Hey everyone — really appreciate you all taking the time to weigh in with your experiences in this thread. 🙏🏻
From what I’m seeing here, it sounds like the common issue is that changing the size of a button causes the swapped icon instance to reset to its original state. I did some testing and this appears to be tied to a known limitation: When an icon is swapped to a different size, Figma Design treats it as a different variant, and overrides tied to one variant don’t always carry over to another.
One solution that’s helped in similar cases is to build a single icon variant property across all sizes. This allows Figma Design to better preserve instance swaps when size changes occur, since it can stay within the same variant structure. For a refresher on this, have a look at this Figma Learn article: Create and use variants → Variant properties and values.
I realize this may not be the resolution you were hoping for, but I hope it helps acknowledge and clarify a bit more on the “why” behind the behavior. If you’re still running into this and want a deeper look, our Product Support team would be happy to take a look into specifics. When reaching out, it’s helpful to include:
- the link to this Forum thread for context
- a full-size screen recording of the issue (if possible)
- a link to the affected file
- make sure support-share@figma.com has edit access.
Let me know how it’s going — and rest assured, we're sharing your feedback with our product and engineering teams to help guide future improvements. If you have any follow-up questions, want to add more detail, or if I’ve misunderstood anything you’re describing, don’t hesitate to let me know — I’m happy to keep digging. 💯
