Disable auto-nesting/auto-reparenting while moving objects

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February 11, 2021
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The issue with this feature has been covered many times in Spectrum discussions:

There is a way to avoid this by holding SPACE as soon as you click & don’t start dragging the object. But why force us to do acrobatics with our fingers by holding down an additional button, just to move the object? Why not provide an option to disable that functionality completely?

Nagaraj Chandran had a very logical idea in his comment:
“I don’t want to hold the spacebar key to disable auto-nesting. Maybe, it should be the other way around. Hold spacebar or any other key to auto-nest.”

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More than enough in discussions on Spectrum ☝️

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Does anybody find this feature useful? If yes, please enlighten me on how to make use of it because it’s driving me insane and kills my productivity big time.

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Tom_Auger1

New Participant

I think what’s really sad with Figma (and many other software companies, TBH) is that their QA, dev or customer success teams never comb the forums. They put these forums up for the community to “support each other” so they don’t have to, but there are real nuggets (like this one) that have a ton of responses over 3 YEARS that hasn’t even been graced with a single official response from the Figma team. I can only expect this to get WORSE with the recent Adobe acquisition (if Figma even survives it).

Prove me wrong, Figma. Respond to this thread and tell us someone is listening and cares.

James_Walsh

New Participant

This still annoys me on a day to day basis. Would it be so difficult to allow a user preference for this? Holding space is such an annoyance (especially when there is no visual confirmation you pressed it at just the right time. I’d even accept a plus on the grabbed hand cursor or something?)

Keith_Rondinelli

Any solutions for this on the horizon? This is just a terribly annoying “feature” in Figma. I find I can’t reposition an item without it popping down into a group / frame where I don’t want it, or out of the main frame altogether. There should simply be a user preference, checked on or off, that says, “disable auto-nesting of dragged objects” and be done with it.

Kristen_Abercrombie

This has been driving me bonkers lately, it’s alway been an annoyance but it feels like it’s gotten worse, if that’s possible? It’s like it got more sensitive, layers are auto-nesting into frames that I’ve barely dragged over. Weird. I love Figma, but this particular thing is so frustrating and slows me down.

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ticmais_dev

this is the most idiotic thing ever. it makes me a lot less productive, because I’m always trying to remember to hold spacebar and sometimes it just auto-nest anyways.

Basilicom

New Member

full support on inverting this “feature”. Its so damn annoying.

mr.D

Introducing a universal setting to turn off this feature should satisfy all users. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet given it an upvote or left a comment, please consider doing so to help amplify our message.

Luciano_Foglia

Please disable or make it an option. It’s counter intuitive to use. Thanks

JPress

New Participant

I’m in complete agreement with all of this. I can’t understand why this is the default functionality. Even when a frame is behind other layers, it still tries to nest what you’re dragging into the frame, regardless of how many other layers/objects are in front.

Here’s a recording of this happening. I’m trying to duplicate the objects, and the frame the objects are being forced into is several layers behind. I don’t see what the logic to this behavior is, certainly not on default.

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