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MayaShendelman
June 9, 2021

Keep Comments pinned to design elements (including nested)

  • June 9, 2021
  • 166 replies
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When i move my design elements/frames/etc., I expect all the pinned comments to move with them – but they don’t. instead i’m left with a bunch of floating comments (that are not attached to anything), which requires me to manually re-read each comment and move it again to its correct place. this is frustrating and time consuming. but what’s worse is when another user forgets to move the comments after they move the design elements, so when i return to the Figma file it’s very difficult to decipher the floating comments because they are not pinned to anything so i have no idea what they’re referring to. please keep Comments pinned to design elements (so moving design elements automatically moves comments).

166 replies

Jo_Christian_Magnussen
July 12, 2022

Still an issue for me… Not working and loooooots of time spent manually moving comments 😦

peter_fiek
July 13, 2022

Having issues with this as well, nothing seems to stick.

July 23, 2022

Figma doesn’t natively support pinning comments to nested frames. This is especially frustration for Auto Layout frames whose content moves a lot by definition.

Is there a plugin to support this? I haven’t come across one.

Jakub_Topolski
August 1, 2022

@Gleb, it seems like a temporary solution. And since Figma is promoting auto-layout, which is an excellent feature, fixing it grows in importance as managing heavily structured frames with comments takes a lot of time now. When could we expect comments pinned to just any frame?

Andrew_Milmoe
August 2, 2022

I can’t think of any use case were comments would not follow when moving an object. This makes iterative work extremely tedious.

Astrid3
August 4, 2022

Hi there, is it possible to ping comments to frames so that if you copy/paste your frames on a new page they follow through?

Bayu_Prakoso
August 5, 2022

Does pinned comment on Figma already available? If not, I want to suggest that this feature would include on the next update. because I think it would simplify for the UX Manager to put the task list for his team in Figma. For now we usually writing manually on one page named by “Notes” if we want to create a task list but sometime it really tiresome to switch between the pages whenever we are doing a components creation.

Frank_Martin_Dietrich
August 16, 2022

Hey guys, I found a solution with a widget.

Whit_Gurley
New Member
October 13, 2022

Bump. This is not fixed, and it’s very frustrating. I can see Figma acting like it’s attaching a selected comment to an element (a blue box appears on hover), but when I move the element they’re still unlinked/independent. And yes, this works very well outside of artboards, just not in them, which is where they’re needed the most (since prototype viewers comment there).

Elan_Colello1
November 4, 2022

There is a bug when you drag the comment off the frame and then back on again, the comments don’t stay pinned when cutting an element to past it into another page.