Remove automatic link formatting when pasting email addresses and links

Still frustrating. No updates have been made?

+1. working on editorial site redesigns. whilst it would be a great feature for custom cosmetic styling of link underlines (and the links being styled automatically), the function to hyperlink causes unwanted browser opening.

credit where due. Figma team constantly delighting me with new features which are totes toting my totes totem. x

+1 here, It really bad feature. Make everything so much harder since I have to manually remove the link 1 by 1 and change the text style back to the one that used to be. PLEASE REMOVE THIS USELESS FEATURE!!!

Hey everyone! Thanks for all your feedback.
We’ve launched a solution for this issue:

⌘⇧V (Paste and match style) will paste emails and links without turning the selected text into a link.

This doesn’t really solve the problem, the complaint we all have is that we don’t want the link at all, and pasting without a link, or bare minimum pasting without simply adding a link to the existing text should be the default. nobody right clicks to copy and paste, if CMD+C CMD+V doesn’t copy plain text and paste the text i copied, this issue as outlined in our complaint persists.

nobody has ever wanted an email address in Figma to be an active link which opens our mail client. we create prototypes, nobody expects email addresses to be links in a prototype. The default should be plaintext.

Thanks for the feedback.
We found that some users do use ⌘V to add URL and email links to text, and our goal was to not break the existing behaviors for these users, while allowing others like yourself to paste without the link using ⌘⇧V (you don’t have to right click to do this!).

Although it’s a fair point that pasting emails as links is not as common as pasting URLs as links, we would like to keep the interactions consistent between both link types.

In your original post you mentioned wanting to paste email/links without formatting using ⌘⇧V. This update allows you to do just that.

We’ll continue to monitor for feedback on this feature. We look forward to hearing from more users what they think. Thank you!

“Paste and match style” is a very confusing term. I was just figuring out how paste without hyperlinking and glanced right over the menu.
Did you at least run it by some users to see if the string made any sense? Or consider making paste without link a default behavior, and hyper-linking a secondary?

I’m very disappointed in how you handle user request; saying “Some users do use command+v therefore we’re keeping this extremely annoying feature as the main behavior” comes across as a generic and lazy way of handing genuine user frustration.

Figma team, If you LOVE this feature that much and can’t remove it how about make it optional? I mean just do it opposite as this useless update you just updated. cmd+v to JUST PASTE the link as a normal text and then cmd+shift+v for paste as a link that you love so much! Have you even do the user research here? 🫥

This doesn’t seem to have solved the issue at all. I am still getting links even when I use “Paste and match style”.

This dont work; if I copy text with a link from any page and try CMD + SHIFT + V, it does not paste anything on the text. I can only CMD + V paste a link to a text frame. So frustrating. I need the plain text paste.