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Roberto
Apr 16, 2021 8:13 AM UTC

Display scroll bar in prototype preview mode

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.

124 replies

Iris Hofman
New Participant
Feb 6, 2026 10:32 AM UTC

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

Ca_Nguyen
New Member
Feb 9, 2026 7:42 PM UTC

Scroll bar pleaseeeee

Pam Richmond
New Member
Jun 25, 2026 5:56 PM UTC

...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.

EvanMacAlpine
New Participant
Oct 13, 2026 3:55 PM UTC

Bumping this feature. Very important for prototype testing and also dev hand-off.