Admin panel column user settings lost on page refresh

Describe the Bug

Viewing a collection in the admin panel you can select the columns you want to see in the collections table view. The bug occurs when you change the visibility settings, refresh the browser and then change the current page of the table pagination.

So you need of course more items then one page holds so you get the pagination ui. And you need to refresh the browser before switch the page. Otherwise this error does not occur.

I think it might have something to do with the query param added to the url when you change column settings.

Link to the code that reproduces this issue

https://github.com/matulkum/payload-issue-col-settings-loss

Reproduction Steps

• Got to the users collection admin view (eg localhost:3000/admin/collections/users).
• make sure pagination is set to 5 items per page so you get at least 2 pages.
• Change visible columns (eg. remove name, createdAt columns and add id column instead.
• refresh browser page.
• select the second page in the pagination
• observe how the previous column visibility settings are restored and your last setting is lost.

Which area(s) are affected?

area: ui

Environment Info

Binaries:
  Node: 26.5.0
  npm: 11.17.0
  Yarn: N/A
  pnpm: 11.13.1
Relevant Packages:
  payload: 3.88.0
  next: 16.3.0
  @payloadcms/db-sqlite: 3.88.0
  @payloadcms/drizzle: 3.88.0
  @payloadcms/graphql: 3.88.0
  @payloadcms/next/utilities: 3.88.0
  @payloadcms/richtext-lexical: 3.88.0
  @payloadcms/translations: 3.88.0
  @payloadcms/ui/shared: 3.88.0
  react: 19.2.6
  react-dom: 19.2.6                                                                                 Operating System:                                                                                     Platform: darwin
  Arch: arm64                                                                                         Version: Darwin Kernel Version 25.6.0: Sat Jul 11 15:26:21 PDT 2026; root:xnu-12377.161.13~4/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000
  Available memory (MB): 32768                                                                        Available CPU cores: 10

Start with the linked reproduction and follow the admin collection table's column-visibility and pagination behavior around the URL query parameters. Confirm the settings are retained after a refresh and subsequent page change, then run the relevant admin UI checks or reproduction steps to verify the fix.