Shortcut to bring back floating panels in UI3

If you are on Mac, may you can try this ⇧ + \

Thank you for your advice.

I tried it on Mac and Windows.
On a Japanese Mac, pressing Shift + Backslash is the shortcut for “Show pixel preview”.
When I tried the same operation on a Japanese Windows, it became “Minimize UI”.
So I went back to my Mac and checked the shortcut for “Minimize UI”, and it was Shift + Command + @.

Because I’m on a Japanese Mac, my reply to your advice was a little confusing.
I’m very sorry.

Now, back to my original question.
My question is not about “Minimize UI”.
This Tuesday, the design of the left and right panels of Figma UI3 was changed.
(Please see the screenshot I attached in my first post)
My question is,
“Is it possible to go back to the UI3 panels before the design change?”

Maybe I’m the only one experiencing the new panel design?
If so, I think it’s a confusing question.

Hey @Masa1, thanks for clarifying!

The UI3 team confirmed that the ⇧ + \ shortcut is actually a feature to minimize UI where the property panel still floats, but to be transparent, this is not an option to bring back floating panels.

Due to the overwhelming amount of negative feedback regarding the floating panels, we won’t be bringing the floating panels back to UI3.

I’ll update your topic into the feature request though to give the community the opportunity to vote for a shortcut to bring back the floating panels as an option in the future.

More info on why we ultimately decided to move away from the floating panels here:

Hello dvaliao-san

Thank you for your detailed explanation and support!
Japanese users are also looking forward to the further development of Figma.

Actually this might be the best way to go about it! Make them shorter, narrower, dock them, float them, move them around, move them to an external monitor. Everyone gets exactly what they want.

The UI3 refresh felt so modern and fresh because of the floating panels. I work on a 27" screen, I liked them a lot 😦

this is a really bad thing btw 😬

i really liked the floating panels and having them gone now with the option to “bring them back” being insanely half baked really sucks

Ideally this is how shift + / should have been but everybody who likes the floating panels seems to have just been screwed out of them sadly. I’m going to guess the removal was fueled by people not liking change but that’s up to speculation.

Personally, I really liked them and really would like them back. Logged back into this forum just to upvote all of the threads asking for them back.

Thanks for the feedback, @pyxfluff!

I’ll pass this onto the UI3 team for future consideration. Don’t forget to vote up top! ☝️

Our teams use votes from the community to gauge overall interest and prioritize.

This is not the same as the standard float, just hides the bars…

what we want is a toggle to turn on and off the floating sidebars if we want always