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June 26, 2025
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Figma board pen is not working properly

  • June 26, 2025
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For a long time, the figma pen has been lagging, but that’s fine because we’ve been patiently waiting for them to fix it and could still make do. But recently, I don’t know if it’s because of the updates, but the pen function has been horrible when I use my graphics tablet. Not only does it lag (as it has always done), but it is faint and you have to press down real hard for it to work. I can’t write using my laptop touch pad but it works better with the touch pad. Please Figma team, help me out because using Figma is now becoming next to impossible for a classroom setting.

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    Blaize
    Blaize
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    July 20, 2025

    Thanks so much for the update, and I’m really glad to hear the pen is working again! We did identify and mitigated the issue. Appreciate you hanging in there and confirming the details — it really helps. If anything comes up again, don’t hesitate to reach out!

    It seems the “variable width strokes” feature that was introduced on June 26th was removed last week from FigJam.

    I think this feature is what was causing the issue for users, specifically on Windows (I also had the issue on my Windows PC). This would explain why the feature was recently rolled back. 


    However, on MacOS, it was working fine, but the feature was also removed anyway. I’m bummed out since I really liked that feature — It gave me much more control over the width of the pen strokes in FigJam and made handwriting look more natural. Please let me know if there is a way I can re-enable it or if you plan to add it back to MacOS, since it is a Windows-specific issue.

    Thank you for your help

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