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Drew B
New Member
March 20, 2025
Question

Paste to Replace no longer working properly in browser version?

  • March 20, 2025
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Paste to Replace is no longer working properly as of a few days ago. It seems to be using Paste as Text despite using the shortcut and context menu options for Paste to Replace. 

Desktop app seems to be working as intended but I prefer the browser version if that’s still a viable option. 

In browser I have tried:

  • Logging out/in
  • Signing out of other devices
  • Clearing browser cache, history, etc.


Worst case I can switch to desktop app, just curious if I’m doing something wrong here.

Thank you!

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Gayani_S
Figmate
Community Support
March 21, 2025

Hi ​@Drew B, thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. 

Our engineers are currently investigating this, but in the meantime, can you try the following steps: 

  • Try a different browser? 
  • Check browser extensions- Can you try disabling browser extensions and check if that helps?
  • Review other apps- do you have any apps installed on your computer that modify the clipboard content? If so can you try disabling these, and check if that helps?

As a temporary workaround, can you please try the following?:

  1. Turning off the clipboard permission for Figma on the browser (screenshot below)
  2. Reload the site
  3. See if you can paste contents as expected

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I really appreciate your patience while we work on this. Please let me know if any of these steps help, and feel free to reach out with any updates or further questions!

Thanks again!

Drew B
Drew BAuthor
New Member
March 21, 2025

Hi Gayani,

Thanks for the follow up. Forgot to mention, the browser I’m currently experiencing issues is with Chrome.

Steps I’ve taken within Chrome:

  • Reset clipboard permissions for Figma
  • Reloaded page
  • Relaunched browser
  • Disabled remaining extensions

Unfortunately these did not work for Chrome. In addition, I can’t seem to find any apps that would interfere with clipboard content.

However, I tried launching Figma in a different browser (Brave) and Paste to Replace worked as intended.

Hope this helps. Thank you!

dre
New Member
March 24, 2025

Any updates on this, I am having the same issue. Also in chrome.  Thanks!

Drew B
Drew BAuthor
New Member
March 26, 2025

No updates in the Chrome browser from my experience. I’ve ended up using the desktop client for now. 

Arooba Ashraf
New Member
March 26, 2025

Hey there, its not working for me as well. I have everything mentioned above as well.

 

Dhinesh13
New Member
March 26, 2025

Hi Figma Community,

I am encountering an issue while using Figma on Google Chrome (Windows). When I copied (component, section, frame, etc) or any other element and attempt to use the "Paste to Replace" (Ctrl+Shift+R) function, only the text gets pasted, and other parts of the component do not replace as expected.

Has anyone experienced this issue or found a solution? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

dre
New Member
March 26, 2025

@Dhinesh13 I think this is the same experience we are all having on the thread.

Dhinesh13
New Member
March 27, 2025

@dre Thanks for confirming! Hopefully, someone can share a fix or workaround soon.

Dhinesh13
New Member
March 27, 2025

I just tested it on the Brave browser, and it seems to be working fine there. Looks like this might be a Chrome-specific issue.

Gayani_S
Figmate
Community Support
March 27, 2025

Hey everyone, thank you for the additional information, I’ll pass this to the team internally. Our engineers are actively investigating it, and we’re doing everything we can to get it resolved as soon as possible.

I’ll keep you updated as soon as I have more information. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding while we work on this. We really appreciate it.