QuickSight Dashboard Filters Not Resetting to Default View even after Sign Out

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Hi Team ,

I have a QuickSight dashboard with multiple filters such as F1 with values as (a, b, c, d, e), F2 (f, g, h, i, j), and F3 (k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s),
all of them are set to “Select All” by default.

When I apply a filter on F1 (e.g., selecting only “a”) and then sign out of QuickSight, upon signing back in and accessing the same dashboard, I notice that F1 retains the previously selected value (“a”), while F2 and F3 are continued to return the default “All” selection since they were not configured with any specific values previously.

Ideally, I would expect all filters to reset to their default state (i.e., “All”) each time I reopen the dashboard, unless explicitly saved as a custom view. However, the filter F1 retains its previously selected value across sessions instead of resetting .

Only when I manually click the “Reset to original dashboard” option does the dashboard reflect the intended default filter settings.

Could someone please help me understand why this behavior is occurring and if there’s a way to ensure that all filters revert to their default selections automatically when reopening the dashboard?

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Hello @DeepikaChoda

I believe this is a default setting in the QuickSight console, and I don’t think there is a way to turn it off. In an embedded environment you can control State Persistence:

My recommendation as an easier workaround is to create a button in QuickSight by formatting a table visual to say “Reset Filters” that has a navigation action targeting the same sheet that returns all controls to ALL_VALUES or default. (They will need to be parameter controls for this work)

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Hello @duncan , Thank you for your input and getting back to me.
Is there any other way to accomplish this functionality without adding an additional reset button , since the dashboard already includes a ‘Reset to original dashboard’ option provided by QuickSight?

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Hey @DeepikaChoda

To my knowledge there is no console feature for this other than refreshing the whole console every time you open QuickSight or creating the button.

I will mark this topic as a feature request for the QuickSight team.