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Biscay6697
New Member
November 18, 2025
Question

Shortcut “K” no longer auto-focuses Scale input when switching from Move tool

I’ve been using the “K” shortcut workflow for scaling for years, and something has clearly changed recently.

This directly affects efficiency and accuracy, so I want to raise it for the team’s attention.

Expected Behavior

  1. Select any object

  2. Press K

    • Figma switches to the Scale tool

    • Automatically focuses & highlights the X scale field

  3. Type the desired scale value

  4. Press Enter

Current Behavior

  • Pressing K while:

    • switches to the Scale tool

    • but does NOT auto-focus the X scale input

  • Now I need to press K twice

    • First: switch tools

    • Second: focus the scale input field

This breaks the entire workflow, and my muscle memory leads to accidental opacity changes (e.g., typing 5 changes opacity to 50 instead of scaling).

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4 replies

Wyatt Coe
New Member
November 27, 2025

I have also found this change very frustrating! Please revert, Figma team. 

Barry_McMillan3
New Member
November 27, 2025

Please revert, this is not time efficient

Yihuang Zhou
New Member
December 3, 2025

Also found this to be super annoying, please fix!

Artur_Sorokin
New Member
December 4, 2025

Also voting for revert. Scaling now takes way more time and attention.