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I'm experiencing an issue with the Figma MCP server where annotations are not being recognized by Figma AI. I believe this is related to how annotations are handled within component instances and nested structures. Since our design system follows an atomic design approach and composes components using other components, annotations placed within inner components are not visible to the MCP server. The annotations appear to be hidden when they exist inside component instances, as Figma doesn't expose nested instance annotations unless working with the original master component directly.Please advise if there are plans to enhance the MCP server's ability to access nested component annotations, or if there are recommended ways to add annotations in atomic design systems to ensure they work well with the MCP server.

Hi Figma Support Team, I by mistake deleted a file and then also “permanently deleted” it from trash. It’s extremely unfortunate as it was my mistake completely but it had my years of work and specially in past 2 months I did a lot in the file. I really need your help in recovering it from your servers please. I already raised a case on https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/1638104 and am waiting for a feedback. Case ID: #1638104 File Information File Name: Ozelu DevelopmentDate & Time Deleted: 12th December 2025 around 1:20am Gulf Standard Time URL Links to the File: Below are the URL links I am getting from my browser history and the file I

Hi everyone, I recently pushed an update to my plugin to fix an issue, but the update hasn’t propagated to all users yet (including one of my own Figma accounts). For example, it works correctly on one account but not on another. I also noticed that it works in the browser version of Figma, but not in the Figma desktop app.How should I handle this? A number of my users are experiencing the same issue, and I’d like to understand the best way to resolve or mitigate it.

Liquid glass effects isn’t working as they should be. When on Present Mode, if you have liquid glass elements and if you have added smart animate transitions liquid glass element turns black for a couple second when you move to next frame and turns back on to normal appearance.Please devs, fix this problemThanks in advance!Here you can see how it looks. 

Hi everyone! I’ve been using Figma for a while and I just realised there’s this new quick toolbar that appeared out of nowhere (the one above the toolbar). Before I can hold Ctrl + double click on an image to rescale it but now with this new quick toolbar it enters crop mode which doesn’t really work for me. Please if there is a way to hide it or at least revert it in case I accidentally hit something? Thanks a lot! 

Sorry if this has been asked and answered but I’m losing my mind at the zoom to selection feature. Any time I left click on an element in my figma page it zooms in making that element the only thing I can see. I’m not using the shortcut and I don’t see anywhere to turn this off in the settings. Is it hardcoded into figma that anytime you click on something the page is forced to full zoom in or am I just bad at figma? 

I’ve been working on a rather simple Figma Make project, but each time I try to update the project, the preview pane freezes and doesn’t play the prototype. I have to close the file and reopen it every time I make an update. The prototype seems to be updating (or so it seems) but it doesnt work unless I reopen the file.Why would this be happening? Am I doing something wrong? 

The latest prompt generated Figma Make websites I’ve tried have built designs that lack necessary padding and come about as very broken looking. This is with the default LLM (likely Claude) and the beta with ChatGPT that can be enabled. 

I am pushing updates from my design system and when updating the instances in external files I am not seeing changes. For context, I had some cards with an outline in my design system, I have now removed these outlines and updated various times in the other file and still I am not seeing the outlines disappear. I have even tried the ‘repair component connections’ command I have seen in other posts and that has not worked, even though it said it repaired various connections. After pushing another update after this was done the outlines are still on the cards. What is the point in the design system if I can’t make changes at the source? Now I have to remove the outlines from each individual card in my other file, this is very frustrating. 

Whenever I want to proofread text, I have to copy it into a browser or a Grammarly editor, fix it, then paste it back. This is especially painful when working on multiple frames or variants with repeated copy.This back-and-forth slows down the entire product design process.Direct Grammarly support inside Figma would make writing cleaner and faster.

