I can no longer undock the viewport in Studio

I’ve put in another bug report about 2nd monitor users having issues and included more details about it.

The post is here: Studio windows on 2nd screen saving in different position off edge of screen

Another post I found with window issues:

same here I can’t it’s quite annoying

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This was never an issue on windows 10, do i really have to downgade?

It’s a bandaid to prevent issues when undocking the viewport, likely you upgraded just before this was rolled out, so downgrading won’t fix anything.

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For some reason i docked my viewport after months, and now i can’t get it to my second screen anymore, and now i need to share it with my scripts or drag them every time i open a new one. Sigh

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This was actually an intentional band-aid fix meant to temporarily fix some issues when undocking the viewport, as I said in my reply just above yours:


That is what I was intending to convey using the word “band-aid” :sweat_smile: , as in, temporary.

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This feature really needs to be given more attention to enable again. I made the same mistake of docking the viewport without knowing about this update and it hinders the speed at which I can navigate studio and put together UI. While I did find a work around for full screening studio on another screen (Link), it almost requires you to have a second monitor and the fullscreen view isn’t interactable. Furthermore, to interact with this fullscreen and any UI on it, you have to use scrolling bars to navigate the view of the screen from studio.


There is the fullscreen option “Fit to Window”, but that screen still ends up being smaller than a full-screen undocked viewport.

I’ve also seen people propose minimizing all widgets to get a full screen view. However, this doesn’t fully achieve what an undocked fullscreen viewport could before either.


It does get slightly close, but there is still a command bar at the bottom and the ribbon at the top. The main reason this process isn’t a good solution is because it requires you to minimize all widgets (as well as the large part of the ribbon) and then re-enable them afterwards. It gets very tedious to keep minimizing and maximizing each widget when you need to test.

I understand that it needed to be disabled to get rid of the vast amount of random bugs associated with it, but I think that it should be turned into a toggleable setting that is enabled by default. This would allow for the select few who actually used this trick to disable the lock and for people with the various viewport bugs out there to keep their viewport locked.

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Fortunately, I believe it’s not permanent so I’ll just wait for them to fix it.

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honestly agreed, this is just horrible that it’s been this long and no proper patch has been made to the bugs (whatever they were, as I never had any issues before hand).
Generative AI is cool and all, but not the most practical use of time I would say.

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Hey guys. I just wanted to update everyone who still might not have a solution to this. I recently just became aware of the RobloxStudioModManager which lets you edit FFlags for roblox studio. There is actually a flag that you can disable to allow movement for the viewport again.

Look up this flag name in the mod manager and override it to false:

Once you launch studio with the mod manager you should be able to move the previously locked viewport.

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I have now tried this and it worked great! I had no idea this existed.

Roblox really should have an option for this somewhere in the settings. I really don’t like needing to use a third-party program to regain a removed feature. I understand the risk and would like to use the feature anyway.

I’m marking your post as the solution until Roblox develops an official one. (like that’ll ever happen though)

This is not a solution to the bug! Do not mark a hacky workaround as a solution. You will trigger your bug report to get closed. Do not misuse this feature.

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You can now undock the 3D View if you turn on the Updated Docking System beta feature. You can learn more about this beta feature at the following link:
Docking Updates [Studio Beta] - Updates / Announcements - Developer Forum | Roblox

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