Absolutely agree. Comments are basically worthless if they can’t be pinned to elements. This should be the #1 feature request in Figma’s backlog.

Upvoting this. I’d love to see the elements attached to be specific to the need. Such as a word in a paragraph could be selected then if you hit the commenting tool or the quick command keys it will attach itself to that object. If a frame, or an image, it should work the same whatever is selected is what the comment attaches to. There should be several ways to specifically attach comments so as adjustments get made the comments stay within their orientation within a given design

+1 We really need this

HOW TF is this still not a core function from day one of the the commenting feature???

+1 I also need this!

+1. … please make this possible at least as ‘copied comments’

This issue is incredibly frustrating and has resulted in our team pretty much abandoning the comments feature on many projects because the slightest change in content throws everything into chaos. We desperately need a way for comments to attach to lower-level elements so that when content is adjusted in auto-layouts for example comments don’t break.

+1 Comments in general are undercooked (a to-do system where you could assign people would be good) But this is absolutely the biggest pain point.

Same here. This does not work. This is the only feature why I switched to Figma from Invisionapp which supports commenting feature in a seemless manner. Not I am regretting switching to Figma.

Also, this solution will not work if you are commenting in Preview mode and commenting as a feature is mostly used by external stakeholder who are not UX designers and for them they prefer to see in preview mode where they won’t have to care about all the layers that UX designer has put together.

Adding some of my thoughts to this.

Many designers are on teams that use Jira or something similar, however, those are not made for design tasks. I’ve found myself, my fellow designers on the same team, my designer friends, and several others, to take notes of things requiring updates/changes in a Figma file using the Comment tool. Sometimes the stakeholders also jump in and give us feedback or requirements on the designs directly through comments. If this usage is a thing, then just like comments under Jira issues and Git commits and PR review notes and so on, the comments should be able to be part of a trackable history of design changes - how a need arises, what was done to address what, what became of a thing that previous was something else. This means two things are needed for the current comment tool/panel/feature to be more useful: (1) each comment needs to be pinned to a specific element and the user should be able to choose what element (or what level of frame/section/group etc) the comment is pinned to. IDK, maybe allow the Comment tool to click on an item in the Layers panel and that comment is pinned to that element? (2) when I’m trying to copy a link to a comment, I MEANT to copy a link that takes me STRAIGHT to that comment - not to the page the comment is on, not to the top-level frame the commented element is in, and even I don’t have show resolved comments turned on, I should still be able to see that (resolved) comment in its context by clicking on that link.

second this. Being able to turn comments into to-do’s would be cool

Still need better control with comments. Option to pin to a specific element. If deleting that element pin to the parent or convert to floating. I’d be fine with needing to manually re-pin a comment if I delete the element. But moving things around and chasing down comments is such a time hole! Working with a team spread across time zones and comments are so important for communication.

Hello, I’d like to add to this discussion as well to hopefully include the pinning of comment regions on the Frame, too. We are teaching our stakeholders to comment on Figma files, whether it’s clicking to pin a particular part of the frame or if it’s to select a region. Specifically for selecting a region when leaving a comment, if the underlying Frames or elements move in some way, the selected region still stays in place and then loses context on where it was originally placed in the first place.

Hoping the Figma team can work on this. I am loving the weekly Thursday updates for this second half of 2023, but I hope this particular 2-3 year old issue can be improved on.

Commenting has been kind of useless on most projects. Commenting should be locked to a frame or object. Sometimes it actually does but not all the time and I’m not sure why/not.

There could also be a separate “notes” fuction (such as in idunno…any number of plugins, other applications or ugh FigJam!?)

+1 for a more robust comment pinning solution. I can’t believe it’s been this long, with this many comments and still there is no way to pin a comment to an element within an auto-layout.

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to share a solution, which may not be perfect but at least works for me

Here are the steps:

1. First, relocate the component or element where you intend to pin the comment outside of your frame. (Make sure it’s placed outside the frame.)


2. Next, add your comment on the element.


3. Finally, move the element back inside the frame.

After that my comment stays always in place.

I hope this is helpful for you.

This “works” for me, but I hope a fix will come. The “solution” video by @Gleb indeed seemed to work for those easy cases. But when I add some comments to a design afterwards (with nested frames) and start moving things around the comments don’t stick to elements as expected.

In addition to this idea of a temporary solution.

1. When adding comments I just add a random shape (small) next to the design on the blank artboard. So not within a frame.


2. Add my comment to that element.


3. Drag it to the position I wanted the actual comment to be. (Optional set the shape to absolute position for more control.)


4. And then I hide the element CTRL + Shift + H.

Now I can move everything around and the comment is always where I want it to be.

! A big downside… the comments placed this way don’t show up in prototypes, and it doesn’t make a difference if you hide the element yes/no…

absolutely. It’s great to get stakeholders involved in the process HOWEVER if the tools to support that are not in place the involvement could turn into anything from an embarrassment to decreased trust of the stakeholders in the design team…

imagine if Jira/Github/Jira & Github integration’s comment feature is broken or not working as expected…

I would also like to bump this.

Please pin comments to components within an auto layout.

I’ve just encountered this issue! Comments are attached to the frame and not the component within. Very annoying.

Very important for me, too. Please bring this feature back 🙂

I am not quite sure if it has been already mentioned but it would be awesome to be able to cut/paste comment within a frame. Right now when you cut a frame the comments stays on an empty space in the page and you have to move every one of them manually to “re-associate” them to the corresponding frame