Problem description:Hi Figma team,Since the last update, I can no longer see the distance between elements when I select one and hold down the Option key (on Mac) while hovering over another. I’ve tried everything suggested:Using Option or Alt + hover over another element. Switching from Draw to Design mode in the bottom right of the interface. Restarting Figma, opening new files, updating the app, clearing the cache, trying the web version, and even disabling plugins.Nothing has worked and the problem persists, even though I used to see the measurements with no problem before.I would really appreciate some help, since this tool is essential in my workflow and it’s causing me a lot of issues.Thank you!

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Can't see distances between elements, even in Design mode and after trying everything

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September 17, 2025
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Problem description:

Hi Figma team,
Since the last update, I can no longer see the distance between elements when I select one and hold down the Option key (on Mac) while hovering over another. I’ve tried everything suggested:

Using Option or Alt + hover over another element.
Switching from Draw to Design mode in the bottom right of the interface.
Restarting Figma, opening new files, updating the app, clearing the cache, trying the web version, and even disabling plugins.

Nothing has worked and the problem persists, even though I used to see the measurements with no problem before.

I would really appreciate some help, since this tool is essential in my workflow and it’s causing me a lot of issues.

Thank you!

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Best answer by Junko3

Hi there,

As some of you may have already noticed, our engineering team has released a fix for the recent issue.

If you’ve run into this problem recently, please refresh your tab and try using the shortcut again to confirm if it’s now working.

Thanks again for flagging this and for your patience while we worked on the fix!

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Yahor

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Same thing. Really annoying

Daniel Russell

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seems the code is changing or conflicting when do some updates, let developer fix things up 😆

For a company this big, why are they not doing proper QA before releasing to prod?

Beech Agency

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Same issue as well! Hope this gets fixed soon

Wahaj Moiz

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Happened to me too..

S4Dnet

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Hey, same problem here. Already re-installed the app, used the reset and restart but it just won’t work. The browser version is with the same problem tho. Might be a bug because it was working flawlessly about 2 hours ago.