In this paper, we propose and study a conjecture that symplectic automorphisms of a $K3$ surface $X$ act trivially on the indecomposable part $\mathrm{ CH}^2(X,1)_{ \mathrm{ ind}}\otimes \mathbb{ Q}$ of Bloch's higher Chow group. This is a higher Chow analogue of Huybrechts' conjecture on the symplectic action on $0$-cycles. We give several partial results verifying our conjecture, some conditional and some unconditional. Our unconditional results include the full proof for Kummer surfaces of product type.
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