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Badredine Aniba
New Member
March 6, 2026
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Not receiving recent Figma updates (UI3, Slots) on both main and beta app

  • March 6, 2026
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I noticed that my Figma app hasn’t received some of the recent updates such as new left navigation bar and Slots for components.

I’m using the desktop app, and I also tried installing the beta version, but the features still don’t appear in either version.

To troubleshoot, I also reinstalled the application, but the issue remains the same.

Are these updates still being rolled out gradually, or could this be related to account permissions, region, or workspace settings?

Thanks in advance for your help!

The actual left bar

 

No new UI in the help section

 

 

Best answer by ksn

Hello everyone! I’m happy to tell you that slots is now rolled out to all Full seat users. If you're unable to access the feature, refresh the design file and check if you have edit access to it.

If you do not see the feature after that, please reply or PM me so I can have someone take a look. Enjoy!

61 replies

Christian Muntean
New Participant
March 9, 2026

Everyone can kind get access to it right now. But only in a limited scope. Figma published a playground file where there is a slot component namend „Panel“. If you copy and paste that component into your file you can start a NEW component only. You cannot move the slot into another component but you can modify it so it becomes a new component in your file. The backend is clearly updated, most people just don‘t have the UI enabled yet.

Yeah but you don’t have access to the full UI to set up the slot, so it’s kinda useless.

For me it isn’t. I started my entire component library from scratch and have already built 5 components using slots. Even though I don’t have the UI enabled on my end yet. And it works like a charm. The only thing I can’t do is restrict “preferred instances” … well because I’m missing the UI within Figma to do so. But I can create slots (by copy pasting the playground-component with the slot), duplicate them, rename them and add instances within them. And that’s quite all I need to get started

Kei-k
New Member
March 10, 2026

I am currently using 2 accounts, a student account and a free account and I have been seeing everyone around me too using a free account literally getting the new slots update and many other things. I am concerned that everyone is getting it and I am falling behind in keeping up with people especially when they discuss certain functions. Is there a certain way I can force update Figma to get the new UI update? I am really excited to have it and use it in my day-to-day designs.

Kei-k
New Member
March 10, 2026

same for me

Dan Karsenti
New Member
March 11, 2026

Same for me

Luz Carrillo
New Member
March 11, 2026

Same here. Don’t have access to slots. Paid plan 😔 Thanks!

Paupaula
New Member
March 11, 2026

Same here 😔 and it’s march 11th.

Chenhui0409
New Member
March 12, 2026

Same here, I’m full plan user, and my organization has already trained the slot update in the global design team. It’s march 12th already.

Mike M
New Member
March 12, 2026

Same thing  ((
I wish they would be more transparent on “gradual rolling out” terms. Or even better - found the capacity to roll out all at once 😒

Greg32
New Member
March 12, 2026

Sadly same as everyone here.
It’s been a week that the feature has been introduced and cannot train myself or my team with it.
Some have it and other don’t, it es really frustrating.
Why don’t you open it for everyone like you mention in your slots documentation page...

Diego_Arnaud
New Member
March 12, 2026

On the same train here. It's been a week since the initial release, and I still can't access it. What's annoying about this is that I'm working on updating our internal UI Kit and slots would allow for so much flexibility, I don't want to make the first wave of updates and then need to redo them only because the rollout decided it was go time for me.

I wish Figma had expressed the terms more clearly. The release is loud enough that you'd swear you get it in the first few days, but then you come to the forums and see people complaining that they still don't have it, and I don't think we're at fault here. I'd rather they announced the final date by which you could had gained Slots access, and be pleasantly surprised, rather than feeling like I've been waiting for a week, and counting.