I don’t use Figma all the time, I don’t want it to run anything on startup.
It’s frustrating to manually remove Figma from Login Items, since it automatically adds itself there again.
It would be nice to have at least an option to disable it in settings, or even better - remove that functionality at all, since it’s not user friendly. I want control over what and when the apps do at my workstation.
P.S. If it’s needed for updates check - I’m more than okay to update on app start
Grow up people, It’s not using many processes and Figma is giving us free access to almost all its features, the contest you looking for is that your Figma agent must be installed manually for the browser and local font, don’t install the app it if you don’t want it, so basically its contest for you there as Figma tells you this Boldy in instalation page.
Figma gives designers the ability to make money, if you are not a designer or you don’t want to say abusive, contest, etc go and complain the politicians stealing information from you every day. not poor Figma which is a helpful tool to you for just your local font. This generation…
I prefer manually add a font than let Figma start every time on login or startup… It’s really dummy practice to remove Figma agent every time. I agree with people, which because of this small frustrating detail leave the app regardless its free. And it doesn’t matter if you use Figma everyday. I use 6h per day Excel for example. Does it mean, that Excel should start after login? No, never, I want to choose which app starts with login. This is really ridiculous topic.
Please remove this. While I can see the use case, forcing this time and time again on each update without an opt-out option is not a great user experience.
It’s just stupid that this is the default behavior and there’s no way to disable it. This is simply ridiculous and invasive.
I would rather use Penpot, but unfortunately my company chose Figma. For those who have the possibility to choose what to use, I recommend Penpot.
This problem has been around for over six months now, but there is still no fix. This reminds me of Adobe’s behavior. They also did the same thing with the Adobe creative cloud, which bypassed the user and worked in the background on the system. Also, to say that this is only for updating fonts is ridiculous, then open the code for audit so that users can be sure of this.
+1, makes me want to uninstall Figma desktop app
As a developer, I would never even consider doing this to my users. It is toxic application behaviour to be installing anything in the Login Items or elsewhere other than during an installer process triggered by a user, and it is thermonuclear to re-install that item once a user has explicitly removed it again.
Even if Figma incorrectly thought that their perceived need to have this item installed trumped user choice, at the very least it would be the most trivial step for Figma to record when it had installed this item once and not do it again if the user removes it.
More to the point, Figma could easily offer me the opportunity via a dialog to install this agent, and let me as a user decide if I want to. For the record, I have absolutely no interest in making my locally installed fonts available to your website so you can stop that right now. Secondly, if you can’t access my locally installed fonts within your native application you need to seriously review your tech stack decisions.
My company chose Figma so I will continue to use it but if I was ever asked my opinion on whether we should change to (insert the name of any competitor including any I had never heard of) I would immediately discuss how user hostile Figma’s approach is.
This is the most presumptuous development decision I have seen in I don’t know how many years. Figma is literally the only application that does this, our of dozens and dozens that I have installed and many I use on a constant basis. Personally, I don’t find it “unsafe” but I do find it extremely annoying. This should be removed.
There is another way to avoid that, but it involves a few steps and is rather hacky:
1. Move Figma to a disk image
2. Locate the Figma Agent
3. Create an Alias
4. Replace the Figma Agent on your System with the Alias
What this will do
On startup, the login item will try to launch FigmaAgent.app. But as this item now points to a non-mounted disk image, it will not work anymore. So FigmaAgent will no longer launch on startup.
Figma cannot replace the alias, it will not be removed with an update.
Downsides
Trust is a big deal when it comes to security and application deployment. This behaviour violates that trust and means desktop installations for a very expensive product are not possible and can even put contracts at risk. There are plenty of other free design tools, and access to training via YouTube nullifies your argument.
To the Figma owners, please consider and remove this annoying prompt, as you can already see how many users are annoyed by this prompt. I am sure there is a way around it without constantly reminding users. I think once is fine but not constantly or allow users to have the option to disable this.
Quite logical, right?
Add me to the list of frustrated users, this setting is something I’d expect from some dodgy software, not the leading app in the industry
Please remove this feature. Super annoying.
+1. Another developer here, completely annoyed by Figma constantly adding FigmaAgent to login items (even AFTER I manually remove it). Just load the fonts when the app starts up.
2024 and this shit show still hapening, im starting to think the Figma dev doing this on purpose to collect or send some data that is not mentioned anywhere, there is really no reason for Figma app to have a simple togle setting in the app to stop doing this.
Really pathethic from Figma management / devs this nonsense
Same here. I might understand the reasoning behind it but just give us checkbox to disable it in the settings. I dont even care that it runs in the background. I just dont want that “LoginItem Added” notification.
Wow! I was getting frustrated too, but seing so many people frustrating and the team doing NOTHING about that is more that enough for me too to stop using this app, anything but Figma politics. I understand FigmaAgent is lightweight, but forcing it at every update is messing with the user. You should put a setting for that and show a warning explaining the usage and what will stop working after the user DECIDES to uninstall FigmaAgent. I understand the Figma utility, but I mostly understand the users as I am one too. I don’t care about web Figma, and Figma at all, but I care about MY COMPUTER and what’s running on it, and you should NOT MESS with that, period. I will apply that patch above because I won’t wait any longer for your team to move on with your users (I am blown away how much you don’t give a single heck about that this so many users request).
This is absolutely annoying. You’re not being acquired by Adobe so you can relax and delete this Adobe like user-annoying behaviour. Please.
Another MacOS update, another time removing FigmaAgent from Login Items. Every. Single. Time. Please stop this from happening.
So frustrating. I have deleted the app
Is this still working?
Really? That’s great news! Thank god regulation, so why are they still pushing for that sc*my forced update which actually kills Figma usage for not reason?
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