Following a viewer should show overlays

Hi @Kathi_Fleming, Thanks for sharing your thoughts about overlays!

I’ve run a few tests on my side but so far, I haven’t been able to reproduce the behavior you described with overlays when using the spotlight in presentation view.

I have a couple follow-up questions:
Does this issue occur in the desktop app, in the browser, or both?
Are any other collaborators experiencing the same issue?

If the issue still persists after these checks, would you mind leaching out our support team for further investigation here?: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
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• Make sure to use your Figma account Email.
• Please add support-share@figma.com as an Editor to the affected file (this won’t affect your billing at all) and send those direct link
• Please point out the frame experiencing this issue. (You can share a specific frame by right clicking on the frame in question, Copy link to selection)
• Capturing a quick video of your experience would be very helpful.

Hope to hear from you soon. If there’s anything I have misunderstood, please inform us!
Additionally, if any members of our community have further insights, please feel free to share them here.

Thanks again for reaching out.

It happens when doing the simple “click to follow” visitors who are interacting with my prototype and also while spotlighting myself for a presentation. It occurs both in the desktop and browser, and with other members of my team with different files.

It seems to work for tiny prototypes, but I don’t know when or why it breaks. I need to be able to follow users through menu and modal systems that use overlays.

Hi, thanks for reply and sorry to hear that you still experiencing this.

I wish to offer further help in this matter, but it is difficult for us to determine if this issue is due to feature limitations or other reasons.
Would you mind contacting our support team as mentioned in my previous post to help our support team to investigate the cause of the issue?

Thanks for your understanding!