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Andrey Ch
New Member
April 17, 2025

Changing the location of annotations

  • April 17, 2025
  • 101 replies
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It would be a great idea to add the ability to move annotations (сhanging the place). Right now, they’re fixed in place and can overlap other elements. And you cannot change it.
What I mean is the ability to reposition an annotation freely while keeping the link to the target object intact.
Annotations are a really useful feature—thank you! Previously, I had to create similar functionality using my own objects.
 

Please do not move this offer to another discussion. 🙏
Can we move the Figma Annotations (in dev mode) from one Figma project to another?
These are different questions.

Pinned Reply By djv

Hey All, thank you for continuing to chime in here! 

I’ve moved most of your replies and +1 feedback from this topic into this similar, existing one with more engagement within the Community. To be transparent, there is no exact timeline I can provide on when or if this will be implemented, but I’ll do my best to advocate on your behalf. 

We appreciate your honest feedback. My team here on the forum will ensure it stays compiled here, so the team can easily reference it, when considering their future roadmap. 

 

101 replies

IlseN
New Member
September 1, 2025

+1. This seems such a huge oversight and means I have to keep using a 3rd party plugin as that lets me decide which side of the frame to put the annotation. 

wgo
Active Member
September 5, 2025

+1 
Let’s give this a bump. I kind of understand why they made the positioning automatic but at least let’s us pick left or right or top / bottom. 8-)

Luke Manimala
New Member
September 15, 2025

Please +1

Matthew_Mercer
New Participant
September 18, 2025

+1, please make annotations movable

tMinus1
New Member
September 19, 2025

+1 please make them movable

Mark Pickard
New Member
September 23, 2025

Just went searching for this! They keep covering my designs I have to move designs so they don’t overlap. I think they are a great feature and I love how you can add the component features as a list easily just let me move them out the way! You can’t then disconnect and attach anywhere I have to copy paste my comment then create a new annotation on a different part of the frame just to keep it out the way of the next design. Frustrating!! 

Carey_Spies1
New Member
October 9, 2025

Just started using annotations, wild that you can’t reposition them! I imagined it would be similar to figjam arrows where you can reposition both the start and the end. In addition to what others have said - If I place a notation and fill it out, but see that it’s ‘coming off of’ the wrong element I want to be able to adjust which element the annotation card is attached to.

Charlene_Hew
New Participant
October 10, 2025

I agree; I like when:

  • If a frame is selected, only show annotations for that frame.
  • If nothing is selected, show all annotations.
Thomas_Offinga
New Member
October 15, 2025

Echo-ing what others have shared here for months at this point. This feature has the potential to make developer handover so smooth, but I’ve heard from multiple engineers that it currently gets in the way too often.

Stephanie Murray
New Member
October 24, 2025

Thanks for the feedback ​@Cynthia Sarkis! We’re continuing to work on improvements to this, and I’ll get the feedback over to the teams that have a hand in annotation development :D 

Hi there! Have you heard back from your teams yet on feasibility? This tool is so easy to use, but the lack of positioning means I have to accommodate the rest of my documentation around it.

I’d love the annotation tool (or something like it) to replace my documentation components one day, but I’d happily take annotation positioning for now! 😅

Thanks!