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Red alignment lines not showing in Figma Desktop App

  • September 13, 2024
  • 3 replies
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amoraq

Hello everyone. When I work with the Figma desktop app on Mac, the red alignment lines do not show. I don’t know why, because they only show in the Figma web app. Does anyone know how to solve this?

Thanks in advance!

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y_toku
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 2320 replies
  • September 18, 2024

Hi there,

Thanks for flagging. Since we cannot replicate this issue on our end, could you help us troubleshoot?

Is this happening only on your environment or on other team members too? If it is seen only on your environment, can you try force-quitting the Figma Desktop app and restarting it. If the issue persists, try clearing the cache. Please make sure you won’t have unsaved tasks if you clear the cache.

If it happens on others too, this could be a bug. Could you submit a bug report detailing the steps that led to this issue? You can do so by following the link: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041468234-Submit-a-bug-report

Please let me know if you have more questions!

Thanks,
Toku


amoraq
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  • 1 reply
  • September 18, 2024

hello @y_toku ! it worked as you told me (clearing the cache)
Thanks for you help!


paulguidowho
  • New Participant
  • 7 replies
  • March 30, 2025

I use Figma on the web and about three months ago the smart guides just stopped appearing. 
I assumed I hit a key stroke accidentally that turned them off but have not been able to turn them back off. 
Just to clarify the guides I’m talking about are the red lines that used to show up to let me know that an object was centered or lined up in some way with another object in the frame. They were super useful and time saving. I won’t tell you what I am having to do now to keep everything lined up appropriately but its not pretty. 
My Layout Grids are turned on and my frame is NOT an auto layout so its not one of those things. 
Help!


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