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Roberto
April 16, 2021

Display scroll bar in prototype preview mode

  • April 16, 2021
  • 123 replies
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There’s no visible scrollbar in Figma prototyping mode. Yesterday we’re having user testings and once again this same topic popped out. Some of the users didn’t thought that they could scroll prototype because scrollbar wasn’t visible. One of the user was using laptop’s touchpad and he wasn’t able to scroll with only using touchpad. Guiding user how to use prototype during test can harm testing situations. Atleast it’s sure that if user thought that he can’t scroll it leads to biased feedback about product.

If there’s some reason not to have scrollbar it could be atleast optional feature that designer could turn visible scrollbar on from options.

It’s not only who has came across with this weakness in Figma. Here’s old Spectrum thread about same topic but Figma hasn’t done anything for this yet and I hope this get more attention here.

123 replies

Iris Hofman
New Participant
February 6, 2026

How are there only 60 likes whilst 120 have responded? Weird

Ca_Nguyen
New Member
February 9, 2026

Scroll bar pleaseeeee

Pam Richmond
New Member
June 25, 2026

...I get that this might not be wanted behaviour for Mobile app prototypes, but maybe this could be a setting in the prototype options?
Group 1

I was just looking for this very option, thinking maybe it existed and I missed it. This is precisely where I looked for it.