Components and Instance swaps reset on it's own after some time

Hello.

I have a setup where there’s a file that acts as a library carrying main components and a couple of design files for different platforms that calls these components from the main library file.

However. after some time (During which I haven’t worked on any of the files or the main library) I opened the files and found out that the majority of components and instance swaps in my design files had reset to their main states. some of them have nested variants from other components within them

nothing triggered this as the files and the library were left unopened for about a month. So I wasn’t working on the project or in other words it’s not a library update that triggered this, it happened on it's own.


for more details about the components in my mobile app design I had a Title bar with a varying number of icons between different pages (notification & side menu & message icons) some pages had only 1 of them.. some pages had 2..etc.

This was setup from the main component where I have the 3 icons existing and then when I need to only show 2 of them in an instance I use the appearance panel to hide the icons that I don’t want to show.

These icons are rectangular components with the icon inside as an instance swap property

Now all the screens have the 3 icons just like the main component and all the icons have the default icon of the instance swap property (not notification & side menu & messages anymore)

is anyone having the same issue ? what can I do about this ?