Hello!I am trying to actuivate my university student account, but it is getting failed. I selected my istitution from the list, registered with student email. uploaded enrollment certificate. But still it is getting failed.Would really appreciate your help!Regards,Mik

My personal Figma account is free and I'm using it. I need to migrate some projects from my personal Figma to a private, paid Figma account. However, when I copy and paste the free project into my paid project, Figma shows an error: "an invalid image or thumbnail was removed."The email address for the paid project is different. However, I also tested it with the free version using the other email address, and it still gives the same error. I don't know how to solve it; I've tried to understand it, but I need help. What should I do? 90% of the project consists of images, covers, and the like.

how to export your projects from lunacy to figma? copy-paste doesn’t work

I don't know if I'm just being stupid but every time I try and type in a text box I've just. made I can't because the keys card tools activate and its making it impossible to do my project, why are keyboard tools not optional it seems to me that there are many others sharing the frustrations I have and I think sigma need to look into improving the service instead of dismissing its customers. does anyone have any tips on how I can actually type in my text boxes, I have dine what goodle has said and it hasn't worked and I'm at a loss. 

Using Smart Animation on a shape with rounded corners and outline, i get a render glitch, whenever i disable the outline the glitch disperses, i have seen more post about this even very old ones, i wonder when such an essential bug will be fixed? :( 

There is a rather frustrating thing happening with nested instances and makes the use of components rather useless.When I apply values to a component instance which uses a nested instance of another component (see image to understand matrioska structure), and I change variant (in the example provided I change the item-block size inside list-item) the value in the final instance resets even if the name of the layers and the structure are the same.So Imagine now the final instance (card-with-content instance) used across multiple UIs and I decide to change the variant, I have to edit the overridden labels and icons everywhere because they will be reset. Image 1 - Overridden value in last instance 

I had recently applied through my student id. My request was verified by Sheer Id. However, I haven’t received any mail from Figma Team on how to set-up my account and avail the benefits of student id. Does anyone have any idea about how much time is it going to take?

Figma Make are not using my library components attached. It only picked “generic” ones. Both with “Attach design” and using a full design system library file.

I'm using an educational account, and I'm trying to add a library to my Makefile, but it's not working. I published the library and added it to the same project as the Makefile I'm working on, but it's not working. please help me!!! 

Hello,We would like to report an inconsistent behavior affecting icons that use size variables in Figma.Issue description:When importing icons from our library into other Figma files, some icons unexpectedly change size. The icon visually resizes without any clear reason when pasting, instancing, or updating the library.What’s particularly strange is that this behavior only happens in certain files, while the same icons work correctly in others.Context of our setup:We have a main Figma file where all our icons are centralized.In that file, each icon component is assigned size variables, and the actual size is defined through modes that represent different scale tiers (e.g., small, medium, large).In theory, when consuming these icons in other files, their size should remain stable according to the selected mode.What we have already ch

figma.createConnector has always been limited to FigJam.A few years ago, I wrote a workaround plugin that allowed users to quickly clone and relink existing FigJam connectors in Figma.However, it recently started throwing this error:Error: in clone: Cloning CONNECTOR nodes is not supported in the current editorI’m wondering if Figma has changed and restricted their API. Since there’s no last updated date on the API page, I’m not entirely sure. It also seems like there may no longer be any viable workaround :(

I only wanted to use FigJam, and I thought upgrading to Pro would apply just to my own account. Instead, I’m now being told I have to pay €192 before I can downgrade again. This is very frustrating, and the invoice calculations are not clearly explained.I hope Figma improves this process, because transparency and clear communication are essential for a user-friendly subscription service. Could someone please help me understand these charges and fix this issue? Transparent and clear communication is important, and I hope Figma can assist me with this.

Hi. I am a student, and want to use paid features for free at home. In case this is in the wrong area, you can say it is in the wrong category.

Hello, I am trying to run through the MCP OAuth protocol to register a client on the Figma remote MCP server, running into an issue when calling the registration endpoint.After discovering the registration endpoint via the /.well_known/oauth-authorization-server call, I call the registration endpoint via:curl -sS -v -X POST "$REG_ENDPOINT" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{    "redirect_uris": ["http://127.0.0.1:53195/callback"],    "grant_types": ["authorization_code","refresh_token"],    "response_types": ["code"],    "token_endpoint_auth_method": "none"  }' I get back from this a “Forbidden” response and without this response I can’t continue the OAuth protocol.Does client registration have limitations to prevent it from working on different domains and url callbacks at the moment? I am doing this in a context outside of Claude, Cursor, etc..

Hi! I can’t seem to smart animate my button radius to the way i want it. i decided to throw in a test button and it works perfectly like i wanted. my main button animates like it “dissolves” into the hover state. whereas the test button is animating properly. any idea how i should fix this? animation setting: