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laramacrini
New Member
March 31, 2025
Question

Fixed: Figma Slides show Smart Animate transition only in Presenter View and not in Audience View

  • March 31, 2025
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Hello everyone, I’m having some issues with Figma Slides when trying to present both in presenter and audience view. In particular, the “smart animate” slides transition doesn’t work in the audience view but seems to work fine in the presenter view. I already tried to restart the presentation, open it in the app and on different browsers, I just can’t find a way to make it work. It’s driving me crazy, I’d 100% prefer to not view the smart animations in the presenter view rather than in the audience view.
Do you have suggestions for solving this? It’s for my graduation presentation, I need to use 2 screens, one external for the audience view and my macbook screen for reading the notes in the presenter view
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Guerilla Radness
New Member
April 1, 2025

I have the EXACT same problem. It worked 4 days ago and then one day just stopped. Smart animate works in presenter window but does not in audience window. Nothing has changed, literally overnight will not work. The challenge now is either give up animations or your presenter notes. Please help Figma.

Kim_Nguyen
New Member
April 1, 2025

I also faced with this issue today! When I presenting the slides, I notice slide transition worked only in Presenter view, not relfect on Audience view >.<” this made me so w desperated as i wanted to showcase the interaction and smooth transition. Please fix it asap

Jasonallthetime
New Member
April 2, 2025

Same issue

New Member
April 2, 2025

Has anyone resolved this issue yet? Is this a new bug from an update? 

laramacrini
New Member
April 2, 2025

Has anyone resolved this issue yet? Is this a new bug from an update? 

Unfortunately no, I contacted Figma support and they said they are working on it but it seemed more like a generic answer honestly. It's a shame because I need it for tomorrow and I don't think it will be resolved within that time 😕 Idk if it’s a new bug since I never used it before, but another user wrote that it happened overnight in their case..

Giorgito
New Member
April 2, 2025

Same issue here, really annoying problem tbh...

djv
Figmate
Community Support
April 2, 2025

Hey All, thank you for your patience and understanding! 

This is a confirmed bug that our Slides team is already proactively investigating and trying to fix. We’ll provide an update as they try to work towards a solution as soon as we can. 

Guerilla Radness
New Member
April 3, 2025

Hey All, thank you for your patience and understanding! 

This is a confirmed bug that our Slides team is already proactively investigating and trying to fix. We’ll provide an update as they try to work towards a solution as soon as we can. 

🙌!!!

 

YES, thank you! Hope soon 🤞

mamaria024
New Participant
April 3, 2025

Can you provide an ETA on the fix??? I have a critical presentation that depends on this on Monday - I need plan B if this is not fixed! what do people recommend? Sharing the presenter view (without the script) and exporting the script? I’m kinda freaking out. It’s 125 slides! 😭😫
 

Frankly this is unacceptable for such a key functionality on a product like Figma! 

New Member
April 3, 2025

Can you provide an ETA on the fix??? I have a critical presentation that depends on this on Monday - I need plan B if this is not fixed! what do people recommend? Sharing the presenter view (without the script) and exporting the script? I’m kinda freaking out. It’s 125 slides! 😭😫
 

Frankly this is unacceptable for such a key functionality on a product like Figma! 

Same boat, working on this deck for over 3 weeks, over 100 slides. Was working fine and then one day just stopped. My back-up plan is to give up my presenter notes and just hope that my practice was enough but I know I will forget key details. Really hoping for this bug fix sooner than later.