Refresh thumbnail

Yep, I noticed that too 🙂

Just tried to set a thumbnail for the first time and noticed that it never updated. The only thing that worked was quitting (desktop app) and launching again which then showed the thumbnail. But, I do not accept that should be necessary to just refresh a thumbnail.

In the help doc, the steps shown to create one concludes with “Figma will update the file’s thumbnail and show the custom thumbnail icon next to the frame.”

But technically it doesn’t say when that will happen 😒

Same thing for me. I tried multiple times to do the two-step, Restore, Set as Thumbnail, moved the Cover to the first page, and nothing worked except quitting the desktop app and restarting. Sheesh.

I used to be able to restore the thumbnail and then select my artboard again but it doesn’t appear to work 90% of the time…

Please fix this Figma team!

+1: This just doesn’t seem to work reliably (or at all?). The thumbnails in Figma should update in real-time, for starters; it only updates for me if I quit the app and restart which seems impractical. When I searched for guidance to get a better working thumbnail, Figma recommended using “1920x960” which also does not work (crops the content). Then I noticed a “safe zone” recommendation within that Figma post of “1600x960” – but this ALSO does not work (still crops the sides). This has added up to a lot of work to get something so basic working – and it’s still not even displaying what I want without cropping. What’s the magic proportion to get a thumbnail to display without cropping my content? I tried copying and pasting the Playground thumbnail and it still didn’t work for me.

I use these for file status, etc so very important that it updates quickly. For me the delay is too long and that trick works to reset the thumb but kind of annoying.

Experiencing this issue as well. Thumbnail not updating. It seems to grab the canvas color of the top/first page page but vectors from other pages 🤔

Same problem here. It’s not just annoying it’s crucial for a work environment that focuses on “collaborative working”, that changes made by a team member are instantly visible to other team members. We already had problems in the past because of thumbnails not updating. Please fix this asap.

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Very annoying issue and inconsistent interaction patterns. Sometime it works, sometims it won’t work the whole week. If a more consistent auto refresh is not an option, manual refresh would be very appreciated

We’re using thumbnails to show the status of our design tickets.

Especially when you have a large amount of tickets in a project, it’s super annoying when those thumbnails show the wrong status. Is that ticket in development or still in handoff? Who knows …