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Hannes Hauwaert
New Member
April 17, 2025
Question

Drag selection doesnt work in frames anymore

  • April 17, 2025
  • 26 replies
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I just updated Figma today, and for some reason. in some frames that I work in I cant Drag select the objects anymore. 

None of them are locked and I can still click select them one by one.
in other frames I can sometimes still drag select.

If I rebuild the ‘broke frame’ in a new frame it becomes broken aswell. here is a video of the issue

*Edit*
There is a Huge Section just above these frames, when I zoom out more, I can select again.

when the frame is too close to the section and zoomed in very close. issue happens again

When moving the Fram further away from the frame everything works again
 


 

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26 replies

Johann3
New Participant
June 13, 2025

+1 same issue, moving it helps temporarily.

Celine_
Figmate
Community Support
June 16, 2025

Hi everyone,  Celine here from the Community Support team.

Our engineering team has deployed a fix. When you get a chance, could you please try restarting or refreshing Figma to check if it’s working as expected now?

Thank you for your patience while we looked into this. Let us know if you’re still experiencing any issues!

Jaclyn
New Member
July 21, 2025

Still experiencing this issue as of today

Celine_
Figmate
Community Support
July 22, 2025

Hey ​@Jaclyn, thanks for flagging it! Since the issue has been resolved for others, we’d love to take a closer look at your case to better understand what’s going on. Please reach out to our support team here: Submit a bug report
Please use your Figma email account, include a link to the file, and add support-share@figma.com to your file with can edit permission so the team can take a closer a look at it. Thank you 🙏🏼

Anna Chan
September 24, 2025

Just experienced this out of nowhere. only a part of the frames can be selected via drag; another part doesn’t and the only way to move them is to select each frame manually to move them.

New Member
October 9, 2025

I can’t click and drag to select multiple layers that are placed within a device frame. I can only do that when all elements are placed outside the device frame.It is greatly affecting my design speed and efficiency. It still doesn’t do it when I hold down shift key and drag. Please fix this! 😭