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Tim.E
New Member
March 20, 2026
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Prototype vertical scrolling not working in figma slides

  • March 20, 2026
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Prototypes embedded in Figma Slides no longer allow full vertical scrolling during presentation, even though vertical scrolling works correctly when the prototype is played directly. This appears to be a regression, as the same slides and prototypes worked previously.

 

Whats happening:
 

In the past, I’ve been able to embed interactive prototypes into Figma Slides and present them with full vertical scrolling enabled.

Today, I created a new slide deck and added a prototype, but the vertical canvas scroll does not work as expected during slide presentation, despite working correctly when the prototype is played on its own.

After noticing this, I went back and checked older slide decks where this behavior previously worked, and I’m now seeing the same scrolling issue there as well.

 

Current behaviour for me:

  • Scrolling only works within the initial height that was loaded when the slide was presented.
  • If the prototype includes interactions that increase content height (e.g. expanding sections, accordions), scrolling is only possible up to the originally loaded area, not beyond it.
  • You can scroll back to where the page initially loaded, but cannot scroll past that point.
  • This issue now affects both newly created slides and older slides that previously worked.

Expected behaviour/past behaviour :

Embedded prototypes should support full vertical scrolling, consistent with normal prototype playback.

 

15 replies

Beccah Erickson
New Member
July 16, 2026

Hi, has this been resolved for others? 

I’m running into the same vertical scroll issue, only in Figma slides. Where the scroll stops seems arbitrary (not tied to a specific frame or vertical height).

adamsmasher
Figmate
Figmate
July 16, 2026

Hi, ​@Beccah Erickson! Thanks for your reply. Your design came from a Figma Design file, right? Just confirming that you copied it and didn’t create it fresh in Slides.

 

Can you try the following and see if that resolves this for you?

  1. Go back to Figma Design and select the design.
  2. Under layout, check the "clip content" option.
  3. Resize the design to the desired size you want for your Slides.
  4. Copy the design over to Slides

Let me know if this doesn’t help and we’ll go from there.

Josh_nffc
New Member
July 21, 2026

 

  1. Go back to Figma Design and select the design.
  2. Under layout, check the "clip content" option.
  3. Resize the design to the desired size you want for your Slides.
  4. Copy the design over to Slides


This issue was sending me crazy! The above steps worked for me - I simply resized my full design artboard height and set the ‘Prototype > Scroll Behaviour > Overflow = Vertcial’. 

The prototype scroll functionality now works as before in Slides preview, and any ‘sticky / fixed’ behaviour is retained. 

It seems for some reason the ‘Prototype’ embed in Slides doesn’t match the exact behaviour as the actual project prototype. This is very confusing UX and also presents an unnecessary step in the workflow now - To go back and work on the original design means re-sizing the artboard back to full view to see all the elements, making any design changes, and then remembering to resize down again to trigger the overflow specifically for the slides protoype. This would certainly be very annoying for a large presentation with multiple contributors etc.

Surely this is a bug as a result of an update, as one would expect the ‘prototype’ functionality embedded in slides to exactly match the actual prototype behaviours from the design file?

Daniel_Alvarez1
New Member
August 6, 2026

Sticky and Fixed behaviours are not working either. While the regular prototype view works just fine, the prototype view in Figma Slides doesn't.

Jaycee Lewis
Figmate
Figmate
August 7, 2026

Hi, ​@Daniel_Alvarez1 👋 Can you try ​@adamsmasher ‘s steps and let me know if it resolves for you, please?

Can you try the following and see if that resolves this for you?

  1. Go back to Figma Design and select the design.
  2. Under layout, check the "clip content" option.
  3. Resize the design to the desired size you want for your Slides.
  4. Copy the design over to Slides

If not

Are you able to share the file with view access to support-share@figma.com? This won’t affect your billing at all and will give us something we can take to our team to investigate. No need to add the link here, we can have you add it to a support ticket

And I can better understand our next move. Thanks! — Jaycee