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Motion component looping instead of playing once

  • July 2, 2026
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Iris Hofman

When I create a component set from a motion frame it does not behave correctly anymore and starts to loop even though the components are all set to play once.
It only has an on click tigger to go to the next motion component.

 

 

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Gayani_S
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • July 2, 2026

Hey ​@Iris Hofman, thanks for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble with your motion component set!

To help our team take a closer look, could you share a few more details:

  1. The URL of the main component, and the URL of the instance(s) that are looping instead of playing once
  2. Where the animation itself lives, on the main component, the instance, or a nested layer within the set
  3. Whether this happens in Design mode too, or only when you're working in Figma Motion
  4. Whether it happens every time, or just with this particular file

The screen recording and timeline screenshot you included are really helpful, thank you for that. If you're able to share the file directly, you can send it to support-share@figma.com with "Can view" access so we can dig in further on our end.

In the meantime, this article on using the Figma Motion timeline covers how playback settings (once, loop, ping-pong) are meant to work, in case it's a helpful reference while we look into this.

We'll follow up as soon as we hear back!


Iris Hofman
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  • New Participant
  • July 2, 2026

I think I've invited support-share@figma.com to the file with can view privileges.

 

This happens in present mode. In motion mode it works properly.

 

It happens in this file. I have not tried it in other files yet.

 

https://www.figma.com/design/y7TsMxeV7zAwg8iSDYWunj/HardwareInsight?node-id=3525-48016&t=z1SjfmeUH8WefeNW-4