Ag-grid-react version 27 community applyColumnState does not work for me

Question

I use onColumnResized={e => onSaveGridColumnState(e, 'active')} to save columns state in local storage like so:

const onSaveGridColumnState = (e, source: string): void => {
    localStorage.setItem('status-columns-' + source, JSON.stringify(gridRef.current.columnApi.getColumnState()));
  };

then on onFirstDataRendered :

  const onFirstDataRendered = (e: FirstDataRenderedEvent, source: string): void => {
    const cols = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('status-columns-' + source)); 
    if (cols) {       
      const s = gridRef.current.columnApi.applyColumnState({
        state: cols,
        applyOrder: true,
      });
    }
  };

In version 26 the user kept seeing the same columns width even after F5 on the browser. With 27 it does not remember the columns widths

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you!