Styles applied to text layers or component instances get detached at random

@Josh My team just experienced this issue… components with text styles are detached. How do we resolve it?

I am pretty sure this one is happening again. I can’t figure out what actions are causing it, but all my text styles are getting detached over and over again and it’s very frustrating. The text styles are not local, they’re coming from a published library.

Been having the same issue, very annoying. No idea what triggers it, but what has helped me to quickly match styles again is the plugin called Design Lint, you’ll be able to select all layers with missing styles and match them again all at once.

Thank you for this suggestion! I hope the problem gets fixed.

Still problematic! This makes entire design systems unusable!! No matter if it’s library’ed or local.

Can someone from Figma please actually consider this a priority problem?

Just to illustrate concern since 2021 ~

I have the same problem within the variants.

I was wondering if this was me being sloppy or a Figma issue.
I’m also encountering this even after the fix was deployed. Seems it’s still a running issue.

This has been an issue for quite some time. Is @Figma looking into this? This problem is further aggravated for our developers who normally use the style name to build the text components in code. They keep coming back to us asking what is the text style.

@Figma I don’t want any new features until this is fixed. Please prioritize stability over everything else.

Hey All,

The team is still tracking this issue, but there’s no exact timeline for a fix.

For now, the two workarounds they suggest are:

• Manually swapping the dangling/unlinked instance to another instance of the component
• Going back into version history, finding a version of the file where the instance is not dangling, restoring that version as a new file, and then copying and pasting the frame with those instances back into the working file

I’ve been having this issue as well. Lots of occurrences lately, not just on variants but also regular frames. I’ve just had almost a whole page get detached – very frustrating.

@dvaliao if there’s any way to push this further up the priority I’m sure many people would appreciate it.