diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/GrafanaRules.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/GrafanaRules.tsx
index 54d9e176ed9..c8a8e4f0943 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/GrafanaRules.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/GrafanaRules.tsx
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ export const GrafanaRules: FC<Props> = ({ namespaces, expandAll }) => {
   const loading = prom.loading || ruler.loading;
   const hasResult = !!prom.result || !!ruler.result;
 
-  const wantsGroupedView = queryParams['view'] === 'grouped';
-  const namespacesFormat = wantsGroupedView ? namespaces : flattenGrafanaManagedRules(namespaces);
+  const wantsListView = queryParams['view'] === 'list';
+  const namespacesFormat = wantsListView ? flattenGrafanaManagedRules(namespaces) : namespaces;
 
   const groupsWithNamespaces = useCombinedGroupNamespace(namespacesFormat);
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ export const GrafanaRules: FC<Props> = ({ namespaces, expandAll }) => {
           key={`${namespace.name}-${group.name}`}
           namespace={namespace}
           expandAll={expandAll}
-          viewMode={wantsGroupedView ? 'grouped' : 'list'}
+          viewMode={wantsListView ? 'list' : 'grouped'}
         />
       ))}
       {hasResult && namespacesFormat?.length === 0 && <p>No rules found.</p>}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RulesFilter.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RulesFilter.tsx
index ba408a51ea8..1ec596341db 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RulesFilter.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RulesFilter.tsx
@@ -14,16 +14,16 @@ import { getFiltersFromUrlParams } from '../../utils/misc';
 import { alertStateToReadable } from '../../utils/rules';
 
 const ViewOptions: SelectableValue[] = [
-  {
-    icon: 'list-ul',
-    label: 'List',
-    value: 'list',
-  },
   {
     icon: 'folder',
     label: 'Grouped',
     value: 'grouped',
   },
+  {
+    icon: 'list-ul',
+    label: 'List',
+    value: 'list',
+  },
   {
     icon: 'heart-rate',
     label: 'State',