Allow pasting from Illustrator as Vector

What you need to do is:
Go to illustrator / preferences / Clipboard Handling / Mark “Include SVG Code” and Unmark PDF.

I was having the same issue and tried everything mentioned here without results, then I just selected the object in illustrator and went to Object > Expand Appearance then I tried again and it worked! I also instead of grouping it I use pathfinder to united and simplify vector structures, Hope this helps!

Unfortunately I’m having this issue as well. Yesterday, Copy from Illustrator → Paste into Figma was working perfectly, but today it’s no longer pasting as vectors.

I’ve tried all of the suggestions in this thread (clipboard preferences, ungrouping, expand appearance, restarting apps etc.) with no luck. It just keeps coming through as a PNG.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

This was happening to me as well. To paste a vector from illustrator, make sure that you aren’t posting it into any frame or grouping or component. Just the path onto the pasteboard. Then you can get that vector and paste it into more complex structures.

I recommend deleting the text object from the document entirely or simply expanding everything to paste it as a vector object in Figma.

I’m having this issue as well, like others above, my clipboard settings are set to include SVG code in Illustrator, I have no other text in the document, it’s set in RGB, no gradients or fancy effects and I have expanded the stroke into a shape. No matter what it keeps being pasted as a raster image. 

This is the second time this problem happens to me. The first time I fixed it through the «include svg» check in Illustrator. Then, a few days later, Illustrator had an update and it has since stopped working again.

I’m having the same issue as others described above.
 

It used to work for me after checking ‘include svg’ but now nothing works. Every item I copy and paste from illustrator into Figma pastes as a rastered image. Incredibly frustrating. 

I can confirm, downgrading to a previous build of Illustrator resolves the issue.

Made a illustrator script. You can use this to copy the code and paste it in figma. Not ideal solution but this is the easiest i could think of without exporting SVG over n’ over again.

Download file here: https://www.transfernow.net/dl/20250924ADmUgXx0

How to use: 

1. Select the object you want to copy.
2. Run the script from File > Scripts > Other Script (load the file)
3. It will open the SVG code of that object. Copy and Paste it in figma

Hope this helps.

Cheers.