Remove automatic absolute positioning in autolayout

I was about to create a new post because of this frustrating “feature” I haven’t seen it save time even once. This behavior is completely unpredictable and disrupts layouts that we expected to work seamlessly.

Before this new behavior, I relied on auto layout to organize my designs. I could confidently through a bunch of items, knowing that with just a press of Shift + A, everything would be as expected. However, now Figma attempts to predict how the layout should be, automatically positioning layers to absolute. It takes considerable time to fix each layer that ends up in a different component corner.

Please remove this feature or give us an option to opt out.

This is pretty aggravating, I know this is semantics, but it is particularly aggravating this is being addressed as a feature and not a bug. This isn’t the expected action and slows down the workflow considerably.

Please fix this ASAP.

Hey All, thanks for your votes and continued feedback!

Can you please provide examples of what you’re finding aggravating and are being unexpectedly absolute positioned via a screen recording?

With your examples, we can build a case to advocate for revisiting our current absolute positioning heuristics, especially how we decide to absolute position nodes when using the Shift+A shortcut.

Is this still an issue? As I’m pasting images into a frame, I’m noticing that some of them get absolute positioning auto applied and some don't. It seems like it may be related to how close to the frame’s edge I place the image when I first paste it in, but not sure. Either way, I can’t figure out how to turn off absolute positioning once it’s been auto applied. So if I resize or adjust my frame, some of my images move and others stay in place.