Sharing a prototype without having user required to sign in to Figma

Thats ridiculous. ITS INSANE. I was sitting with a test person for my bachelors evaluation and tried to send her the link. The exact same link with Figma/prototype at the beginning worked a month ago with my professor in a zoom call, now IT DOESNT. Ill need to manage to get an additional test person and the quantitative evaluation wont work at all now, because the only way to test it now is to view the prototype with my phone and film the process with another. Thats completely crazy, in the final week of my bachelors exam

Hello,

I’m encountering the same issue. There are three ways to share prototypes with clients: directly via the design editor, using the green Share button in presentation mode, or by copying the direct link from the flow in presentation mode. I tested all three methods in both Chrome and Safari using a private browser window after copying the links into a single document for comparison. Unfortunately, each link required me to sign in to view the prototypes. While they all lead to the same flow, the links are completely different. I’ve tried all the suggested solutions, but nothing has worked. This is incredibly frustrating for both my agency and our clients, who had access to the prototypes yesterday but now must create an account and sign in. I cannot use the “Anyone may access this prototype” feature due to the sensitive nature of the designs, as making them public would breach our contract. Please advise on a solution as soon as possible.

Thank you.

I also have been having the same issue. We also accidentally allowed a client to view the entire file as he had to “get approved access” which somehow led him in the file editor side in view mode. Would love Figma to please go back to the old sharing settings as this had a lot more control for users over sharing settings and was a lot more “client friendly” as we don’t want clients to have to sign up to view a prototype once and never use Figma again.

Make sure you share the link with Anyone can view access. It doesn’t require to signing up to view the file with this setting.

Figma Support, please understand that Figma account admins (especially in enterprises) are often management people who do not use Figma themselves. Meanwhile, UX Researchers absolutely NEED the ability to share a prototype with “Anyone with the Link” for testing purposes. With this permission turned off by default, it is often extremely difficult for us to get the attention of a busy manager in order to change that Admin permission. This restriction is making Figma, a usability design tool, unusable for usability testing. Please rethink and redesign your very complicated sharing and permission system.

FYI, the way I’ve been working around this is to require a password - once the password is entered, the user is not prompted to create a Figma account.

Still annoying, but better than requiring a signup.

Incorrect answer. Does not work.

THIS IS THE FIX!

After all of the BS answers on here. This is the bug. If you are logged into the browser version of Figma and you paste your copied link in the browser it will not take you directly to the prototype. For some stupid reason it will ask you to pick which account you want to view it from. This leads us all to believe that anyone trying to access the prototype will need a Figma account to view it. LOG OUT in browser and the view link works just fine. THANK YOU SO MUCH!. These support people on here are ridiculous. This should be the first and only answer on this page.

Also experiencing this issue. Is this because I am on a Business account? If so, I wish Figma made that more clear. I hope I don’t have to ask customers to register for Figma to see deliverables.

1. I went to my Prototype and hit Play.
2. From there, I copied the link and shared it with my customer.
    

I see this was a year ago. Do you know if that fix still applies? I tried it in my current Figma and it was a no go.