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

  • November 18, 2025
  • 4 replies
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Biscay6697

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).

4 replies

Wyatt Coe
  • New Member
  • November 27, 2025

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


Barry_McMillan3

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.