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Objects in Figma Slides keep moving to edge of screen

  • July 23, 2026
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Binh Mai

Randomly, and without any sense or oder, I will have my objects in my Figma Slides just completely bug out and push to the edge of the screen. 

Here is an example - originally I had everything with a 48px border around the edge of the screen. I have no idea what I did - I just went into my file and scrolled through the slides, and when I came back to this slide, nearly everything had shifted. 

Before, this looks fine. This has a 48px gap between content and edge. 
After, without warning, random elements are shoved to the edge of the screen. 
  • It seems with or without auto-layout, the components just move by themselves
  • It seems with or without a layout guide, the components will just move by themselves
  • It happens to random slides, without reason. It can be a slide I was just looking at, or a slide I was not looking at for a while - it just happens. 
  • It’s causing me to do a lot of extra work to reclean the slides back to how they were. 
  • Then I have to triple check the slides to ensure it looks fine, and when I do that, I inevitably find another slide that has completely shifted everything. 
  • Frustratingly, I cannot replicate this issue. It’d be one thing if I could pinpoint why my slides suddenly get messed up, but it just randomly happens. So it’s causing me to become paranoid about if a slide has messed up before a presentation (and it’s already happened once where I corrected a slide, and then during a presentation a different slide had shifted objects) 

This is extremely frustrating and makes Figma Slides unreliable. 

1 reply

adamsmasher
Figmate
  • Figmate
  • July 23, 2026

Hi, ​@Binh Mai. Thank you for including the screenshots - it makes me easier for me to see what you mean. I can understand why this is frustrating for you!

 

Like you, I haven’t been able to replicate this. I tried using a component and not, but both seemed fine. It’s noteworthy to me that it there seems to be spacing between a couple of the colored bars. If you select those layers in specific, are you seeing any padding added to them? Also, once you’ve fixed a slide, does it remain that way or do you find at some point it changes agian?