Why in the prototype I am unable to see the updated value of an instance, it still by default showing me original value that was declared in the main component?

Hi Priya, I’m facing a similar issue. Have you had any luck figuring this out?

Eg. When creating a button component with two variants, and relabelling the each of the variants in the design file, the relabelled button variants do not appear in the prototype view. This was all working previously, up until last week.

1. Updated variants of the component instance (button label) in the design file don’t appear in the prototype view
2. The updated button label only appears in the prototype view when the variant instance is selected and visible in the design file (in this case, the other variants still do not display correctly in the prototype—just the instance selected in the design file)
3. Figma loses all changes to the component instance and variant labelling when quit and reopened

Actions taken:

• Tested on multiple files (same issue)
• Created new files to test with very simple components and variants (same issue)
• Quit, deleted and reinstalled Figma (same issue—but lost all variant label updates)

I first contacted customer support 4 days ago but so far the issue has not been resolved. The issue is creating big workflow issues for current projects—really hoping someone has insights on resolving this!

Thank you 🙏

Hi Lynley! Thank you for responding, it feels better that I am not the only one facing this issue, I completely agree with you. I started facing this issue while declaring nested sidebar component in design system, in order to have nested sidebar I had to make nested dropdown component. I tried different ways for resolving such as

1. Made all the sub components from scratch and then made the new component
2. Made the new component without any sub component, still issue is same
3. Made a separate file, tried with basic simplified components, still the same issue

Even in this process, I discovered more Figma bugs, such as in prototype the transition between collapse and expanded sidebar is smooth at times but looks bad most of the time, the output is very unpredictable.

Yesterday, I have also raised this issue in Figma support, haven’t heard from them yet. I hope this issue gets resolved asap, because dropdown menu I have to use everywhere in our app. It’s very difficult to move forward without this fix.

Thank you for hearing me out!

Hello there! I wanted to step in and note that I saw you both have separate support tickets open at the moment, and that you have ongoing conversations going on regarding your respective prototype behaviors.

It would be best to continue those convos via email, since your instances are unique. I’d also encourage you to share the conclusions/solutions you both receive to share the knowledge 😊 I’m leaving this topic open so that you’ll be able to do that if you choose to!

Hey Priya,
Did you get any solution to the problem?