Interactive components not working when nested inside a main component

I used some interactive components and now all of a sudden the option from the sidebar is gone and i am not able to prototipe correctly

Having the same issue as others above with a navigation bar. Adding buttons with no fill on top of the nested component to change the other component’s variant states was an easy fix, but not ideal.

facing same issue.

I’ve got this too. Can’t select options in the ‘change to’ menu, which is plain baffling and I’ve wasted the past hour trying to fix…

Having an issue that may be related. It seems like making complex swappable interactive components with autolayout leads to problems. The prototypes don’t match the how the components look in the frame.

Yup, just run into this myself, definitely not solved.

It’s annoying to put so much time into combining instances / adding variants / building interactions between them, to only find out later none of that works when needed.

Please fix.

I had the same issue, but it was fixed after I discovered two variants with the same name (I forgot to update the new variant name), and that fixed the issue when clicking the variants in the interaction pane wouldn’t actually update the variant. Check your variant names!

Absolutely not fixed @Figma_Support

Thank you for the fantastic answer! Honestly didn’t even actually read at first— your Figma solution link is so clear and self-explanatory that it made me instantly realize how to solve this.

Yes, giving my thumbs up for this post. 🥲

Nesting interactive components is still broken and mess up the prototype when used that way.

As I found, the only solution to get it working is to restrain from using by removing the interactions from the nested component and instead create additional variants for the parent component.

Depending on your number of nested components, their variants and resulting count of combinations, it is simply not reasonable to recreate them as single parent variants.

So currently, this takes away a big chunk of the Figma prototyping capabilities.