Why can’t I paste an image directly into an image component in Figma anymore?

Hi everyone, stepping in for ​@Gayani_S with a quick update from our side: Our engineering team pushed a fix to production that should resolve this issue. ✅

💡 If you haven’t already, try giving the tab you’re working in a quick refresh → copy/paste functionality should now behave as expected.

Thanks again for your patience while we worked to get this resolved. Let us know how it goes, and if any questions remain.

I really hope this is a bug and not a “feature”. Hope it gets fixed soon, cause I hate it. I copy paste into frames so much.

Something I havnt seen others mention, is when I paste an image directly into figma from somewhere else, it puts in in a new frame, not in the frame I already have selected. I know selecting the thumbnail works, but I still have to paste the image in figma, copy the thumbnail from the new frame, then select the frame where I want it and paste there. 

A very frustrating issue was introduced here. This used to work so much better before.

I closed the Figma desktop app and reopened all my tabs as requested but the issue is still there.

I often start with a frame, apply an image to it, add rounded corners, outlines, shadow etc, duplicate it to then replace only frame fill with other images that I copy from the clipboard from the web. This flow doesn’t work anymore at all. Previously you could open the image fill pane, press command V and only the image would be replaced by the one in the clipboard. Does not work anymore. Now you need to paste the image into the canvas, hit copy style shortcut, click the new frame, hit paste style shortcut but that then overrides the rounded corners, outline etc. Such a simple timesaver ease-of-use action is now very frustrating.  

Hi ​@KelseyONeill and ​@Pieter_Beukman, thank you for taking the time to share your experiences! 

Our engineering team has already pushed a fix to production that should have resolved this, but since you’re still running into the issue, I’ve flagged your reports with them so we can dig in further. I’ll follow up here as soon as I hear back from the team.

Appreciate your patience in the meantime! 

Hi there. Any update on this ​@Gayani_S? I am still running into this workflow issue which makes it very very difficult to quickly input real images into existing UI frames. 

This broke again today.

It also does not work for our team.

I have an image in clipboard, copied from the web and pasting it into the frame (in the instance of card component) does nothing… 

I have to paste it somewhere on the canvas, then use the hack from above (click on the left side of image thumbnail → Cmd-C → select image in the instance → left side of the thumbnail → Cmd-V) and it is quite infuriating 😡

We’ve found a workaround which is quite absurd…

You can:
click on the image thumbnail → Upload from computer → Cancel → Cmd-V → voilà! 🤣
 

Absolutely crazy that this is broken again, and is such a key workflow for so many of us

Don’t think they have because it’s not working.