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How to disable this new color list auto dropdown?

  • April 10, 2026
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ssnoww

This new feature disrupts my usual workflow of clicking outside the hex color value box to change the color. As a result, I often end up selecting a color from the list unintentionally.

I called this feature “Annoying color style dropdown I didn’t ask for”.

 

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    Nala1409
    • Nala1409
    • New Member
    • April 10, 2026

    Same here—it feels like they might be running some kind of A/B test. It’s pretty frustrating, and I’ve also run into bugs with the new dropdown that stop me from changing colors in the design.

    Rudolf_Bock1

    Yes, and the color menu isn't working as intended. It seems to be a bug.

    When a color is chosen, it doesn’t apply to the selected object. It seems to work randomly.

    I downgraded to version 126.2.9, and now everything works as expected again.

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    ssnoww
    • ssnoww
    • Author
    • New Participant
    • April 10, 2026

    Yes, and the color menu isn't working as intended. It seems to be a bug.

    When a color is chosen, it doesn’t apply to the selected object. It seems to work randomly.

    I downgraded to version 126.2.9, and now everything works as expected again.

    .

    Thanks for the video, and like, where are those color styles even coming from? I don’t need it, and I don’t want it. LOL

    BTW, how do you downgrade? I don’t know if you can do that.

    Rudolf_Bock1

    Yes, and the color menu isn't working as intended. It seems to be a bug.

    When a color is chosen, it doesn’t apply to the selected object. It seems to work randomly.

    I downgraded to version 126.2.9, and now everything works as expected again.

    .

    Thanks for the video, and like, where are those color styles even coming from? I don’t need it, and I don’t want it. LOL

    BTW, how do you downgrade? I don’t know if you can do that.


    The colors come from color variables in the same file. In this older version, the color pop-up menu still looks like the standard color drop-down menu, not a simplified, alphabetically sorted list of color variables. IMHO, this is a poor user experience that makes selecting colors efficiently nearly impossible.

    I was able to download the previous version here:
    https://desktop.figma.com/mac-universal/build/Figma-126.2.9.dmg

    Tom Reem
    Figmate
    • Tom Reem
    • Figmate
    • April 11, 2026

    Hey ​@ssnoww, ​@Nala1409, and ​@Rudolf_Bock1 — I looked into this, and a handful of others reported the same thing in a related thread. Our engineering team pushed a fix yesterday. Please take a look at the reply from ​@Celine_ in Not get used to this new feature and let me know if things are working as expected now.

    Thanks for flagging this, and for your patience while we got it sorted!

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