Disable 'observe' mode

I hate this. I would like the ability simply to hide the facepile in the UI so that I don’t know who is watching even if they are. It’s so distracting seeing multiple team users come and go. I just want to work in peace even if there are lots of other people looking at the file.

My temporary fix of multiple layers of post it note over the facepile seems to be working, but doesn’t scale well to other apps when I change windows.

Simply change you name to ‘Guest’ and nobody knows who they are looking at 🙂

I figured out a way to hid the facepile of people looking at a document, which is all I really want at this point in time as it gives me massive anxiety every time I see heads popping in and out of a document.

Go to File → Plugins → Development → Show / Hide Console

Then add the following to the stylesheet

[data-onboarding-key="multiplayer-avatars"] {
    display: none;
} 

Doesn’t persist through restarts, but hopefully if I do it at the start of the day it’ll last the day.

Hi all. Is there any news/progress on this? As a newcomer to Figma I find it pretty disturbing that other people in an organisation can literally sit and watch you work. How is this even a thing!??

As the design system team, we have permissions for almost all files within our organisation, and a mutual understanding with designers that we may look around and check out what’s being created in order to gauge priorities for future releases and find use cases to consider. However nobody enjoys being aware of other users floating around their file while they work, and we don’t enjoy intruding while others are at work, to the point where we’ll often leave and try again later if we see the file owner actively working.
A “ghost mode” would allow us to drop in, get what we need and leave without disrupting anyone’s work.

Seriously, this is annoying. Almost four years later and this massive flaw of a privacy violation feature hasn’t been properly addressed.

This is ridiculous. Please ADJUST this garbage of a feature.

This would be worse! Then you wouldn’t even be aware if someone is watching you. As far as I’m aware Figma saves multiple points of work? Surely there could be a way for other teams who need access to files to only be able to view say, the end of the previous days work. Giving your team, in your example, ample information to make decisions about priorities? Leaving the designer free to work without the sole crushing anxiety of possibly being spied on.

How is it possible that everyone has been asking for this to be removed for YEARS! When we pay so much for this service I think we deserve to be heard. TAKE THIS RUBBISH FEATURE OFF!!!

I know the designers I work with, and we’d all be cool with the option to simply not be constantly aware of one another. When I’m working on designs I also don’t mind people watching (so long as this doesn’t lead to them messaging me about what I’m doing), but I do mind seeing them hop around me as I do it.