Allow us to expose Annotations and Measurements to View Seat users.

great idea, because what a point of this feature if it is not visible

Just found the Annotations feature way too late—but it was an instant game-changer and we pushed it straight into production.

• Finally solves hand-off gaps that plugins never fully covered.

• After weeks of relying on Annotations + Measurements we discovered—surprise!—you need at least one Dev-Mode seat just to read them.

• Our external stakeholders intentionally hold only View seats (no Dev, no Design) yet they must be able to read these notes—ideally even per-category.

• PDF export: please give us an option to include Annotations in the output as well!

Opening up read-only access (and PDF output) would remove a huge adoption barrier for key stakeholders & clients.

+1!!!!!

Annotations really need to be visible to Viewers. At least the text based ones, no need for measurements. Most of the time they include important information that’s not only useful for developers…. 

+1

When this feature first came out, I was so hyped to use it (I thought switching from our custom notes to this would be a huge upgrade). I even told my teammates, “Let’s ditch our notes and use Annotations instead, my friends!”

But then I realized… only paid seats can see the Annotations.

So I had to go back, apologize to my team, and painfully convert all those Annotations back to our old notes. It took me a week to undo that, Figma!!!

This is a simple feature with overwhelming demand (which is why there are so many free plugins offering the same thing). Yet you decided to charge people just to view these notes? Honestly, that feels unfair.

My company has over 500 Figma users, but only about 10 of them need paid seats—the rest are just viewers. I'm sure many companies adopt a similar model, because paying for 100+ seats just so people can view annotations is incredibly expensive.

A huge oversight to restrict this feature to certain users. It’s basically rendered this feature useless, or a risk if anything.

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There are people at my work who just need to view annotations about interactions, conditions, references etc. in order to write tickets and requirements, document, etc. but they don’t need Dev Mode as they aren’t developers.

It’s a lot of work to write and update comments in two places just so viewers can view them. I use the normal comments C feature for threads and questions and it’s too much work for others to sift through those to find requirement notes. So please add annotations to viewer seats!

+1

+1 all day long

+1

Echoing so much of what has already been said… Annotations for viewer seats just makes sense.