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Hover tooltip for bound variables is not showing value/description anymore

  • April 13, 2026
  • 6 replies
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Piyush Bansal

Hovering over a bound variable used to show its resolved value and description, but that’s no longer happening. Now the tooltip doesn’t appear.

This was working fine before, so it feels like something broke in a recent update. Seeing it across different files.

Makes it harder to quickly inspect variables without digging around.
Would appreciate confirmation if this is a known issue or an unintended regression.

6 replies

  • Figmate
  • April 14, 2026

Hi ​@Piyush Bansal

 

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We want to make sure we understand the situation correctly.

On my end, I can confirm that clicking a bound variable in the Inspect panel opens its details, which aligns with our Help Center documentation: Variables in Dev Mode. However, I do not see a tooltip on hover.

Could you confirm if you were seeing a hover tooltip on the variable name in the Inspect panel before?
Once that's confirmed, I’ll pass this along to our team to review.

 

Thanks,

 


Dey Bersamin

Hi,

I’m not sure if this is the right thread but tooltip for variables does not work on my end anymore as well. Before when you hover on a semantic value, a primitive value shows up, can be a HEX colour, or number, depending on the type (boolean, etc.)

But now, as you can see it’s highlighted but the tooltip is not showing up.

The tooltip was helpful for me since I am manually migrating our design tokens.

Looking forward to your assistance on this.

Thanks


Juliana Mantilla

I’m having the same issue that Dey is describing. It makes everything so much more difficult!


  • Figmate
  • April 15, 2026

Hi ​@Dey Bersamin , ​@Juliana Mantilla,

 
Thanks for the follow-up!

To make sure we can pass this on to the team accurately, could you walk us through how you get to the screen in your screenshot? Just want to confirm if it's "Open Variables > Variable modal" or a different path.


Dey Bersamin

Hi ​@Junko3, correct! That’s how I opened the variables modal, and that’s where the tooltip used to show up. Thanks in advance.


  • Figmate
  • April 17, 2026

Thanks for the confirmation ​@Dey Bersamin ! I’ve passed this along to our team.
I’ll update once I learn more!