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Figma Motion creates a duplicate keyframe just before the current keyframe

  • July 17, 2026
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Nikita Karpinskii

Hi! I am experiencing an issue with keyframe creation in Figma Motion.

The playhead appears to be positioned exactly on an existing keyframe, but when I change a property, Motion sometimes creates another keyframe about 0.001 seconds earlier. As a result, two nearly identical keyframes are created next to each other.

This is difficult to notice and can cause unexpected animation behavior. It would be helpful if Motion snapped the playhead more reliably to existing keyframes and updated the selected keyframe instead of creating a new one a fraction of a millisecond earlier.

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    adamsmasher
    Figmate
    • adamsmasher
    • Figmate
    • July 17, 2026

    Thanks for your post, ​@Nikita Karpinskii! This sounds frustrating for you.

     

    Have you tried zooming in on the Motion timeline? That might be useful for managing keyframes that are close together. Having said that, you might want to try one of the two following ways of snapping to a keyframe - that should prevent having extra keyframes that are so close together in time:

    • Hold shift while moving across the timeline to snap to keyframe points.
    • Double click keyframes to move the playhead to that exact keyframe.

    Let me know if these don’t help and we’ll go from there.

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