature. Plus, giving people options is
   so much better than forcing everyone to use your auto-save feature.
 * Please let me know if there will be a link to the feature request so I can vote
   on it, thank you.
 *  [Elementor Team](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talmo/)
 * (@talmo)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-auto-save/#post-15701234)
 * Hi,
 * Our feature requests are not by voting, we wish to add them all but it might 
   take a bit of time, you can keep an eye on our changelog to see new features –
   
   [https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/#developers](https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/#developers)
 * I will close this ticket, for now, please do open a new one if you need any further
   assistance in the future!
 *  [scotth454](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scotth454/)
 * (@scotth454)
 * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-auto-save/#post-15744800)
 * I see this was a recent post so glad to see something might happen. I have spent
   the last 6 months trying to rebuild my website as carefully as possible to keep
   a clean database. I do not like the idea of every little action creating a new
   database data entry bumping the post id number. In some places that number is
   relevant and I don’t want to see crazy high numbers that increase over the life
   of the website. I recently moved my website to a live server and have the default
   autosave and revisions code in my config set to disable them. I just noticed 
   editing elementor templates that it is still creating autosave data entries in
   the database. As for the original poster, some of us build the design offline
   and then put the content on the live version and don’t need the autosave or revisions.
   Make sure people know when there is a disable option please, took me a while 
   to find out there was a disable option for that admin top bar.
 *  Thread Starter [AlGala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/algala/)
 * (@algala)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-auto-save/#post-15843826)
 * Hi,
 * So where am I supposed to go and vote on this?
 * This is seriously the worst feature ever created. I don’t understand how this
   is still a thing.
 *  [mhd311](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mhd311/)
 * (@mhd311)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-auto-save/#post-16041289)
 * me too the sME ISSUE I WANT DISABLE AUTOSAVE FROM PC TO PC IS…
 *  [Habib Mosavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/habibmosavi/)
 * (@habibmosavi)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-auto-save/#post-16366720)
 * Same here, I really don’t like how the auto-save feature works right now, but
   I do not agree with completely removing the feature because it helped me many
   times when my pc suddenly turned off or I mistakenly closed my browser, so I 
   recommend adding a “Discard” button beside the “Update” button or somewhere else
   that allows users to just discard the unwanted changes 🙂
 *  [Steve Monsen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devwax/)
 * (@devwax)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-auto-save/#post-16409509)
 * This is a WordPress feature that you can turn off with this hook:
   [https://jetpack.com/blog/wordpress-autosave/](https://jetpack.com/blog/wordpress-autosave/)
 *     ```wp-block-code
       add_action( 'admin_init', 'disable_autosave' ); 
       function disable_autosave() {
           wp_deregister_script( 'autosave' );
       }
       ```
   
 *  [Lord Loadalot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lordloadalot/)
 * (@lordloadalot)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-remove-auto-save/#post-16427350)
 * Why is this under “resolved”. Did I miss something here ? ( Except [@devwax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devwax/)‘
   s hint on WP-level. They where so proud [announcing](https://elementor.com/blog/autosave/)
   this in 2018 but they never gave us the remedy. Still feels like one of those
   car assistants or a new vice versa Photoshop feature … aaargh.

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