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Paul_Lyons
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March 16, 2021
Question

Prototype bug - My prototypes flick between random screens when Interactive components are turned on

  • March 16, 2021
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I have quite a big file with many components in use for table cells, buttons, form elements etc, and have been using Interactive components for link / button hover states, check boxes etc.

My prototypes were working well until the last update. Now during random parts of the flow, my prototype randomly jumps between a series of screens, making the prototype unusable.

I went though all pages & elements, checking I didn’t have any stray ‘hover’ or ‘after delay’ actions in place and they were not any. I did however notice that some flows were fixed, by changing some duplicate frame names I had. The issue would however, pop up elsewhere in the flow and could not be fixed by adding unique frame names.

The only thing that stopped the bug, was when I turned off ‘Interactive components’ for the prototype. The prototype then worked fine after that (minus my micro interactions).

Bit of a strange bug, but thought i’d share for investigation.

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30 replies

Alessio_Viola
New Member
March 31, 2021

Thanks @Andrew_Chan ,

looks good here too with the new version. I’ll keep you updated if it re-occurs.

Thank you again and have a nice day 😉

Francesco_Pennisi
May 23, 2021

Hi @Andrew_Chan ,
It happened I encountered this bug too. How can I manage to fix this? It’s still unresolved for me.

I added you to project. The main issue is in the area of frame 136 and all his frame family.

Thanks, sincerely Francesco

Jeff_Coker
August 5, 2021

I’m having the same issue, unresolved

SohrabNiroo
New Participant
September 14, 2021

same problem here, when I try to sweep between buttons and I make a loop to come back and start again Figma loses it, even the buttons that have no prototype connection will act as another variant connection, or the data of will change to it’s last stand, it’s a crazy bug

Vicki1
September 24, 2021

I had it too! i got the weird flickering between screens.

Pedro_Mendoza
December 10, 2021

I’ve noticed the same thing. Though I think i’ve managed to track down part of the issue, it seems to return to the variant that was on the previous “page”.

So for example I have an interactive component that switches the text inside two inputs when clicked and has a search button that will take you to the respective frame with data for that input. But here’s the flow with the bug

  1. All blank inputs
  2. Click input 1 and then search. Input 1 data displays and input 1 has the correct text.
  3. Click input 2 and then search. Input 2 data displays and input 2 has the correct text.
  4. Click input 1 and then search. Input 1 data displays, but the input 2 has text.
  5. Click search while input 2 text visible. Input 2 data displays, but input 1 now has the text.
  6. Click search while input 1 text visible. Input 1 data displays, but input 2 now has the text.

Can repeat steps 5 and 6 infinitely.

So the search itself is working correctly, as it brings back the correct data from the input. But it seems like the variant is switching back and forth between frames. It even gets a bit messier with three inputs haha

Kenne_C
New Member
December 31, 2021

I have this exact same problem.
If I duplicate a frame and create a separate Flow starting point one or 2 frames from the previous interaction point it was created from will interfere with new flow even though the frames are not connected.

Any suggestion on how to fix this?

Hodge_Sophie_Junior_UX_Designe
February 10, 2022

I’m using Figma Mirror on iPad and experiencing this - it’s skipping over 2 or 3 pages in the prototype in quick succession. The only way to fix it seems to be to use a ‘mouse up’ interaction with 2ms delay, instead of ‘on click’.

This problem doesn’t happen when using the prototype on my laptop, just Mirror.

We’re using interactive components but like others say, it would be a huge amount of work to replace them now.

Matt_Brown1
February 21, 2022

We’re running a prototype on iPad and it’s jumping all over the place between screens. This happens w/ or w/out interactive components turned on. Anyone know this bug or have a workaround? I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled and tried two diff iPads. It works perfectly in Figma desktop and on an iPhone running iOS 14

Alina35
March 15, 2022

Great. The “mouse up” with 2ms delay worked for me as well. Thank you for that.