Fillable forms locked before able to edit

I am creating several fillable forms and the first few went great. When I am finished, I save them so that users will be able to save their data entry if they would like. After making the first few, the forms are now automatically going into the final lock mode. This happens when I select the option to turn my .pdf into a form. The purple bar comes across the top that says "please fill in this form...." and I am not able to work with it. Any suggestions to get these to save the right way again so I can work with them?

This has been fixed in 2.2.
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