I’m not sure if this is a feature request, a bug report, or a public service announcement. But here goes:
My file has a few different pages, and I have a different prototype on each. When you launch a prototype, you expect to see the one that lives on the page you’re viewing, which is what happens - usually. I’ve noticed that if you have a prototype from the same file already open in another tab, then you will always re-run that prototype - regardless of the page you’re on when you hit the play button.
It took me a while to figure out why I kept seeing the prototype from Page A when trying to play the prototype from Page B: because Page A’s prototype was still open in another tab, and Figma was just switching to that tab.
A. Feature request: it would be nice if regardless of other tabs running prototypes, Figma would always show me the one I’m looking at when I hit the play button.
B. Bug report: Is this the expected Figma behavior? If so, see A.
C. PSA: If you notice that Figma keeps showing you a prototype from another page, it may be because the prototype from a different page is already open in a tab. Close that tab and you’ll be able to spin up a new prototype from the page you’re looking at. Also, see A.
Multiple prototypes in single file
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