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Andrii Bozhenko
Andrii Bozhenko
New Member
June 6, 2025
Question

Figma Make works slow after many iterations.

  • June 6, 2025
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Very low performance speed in Figma Make when the thread reaches large sizes (currently 230+ iterations). All actions in the chat area occur with a significant delay (typing, scrolling, etc.), making it impossible to work.

However, the prototype itself works well within FM.

Has anyone encountered this? What could be the cause? Could it be related to the power of the laptop?

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    Tom38
    Tom38
    New Participant
    August 29, 2025

    I have a solution to clone the entire project into a new Figma Make file - it’s the history that slows everything down. A colleague has created a guide for - this does work if you follow the instructions exactly. As a note to Figma - an option to clone a file without the conversation history would be very much appreciated.

     

    The guide includes a series of prompts, and some manual copy-pasting, that'll help us migrate existing Make files into a new one while preserving file structure and code. I've tested it 5-6 times and each of those times it was successful!

     

    The guide covers the following:

    • Exporting project file structure
    • Creating clean project blueprints
    • Automated file/folder creation
    • Code transfer process
    • Context briefing for Figma Make

    📑 Written guide link: Figma Make Project Migration Guide

     

    Hopefully this helps someone until we have an official solution.

    I am about 70 versions in and Editor started to be laggy.
    Your workaround helped but once I started to fix errors that occured it started to be laggy again. So it doesnt seem its history slowing down but rather some function in the code. I will keep investigating. 
     

    Gayani_S
    Figmate
    Gayani_S
    Community Support
    September 5, 2025

    Hey everyone, thank you for sharing your experiences here, we’ve been listening closely.

     

    The team has now rolled out performance improvements aimed specifically at reducing lag in files with large chat histories. In many cases, this should bring the experience back to a much more usable state. Please give your file a refresh and try it out.

    If you’re still running into problems, we’d really appreciate it if you could share your feedback in this thread.

     

    Thanks again for your patience! 

      MySmile
      MySmile
      September 5, 2025

      Still didnt find a proper solution for me :(

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      Tom38
      Tom38
      New Participant
      September 5, 2025

      Hey everyone, thank you for sharing your experiences here, we’ve been listening closely.

       

      The team has now rolled out performance improvements aimed specifically at reducing lag in files with large chat histories. In many cases, this should bring the experience back to a much more usable state. Please give your file a refresh and try it out.

      If you’re still running into problems, we’d really appreciate it if you could share your feedback in this thread.

       

      Thanks again for your patience! 

      Hello Gayani, very nice to read that! I tested it, first prompt was nice and quick but then it started to lag again. I have to close and open the file again to continue work. First but simple prompt goes through but once I start asking more complex things it keeps lagging and thinking and working for uncommonly long time. 

      Wendy Chen
      Wendy Chen
      New Member
      September 5, 2025

       (currently 230+ iterations).

      Andrii, how can we know how many iterations have we done? Manually check?

      Tom38
      Tom38
      New Participant
      September 5, 2025

      (looks better now?!)

      Shane_Jensen
      Shane_Jensen
      New Member
      September 23, 2025

      Hey everyone, thank you for sharing your experiences here, we’ve been listening closely.

       

      The team has now rolled out performance improvements aimed specifically at reducing lag in files with large chat histories. In many cases, this should bring the experience back to a much more usable state. Please give your file a refresh and try it out.

      If you’re still running into problems, we’d really appreciate it if you could share your feedback in this thread.

       

      Thanks again for your patience! 

      It Works!

      I wish I saw this 18 days ago (I didn’t receive a notification). Thank you for fixing this.

      janttt
      New Member
      December 3, 2025

      I’m on version 377 now and it’s been stuck on the “reasoning” stage for an hour. I can’t pause it. I even tried duplicating the file, but the new one is also stuck on reasoning with the same prompt. Any idea how to fix this?

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