I have the same issue. I also want to disable this feature to free up my shortcut key usage.

My ⌥ + Space shortcut is configured for a certain function in another global product, such as instantly invoking an AI Chat Box.

However, a recent update to Figma seems to have added functionality to this shortcut, causing it to frequently fail when I use it. To this day, I still don't even know what ‘Keyboard pick selection activated' and 'Keyboard box selection activated' is supposed to do.

I have the same issue : when I use space to use the hand shortcut, this red box appears too, then I can’t move freely.

I'm facing an issue in Figma where it shows the message "Keyboard Box Selection Activated." I’ve searched online and found that pressing Shift + B should disable it, but that hasn’t worked for me.

If anyone knows how to resolve this, kindly share.

I’m having this issue too. It has completely interrupted my workflow and I’ve never had this happen to me. It just appeared after the newest update. 

Also having trouble with this, hoping this gets enough traction for a fix to be found

Same here, please turn it off 🙏

Ctrl+space, activates it, and by testing it. There are two modes, one box selection and another pick selection, so there is currently no way to disable it, you can switch using shortcut keys mentioned above. 

According to what I noticed these are for the people not using mouse at all, they can select elements using this, and move around. 

It annoyes me tbh, not a useful feature.

I looked for a way to disable this shortcut, but there doesn’t seem to be any

Same issue… It cuts my workflow too.
It would be nice if this feature could be deactivated.

Hi everyone! Thanks everyone for flagging this. Just to clarify: there isn’t currently an option in Figma to disable the “Keyboard pick selection activated” or “Keyboard box selection activated” modes at this time. We’ve shared your feedback with our team internally.

(After checking with our team, please also note that Space isn’t part of the scrolling gesture:

• Ctrl + Mouse scroll: zooms the canvas

• The fact that Ctrl + Space + Mouse scroll used to work before was incidental, not an intended feature.
  Hope this clarifies!)

About five years ago, I reached out to support to ask if Ctrl+Space could be treated the same as Space+Ctrl, as I’ve never seen an app that cares about the order in which the two are pressed. Back then, the keyboard box thing wasn’t a feature, and now it seems like they were sitting on the Ctrl+Space command, knowing they’d eventually fit something into it. But even all these years later, it’s really strange to have to think about what order I press those keys when I need to zoom in to a certain area, which I do all the time.

An option to treat the Ctrl+Space command the same, no matter the order they’re pressed, would be great to have. I still don’t know what kind of situation would call for the awkward keyboard selection tool, but after finally figuring out what it’s meant for, it still feels pretty useless.

If holding Ctrl is used for zooming, and holding Space is used for panning… in the process of navigating/searching files, it doesn’t seem surprising that they may interact, where Ctrl is still being held down when Space is pressed as the user switches between zooming and panning?

To me they are part of the same activity (searching for something) so I trigger this thing ALL THE TIME. Each instance requiring a move to press Esc to disable it again before i can continue working.

A Shortcuts Config UI would be really great (even just for disabling), because it’s not the only Figma shortcut that takes over system-level shortcuts I have for other apps.