Hi! During the opening keynote at Schema 2025 (on October 28), the Figma team announced a new left navbar as part of the updated UI, mentioning it would start rolling out the following week.
It’s been a few weeks since then, and I’ve already received an app update, but I still don’t see that new sidebar.
Is the rollout still in progress, or is there something I need to do to enable it? Thanks!
Best answer by Celine_
Hi @Iain M Norman, thanks for checking in.
I totally get how that can be confusing when others on your team have it and you don’t.
We're slowly rolling out the new left navigation bar to users in Figma Design. We don’t have a timeline to share right now, but we’ll update this thread as soon as we have more to share. Thanks for your understanding!
Hi! I don’t have it too at the moment. Still waiting...
Hi everyone, thanks for your interest in the Left Nav Bar in Figma!
We’re slowly rolling out the new navigation bar to users in Figma. Thanks for your patience!
Is it still rolling out
Hi @Iain M Norman, thanks for checking in.
I totally get how that can be confusing when others on your team have it and you don’t.
We're slowly rolling out the new left navigation bar to users in Figma Design. We don’t have a timeline to share right now, but we’ll update this thread as soon as we have more to share. Thanks for your understanding!
Totally understandable
I still don’t have the sidebar, although it rolled out to my teammates about six weeks ago.
It feels like Figma is becoming slower and more unstable as it shifts toward AI coding and vector design features instead of focusing on UI and design system workflows.
Any update on the left sidebar? It’s been three months and it still hasn’t been rolled out. When will there be an estimated timeline for when it will be available to all users?
It was billed as Jan update IIRC. Clearly it’s taking longer.
I have it now on two old accounts from previous employers, but not my current account.
It’ll come in time I’m sure. Everyone else in the team got it back in Jan. Mine’s the newest account. Wonder if my lack of usage on this new account puts me to the back of the queue?
But I have had the new Make embed feature already.
Who knows...
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