How to save and persist edits in v0 design mode

[romelpinilla (Romel)]

Hi @jayhilwig,

I had not worked in v0 for a while, and when I came back I ran into exactly the same issue. I actually just created a new post about it here:

New Design Mode: Why do simple edits now require AI credits?

In the previous Design Mode, I could make small changes—such as editing text—and save them directly without sending anything to the chat. The Save button would create a new version of the project without triggering an AI generation or consuming credits. [design-save] With the new Design Mode, I can no longer save these small edits directly. Even changing a single heading requires me to click Apply, which sends the change to the chat and consumes credits. On the v0 Max model, a simple change t…

This new experience feels quite cumbersome. What makes it more confusing is that, when Design Mode was introduced, it was presented as a way to make quick UI changes without editing code or spending credits:

Introducing Design Mode on v0

We’ve added Design Mode to v0, so you can now make quick changes to your UI without editing code or spending any credits This currently only supports Tailwind based UIs and has full knowledge of shadcn/ui so it will play well with your existing design system Click this new tab in your v0 project to get started, or check out the video in the launch tweet below [image]

That functionality does not seem to have lasted very long. Now even a minor manual change has to be sent through the chat and can consume credits.

Have you found out anything else about this? Do you know whether this was an intentional change related to costs, or whether there is still a way to use the previous workflow or switch back to it?