When I click on the prototype button, two windows open. The first window remains blank, and the second window always starts at the beginning of the flow. Previously, it was possible to start from a specific screen within the flow. The loading time also seems slower.
Hi
Are you still having issues launching your Prototype? If so, this definitely doesn’t sound like the expected behavior.
Did you create multiple prototype flows in your file previously? From your screenshot, it looks like the two Prototype tabs that open are different flows, but it’s hard to be sure. Are you able to share a URL link to your file, and/or a screenshot of your Prototype tab in the Design file with your Flow starting points, so we here in the Community can take a closer look at how you’ve set up the Prototype before trying to Present?
With this information, we can try to continue to troubleshoot together.
I'm experiencing a strange issue with Figma Presentation on macOS (Desktop app), and it happens across all files.
When I click “Present”:
Right after launching Figma, everything works normally for a few seconds.
But after a short time:
This seems like a conflict between:
It looks like macOS is reassigning the presentation window after a few seconds.
Has anyone experienced this?
Also experiencing this, affects one of my laptops but not the other.
Affected laptop is running Tahoe 26.3. Unaffected is running 26.2. Not sure if that’s what is causing it but if there are anything details that are needed let me know.
Hi
Thanks for the detailed report.
I understand the issue you're facing after updating macOS: when you try to present in the Figma Desktop App, it opens a black screen along with another window that incorrectly defaults to Page 1, instead of the frame you selected.
I’ve just tested this on my end (Figma Desktop App v126.2.10 on macOS 26.3.1) but wasn't able to reproduce the behavior. I also checked our internal reports and couldn't find any similar cases so far.
To investigate this further, I’ve gone ahead and created a support ticket(#1839222) on your behalf with all the information you've provided. You'll receive a confirmation email shortly.
Once you do, could you please reply to that email with a screen recording/screenshots of the issue? Seeing exactly what you're seeing will be a huge help for our team.
Hi
Thank you for confirming you're seeing this as well. To help us investigate, I'm going to send you a Private Message shortly.
In the meantime, for both of you, please double-check that you are on the latest version of the Figma Desktop App.
Thanks for your help!
Any updates on this bug? Just cropped up for me last night in my Mac app and it really breaks my workflow. It opens the 2 tabs, the first blank, the second with the wrong prototype in my file. Same bug across multiple files. Restarted Figma and my Mac, doesn’t fix it. I’m running the latest version of Figma desktop (126.2.10) and Mac Tahoe 26.0.1 (25A362)
UPDATE: I figured out that second tab is actually the first prototype in the first page of your file. In my case, it was showing the cover because it was my first page. I moved my prototype page to the top of the page list and then it showed up in the second tab that is launched. It’s an ugly workaround, especially if you have lots of prototypes in a page or multiple pages with a prototype but it’s something.
It would be helpful if we could have a public ticketing system like Github so we can view and comment on open issues. I don’t think that’s how it works for Figma so they are black holes for issues like this. If I missed a link to the tickets, I’d appreciate a link.
Related threads:
Hi
Thanks for the additional input.
I can confirm our Technical Quality team is currently investigating this in several tickets. (Thank you
Unfortunately, we don't have an open ticket system at the moment, but thank you for showing willingness to help with this issue. Please consider submitting a bug report so our technical quality team can take a closer look at your case.
What to share in a bug report to Figma Support
Thanks,
Hi, i’m having the same issue. there are no multiple flows, no matter how i start the prototype mode (play button, from flow starting point, keyboard shortcut) it does this. it also happens in other files. restarting the app did nothing either :(
Hi
I’ve combined a couple of forum topics together into this thread, so we can keep the community updated as soon as we hear more from the team.
Our technical quality team is now proactively investigating this issue. If you’d like further one on one support, please consider also submitting a bug report, so our technical quality team can take a closer look at your specific file.
In any case, we’ll provide an update, if we have one from the team as soon as we can.
I resolved my issue! I had logged into another Figma account of mine while having tabs of files that that account doesn’t have access to.
So on the home screen I was user 2 with opened tabs made by user 1 (in a different org as well). I could edit them and even leave comments as user 1, but prototype mode didn’t work. When I changed to user 1 on the home screen, prototype mode started working normally. Switching back to user 2 led to the problem returning.
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