Make Dev Mode Annotations Visible to All

Just adding to this, this still hasn’t been fixed.

I’m late to the game,  seems like this bug is still a bug

I used it for some time to do some handoff annotations and couldn’t believe when I realized it wasn’t visible to all users. All the annotation work is now disposable since part of the team can’t see it. Please change that. 

Better stick with plugins for now. 

I was thrilled that this feature, which appeared to be separate from Dev mode annotations (and is presented as a type of comment, no less), appeared recently. It solves many problems with marking up content for stakeholders and reviewers who only ever need to view designs.

The fact that annotations are ‘sticky’ and follow design elements around is a game-changer after using DIY and third-party markup tools, which create a confusing mess when used on evolving designs. 

So it’s hugely disappointing to find that this appears to be just a confusing variant of Dev mode annotations – and that they need a paid licence to view. We have hundreds of people who need to view designs on an occasional basis and there’s absolutely no chance (let alone a need) of them getting a paid licence.

If annotations are intended to be a paid-licence-only feature, then they’re useless – but hopefully this is just a bug that will be fixed imminently, as suggested above. 

+1 for allowing annotations to be visible for all 👹

Upvoting this, Annotations are great for anyone involved in a project, not solely internal designers or devs.

Adding here that annotations are not visible when embedding the frame/section either. They just disappear when viewed. Hoping when this is fixed for all those with view access that embeds will be fixed as well.

The labor cost is massive when manually crafting, positioning, and categorizing annotations because the built in annotations are locked to most users.

We can't justify Dev Mode licenses for every person who needs to see the necessary annotations attached to all our designs.

This is the biggest disappointment that Figma has shipped thus far.

+1 to this, this is super frustrating, I thought annotations are the same as comments - visible to anyone with View access…. 

+1 for all to view annotations. I thought the feature would be visible by free viewers too since it seemed like the move from Dev mode to Design mode would become similar to comments.