# Save user text input in text input

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-user-text-input-in-text-input/600893>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [June 7, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-user-text-input-in-text-input/600893 "2020-06-07T22:51:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![shella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@shella](https://community.thunkable.com/u/shella)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-user-text-input-in-text-input/600893/1 "2020-06-07T22:51:59Z")

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Hello!

I was hoping if anyone out here on the Thunkable community could help me out with my app.

I’m not sure how to save the user text input so when the user comes back on the screen their text input is saved.

Please help!

Thanks,  
Shella

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**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 6:24am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-user-text-input-in-text-input/600893/2 "2020-06-08T06:24:06Z")

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Hello!

I think that your navigation on screens is made so that when you click the Back button, you do not go back to the previous screen, but create a new screen, which, of course, will not have what the user entered in the input field on the other screen.

There are several ways to solve this problem:

1. Use the navigation component
2. Save the entered data in the app variable and restore the entered data from this app variable in the input field on a new screen

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**Author:** ![shella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@shella](https://community.thunkable.com/u/shella)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-user-text-input-in-text-input/600893/3 "2020-06-08T21:14:58Z")

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Hello!

Thanks for the reply.  
I think the second option would suit my app the best.

How do you do this though?

Thanks,  
Shella

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**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 7:09am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-user-text-input-in-text-input/600893/4 "2020-06-09T07:09:03Z")

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Hello,

Please feel free to watch the documentation and channel

[https://docs.thunkable.com/variables](https://docs.thunkable.com/variables)

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**Author:** ![shella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@shella](https://community.thunkable.com/u/shella)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-user-text-input-in-text-input/600893/5 "2020-06-10T07:38:13Z")

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Hello actech!

Thank you so much, this really helped. 😀

Thanks,  
Shella

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:27am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/save-user-text-input-in-text-input/600893/6 "2024-11-08T11:27:27Z")

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