What happened to the "Can view prototypes only" permission?

Agreed! We are having issues where our clients are getting notified when we comment to each other in our designs and view our prototypes before presentations. We want to lock that down so they can only view the presentations.

I have the same issue, please fix this 🥲🥲

Hey everyone, this looks odd. I can’t reproduce it on my end 🤔
Please also make sure they are not invited to the main file to ensure they can only access the prototype.

If the issue still occurs, I’d like our support team to investigate further with a URL of your file so they can try to replicate directly: here
Be also sure to use your Figma email account, include a link to the file, and add support-share@figma.com as an Editor (this won’t impact your billing at all), and also share a quick video recording with the steps you have done, so we can better visualise it. Thanks!

So, are the above steps only work on paid plans?

Hey there! Sharing files and prototypes are available on any team or plan.

More information on the sharing options:

When I start the prototype and tap Share prototype, then the person that I’m sending the link to is able to click on “Open in editor” and see the entire project (when I don’t want him to). Can’t prototype and project be made separate?

Thanks for the videos, Celine! But after repeating the steps and upon clicking “Save” (view the prototype for anyone) I get the message that this is for payed plans only (see screenshots).

Thanks for the screenshot and apologize for any confusion!
Unfortunately, this feature – prototype-specific access permissions- is only available for paid plans.

To provide more context:

• If the access level for both the design file and prototype are the same, all plan tiers can share without issue.
• However, if the prototype’s access level is different from the file, then it requires professional plan at least.

To clarify, the permission state actually still exists, that’s how prototypes can be accessed separately from the file in design mode. However, we don’t show the “prototypes only” permission type anymore as an option.

It’s inferred based on where you share the resource:

• Sharing from file is file specific (prototype can inherit from this)
• Sharing from prototype is prototype specific (can be different from file on pro plan or higher paid plans)

Hope this helps!

The option to grant the right to leave comments or not, seems to have gone missing.

Sometimes you want to share prototypes with a larger audience without the risk of getting your stakeholder comments cluttered up with noise.