Disable auto-nesting/auto-reparenting while moving objects

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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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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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Chris_Ford

I’d also like to request a feature to disable the auto-nesting/reparenting when moving objects. It’s a bit frustrating when objects get nested in every frame/group they pass over. Could we have a toggle or a keyboard shortcut for more control, similar to how Adobe Illustrator handles object movement? This would greatly streamline my workflow.

neff

Yes, coming from XD (like many) this auto-nesting behavior is terrible. Especially because the holding of the spacebar doesnt work reliable.

I’m fighting with the interface every time I try to just quickly move an icon in a group and then suddenly having it auto-inserting into an underlaying group.

djv

Community Support

Hey All, thanks for the feedback and apologies for the late acknowledgement!

We’ll pass this onto our team for future consideration.

Marco_Yu

New Member

This stupid annoying problem hasn’t been solved yet? What are you doing Figma team

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Bryan16

Three years is more than ‘late acknowledgement’

Stu_BC

What @Neff said. Please fix this.

Levang_Ray

New Participant

Fix this please.

Ryan_Brown1

New Participant

Yes, totally agree with all of this. There should be a checkbox on every frame to disable this functionality by default.

Also the current spacebar functionality should be reversed to where holding spacebar and dragging means that you want to nest the object. Otherwise dragging and dropping should not nest.