Following this as I’m experiencing the same issue, except it has stopped working for me and doesn’t load.
Can also confirm same issue.
Yes, this is a huge time suck as I have tried restarting Figma, my computer, disconnecting and reconnecting VPN, SSO, Logon, etc…
Same here! Happens remotely (some files are fine, some long).
I am having the same issue with the issue of the instances not loading at all…
Hi! Exactly the same issue for me too!
Yes, same issue here too.
I just closed Figma, and re-opened. Solved issue and able to load swap instance panel without delay.
same issue. solved this by using figma in the browser.
Reopening the Figma desktop does not work.
seems Figma desktop has an unstable connection?
Same issue here! Loads indefinitely even on local components
Hi everyone, this started suddenly for me and I can’t get the instance list to load no matter what I do on desktop app or the browser. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi so I finally found a way around this by trial and error, I detached a copy of any component that has a swap instance property for a nested component. Then I tried loading the instance list for the component nested within the component we just detached and it worked. After that, the issue was resolved for nested components without the need to detach anything. Seems like the issue was to just get it to load once.
Thanks @Hanan for the interesting discovery. Hopefully, it will help Figma find and fix the issue.
@Hiroko , I’ve also experienced just closing Figma Desktop and opening it again solves the issue for a day or two…
Can this be investigated officially please? Im experiencing this issue quite frequently.
I have same issue. Is there any way to handle this problem?
Thank you this also worked for me, can we flag this as a fix?
It is definitely a regression bug. For me it started to occur when file size of number of components wasn’t increased.
And suggested “solution” is not feasible if you have 10s of components. And I don’t understand what is suggested there.
Hey @RonMan ,
Thanks for flagging this, and sorry to hear you are having issue for loading your swap instance panel!
If it only happens on desktop app, please follow the steps in this Help Center article: here
As this thread was from 2022, and it looks like the workaround here was to force-quit and start Figma again. If you are still having issues with the performance, I’d also recommend you to reach out directly to the support team with a copy of your file so the team can try to replicate: here
Be sure to use your Figma email account, share the link of your file and please ddd support-share@figma.com as an Editor to a file where you’re seeing this slow loading (this won’t affect your billing at all) so the team can make a test edit on to see if we can reproduce this on our side and take a closer look.
(If there are specific actions we should check, I’d appreciate if you can also make a video showing these so we can be sure we check the right actions (please add it in the support form). In the video it’s helpful for us to see the whole window, with the Properties and Layers Panel in view and relevant layers expanded, and for you to select any Frames you’re having trouble with, so we can check any relevant settings.) Thank you!
