Often happens with whichever is the first Artboard.

Hi Egor,

This issue happens to me all the time.

Best way to reproduce is to set up multiple artboards (10+), make sure there is lots of content in them, a few images etc then try renaming.

The first one will revert back to the original name. I shared a video with Adobe as I was able to reproduce this twice today alone.

I was never able to stumble upon it or reproduce it intentionally :(
On one hand it makes me happy (because this would suck!), on the other hand I WISH to have it — because this would have helped me to push it further.

No matter what method I try: pasting each one or typing it anew, using Tab to go to the next one, renaming all at once (we can now select all artboards with Artboard Tool or in the panel, hit Enter to open Artboard Options and enter the common name and Ai will use it and add numbers, like we can do in Explorer/Finder with files)... nothing works, the names stick for me, with the panela closed, collapsed, reopened, file close, Ai relaunched...

Please try to reproduce it in the new file, give the EXACT steps (the video helps, even though it didn’t for me), and list all the specs you can. If the test file keeps behaving like this each time you try — share it (perhaps it’s something within it that makes the bug pop!)
Time to figure this out finally.

MacOS Sequoia 15.5 on an iMac M1
Illustrator 29.5.1

When I paste text into an artboard's name in the Artboard Panel, and press RETURN/ENTER, the name appears correctly in the Artboard Panel, but does not update on the actual artboard title on the main screen. Thinking it was ok because the panel displayed it correctly, I exported the artboards. All resulting files had "artboard 1, artboard 2, etc". I saved the file and reopened. All of the names were gone from the Artboard Panel.

Temporary workaround: If I paste text into the Artboard Panel and press RETURN, it won't update on the actual board, but as long as I double-click the name again in the panel, type anything manually, and press RETURN, it will update and export correctly.

When pasting into the artboard name in the top control panel, it works fine. It's only in the Artboards Panel. I have over 100 artboards in this file and the names are very long, so that's the most efficient place to enter them all.

This is reproducible. As long as I am pasting text into the name, it will not update elsewhere including exporting unless I go back into the name and edit it further.

I think it started happening within the last few months.

Yeah, I've just come to the realization that if it hasn't been fixed in 7 years, it's just never going to be fixed. After renaming all my artboards, I go back to my first artboard, delete a character, and retype it. Just part of my workflow now.

Still an issue in May 2025.

Reproducing is simple.

Make a file with a few artboards. Rename them all. Open the artboards tab again and the first one has reverted. Almost every time without fail.

Still an issue in May 2025.

Reproducing is simple.

Make a file with a few artboards. Rename them all. Open the artboards tab again and the first one has reverted. Almost every time without fail.

Still an issue! March 25, 2025 and its still happening!

Still an issue. Please fix.

Here we are 4.5 years since I found this reported and it's still a bug. 

Here's a breakdown of my workflow:
Name my artboards in the artboard palette, and when I'm ready, I export those artboards in Export for Screens. 

The bug presents itself as:
a) The artboard name in the Export for Screens is not what I named my artboard in the palette. It's an artboard name from before my edit—even if that edit was entered 20-30 minutes ago.

b) The name in Export for Screens is correct, but the exported asset still has the name before my edit.

It appears that when entering an artboard name in the palett, it only sticks the landing 50% off the time.

I'm also having this issue

I can confirm that as of 1/2/25, Illustrator v 29.1.0 still has this bug, and it's infuriating, especially when you have files with sometimes hundreds of artboards. I do branding and visual identity, and when I'm compiling all of the various final branding assets for my clients, I put them into one Illustrator file to organize them, and then export them out in their various file formats. After spending hours custom-naming artboards so that they export out with appropriate file naming, and *knowing* that I didn't miss any artboards, it's extremely frustrating, to see files named "Artboard 199" etc. in a long list of exported files with their correct naming.

Still an issue. Working in an industry that is critical for board names to be correct for image association outside of Illustrator. Names of boards continue to revert when double clicking on the board name and pasting. Beyond frustrating bug. Please address!

Having issues here too - come on Adobe... this is a really frustrating time-waster when working with hundreds of artboards that need unique names for exporting - please fix this bug!
Happens when renaming, then switching between open .ai files...

March 2024, Version 27.6.1 and it's still an issue. Please, fix it!

When I have labeled an artboard, and saved it, the first one almost always returns to the default name. In other words, if I have 11 artboards and I name them all according to project and what it is... I'll save it, but then the first artboard at the top will return to its original name: "Artboard 1". When I export the artboards, the label is wrong and I can't find it in the folder exported to. I have to go to the artboard again and change it to the correct name, save it again and re-export. It's happened for many years, on my work PC and my Mac at home. Same kind of labeling issues on both platforms. It's not a big deal, but you need to know so you can fix it.

this keeps happening, new computer, fresh install, latest version (27.6.1) in June 15 2023... not only some artboards revert to the original name, sometimes they revert to a previously changed name, it's like there's somekind of delay between the time I make the change and the time it gets "written" into the actual .ai file...

Here's a video showing this happen on 29 May 2023.
First artboard reverts back to previous name. This happens without fail every time!

This is a fresh install of Illustrator too, on MacOS Ventura 13.2.1

Steve, how do you 'rename all artboard at once'? You mean consecutively, one by one?
Can you reproduce this behaviour exactly, if you try to do it from from the scratch? If yes — please provide a video demo and the exact steps.

Still a problem and has been for a few years now. If you rename all your artboards at once, your first artboard will revert back to the original name when you go to export your file.

The past few years, my work around for this is rename all your artboards, then go back to the first artboard, click to rename it, delete any letter, then add it back on.