Forward & Back navigation disappeared (again)

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Forward and Back navigation arrows have again disappeared from the titlebar. Previous instructions on how to fix (from Feb 2025) no longer work.

Steps to Reproduce

Open the IDE, open a couple files

Expected Behavior

↔ forward and back navigation arrows appear in titlebar

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.3.41 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 2ca326e0d1ce10956aea33d54c0e2d8c13c58a30
Date: 2026-01-16T19:14:00.150Z (4 days ago)
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 21.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue in Cursor v2.3, and the team is already working on a fix.

Try these workarounds:

  1. Switch to Editor view, press Cmd + E
  2. Make sure Command Center is enabled:
    • Open settings with Cmd + ,
    • Search for “Command Center”
    • Turn it on
  3. In the Window menu, check that Navigation Controls are enabled, it should be checked

If everything is enabled but the buttons still don’t show up, it’s most likely related to panel layout. The bug happens when the Agent panel is on the right. As a temporary fix, move the Agent panel to the left and the buttons should appear.

Details and discussion here: Cursor 2.3: Command Center no longer appears in the top bar, preventing forward/back navigation buttons (regression from 2.2)

Let me know if this helped.

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