Hi all,

I’m running into an issue with Smart Animate that seems to be a recent regression. I’ve used Smart Animate successfully across multiple components in my file, and everything was working fine in Present mode until this past week.

Now, some animations that used to work perfectly are either:

• Not playing at all, or

• Playing incorrectly (e.g. jumpy, incomplete, or skipping interpolation)

Here’s what I’ve found through troubleshooting:

• The animations still work when I isolate the animated component and test it on its own.

• They break only when nested inside more complex parent components (which contain other nested instances).

• Detaching the parent instance or simplifying the nesting restores the expected animation behaviour.

• Clearing Figma’s cache and restarting the app had no effect.

• I haven’t changed anything in the component structure that would explain this — it genuinely seems to have broken out of the blue.

This leads me to suspect either:

• A recent Figma update changed how Smart Animate behaves in nested instances, or

• There’s now a stricter limit on how animation properties propagate through component boundaries.

Has anyone else run into this recently? Any tips, workarounds, or confirmation that this is a known issue would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks!