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Slot content mirrored between instances

  • July 7, 2026
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I use the slot feature in a footer component where I can insert buttons. I have a frame where I use this component and have already filled it with two buttons. I wanted to use the same footer with these two buttons in other similar frames. So I copied the footer component with the two buttons inside the slot, selected the frames, and pasted. Somehow all the footers I pasted are now mirrored. If i change the text in a button it changes in all of them. If I change button order it changes in all of them. If I add something new into the slot it adds to all of them.

I don’t want them to be connected, I just wanted to be efficient in my work by pasting in all frames at once. I can’t find a way to separate them without reseting the instance and loosing the content. It is only the content in the slot that is mirrored, not the whole component.

Is this a feature or a bug?

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Jaycee Lewis
Figmate

Hey, ​@Fritro 👋 Thanks for your question. It can be hard to say for sure without more information. Happy to dig in with you.

Questions:

  • If you right-click one of the mirrored footers → "Go to main component", does it point to the same main component for all the affected instances, or different ones?
  • Are the frames you pasted into themselves component instances, or plain frames?

A quick test if you have a sec:

  • Create one frame with the footer instance + two buttons in its slot
  • Copy just that footer instance (not the whole frame) — right-click → Copy, or Cmd/Ctrl+C with only the footer selected
  • Paste it into a second, separate frame one at a time using plain Paste (Cmd/Ctrl+V), rather than selecting multiple frames and pasting at once
  • Edit the slot content (text, button order, etc.) on this second instance
    • If instance #1 does not change → we can look at pasting into multiple selected frames at once being the culprit
    • If instance #1 does change, even with one-at-a-time paste → we can look at broader instance/slot linking issues 

Talk soon! — Jaycee

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