Auto layout makes contents absolutely positioned

I concur with this statement… It seems there is no ablity to have (Nested AL components)… are there any updates on a fix?

Hey,
Just adding that I also agree, this absolute position update is total garbage. Totally slows down my workflow.

P.s. everything else with Figma is ace!

I agree, this is incredibly annoying and wastes time.

Hello Figma and community, just adding another voice to the mix to agree that this behaviour is confusing.

I find that I can’t always recreate or redo what happens which means that I can’t figure out how the interface can help me ** …Recognize, Diagnose, and Recover from Errors**.

Sometimes elements also get rotated 90º in my experience and completely changes how the layout should work (horizontal v vertical).

I understand that the feature is required but some work needs to be done on 1. identifying that something different has happened and 2. recoverability so people can avoid the auto absolute position in the future.

Same is happening to me.
When placing a component within an autolayout frame, some layers WITHIN a component instance itself become absolute position!! This breaks the way the component is expected to look, and I cannot make it “not absolute”.

Figma can randomly override my component layout in the instance, but I can not override the problem Figma has created. It’s infuriating, because I have to detach components to just get designs done

Same keeps happening to me

This has annoyed me and wasted time since the change was made – auto layout shouldn’t try to guess the exception to the 'auto layout rule I might want to manually make! It should apply auto layout – if I selected a completely random jumble of elements it should stack them neatly even if that means completely changing what it looks like, since auto layout is a rule not a visual design tool. At the absolute most it should guess if I want that stack to be vertical or horizontal, but even just defaulting to vertical is better than trying to be too clever

In the case of making auto-position an automatic feature of auto layout, relying solely on ‘internal testing’ within Figma seems insufficient. For a change with this level of impact, extensive external testing should have been conducted.

What keeps happening to me is all my frames that are set to be fixed height and width change their setting to fill and I have to manually change it back editing all values again.

Expected behavior from auto layout with ANY element → elements keep their parameters and get aligned with auto layout default settings. As simple as that.

Guys, please, make your system less adaptable and automated and more straight forward. This is a design tool, not a mobile game, there is no need for automation that “makes life easier”. Many of us UX designers here and we all know that “Smart” things < Predictable things. Make your system consistent please.