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Changing instance via variable resets text (and other properties) when inside component

  • August 5, 2024
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djv
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • July 9, 2025

Sorry to hear that, ​@Frank_K

As mentioned above, this is a long-standing bug that the team likely won’t be able to fix. 

For one-on-one support and possible alternative solutions, please feel free to reach out to our technical quality team here: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new 


nicholaskaschak

This is still an issue even after following the directions to fix as Frank said.

For me, this is specifically happening when changing the text within the instance when using a component that has a text property applied to it (a link component in this case).

If I go to the master component and remove the text property and publish, and then update the instance, the issue is gone. No matter how many times I try to tinker with resets in the instance I’m still getting the issue unless I apply this change. 

Ideally I wouldn’t have to remove the text property from the master component of course - any other suggestions?

*EDIT: This is actually only happening where the master component is used in a component, and then that component is nested within in another component. The below screenshots show the before and after states of each instance / nested instance - you can see how the “New Label” text in the Component 2 instance resets on the boolean variable change. One thing to note is that the variable is NOT applied to the Component 1 instance in the master of Component 2, it’s only applied in the instance of Component 2 - this is necessary for my use case as I don’t want this variable to be applied to all instances of Component 2

 

 


Mojo
  • New Participant
  • December 8, 2025

I can’t believe this is still happening? Wasn’t happening for me before, but now switching modes (large / small variables) reset nested components. I’ts breaking everything on my end.. dunno how to workaround this.. but work in a dummy unorganized way


Darcy_Branchini

Same problem and I don’t understand why Figma won’t fix this! They keep adding features, especially AI, but ignoring known issues that have been bugs forever now!