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Stop automatically adding FigmaAgent to Login Items


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Pepijn Steijger

Absolutely insane that we should ask to please stop doing unwanted stuff to our systems


Gheorghe Avram

Continues to be an issue and continues to be insane.


ayarhouse
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  • 1 reply
  • April 9, 2025

TLDR - Use Balsamiq https://balsamiq.com/

 

I was recently asked to use Figma (again) for some mockups and came back to find out if this stupid problem was still being stupid. Yup. So Figma stays off my Mac.

I highly recommend everyone to use https://balsamiq.com/. It has great low pricing, and both cloud and desktop app options. Its much more low fidelity, but I’d rather have low fed and support a company that isn’t as abusive with its practices like Figma/Adobe.


Dom_Stubbs

This continues to be infuriating. It is the user’s right to decide what software needs to run at startup.

I’ve just tried resorting to the suggested bodge/workaround of deleting FigmaAgent outright and, having done so, I’m now getting an error that Figma is damaged and can’t be opened. So I think I’ll take the hint and just remove the app from my Mac altogether.


Vik043
  • New Member
  • May 4, 2025

This so frustruting, please fixe this, or at least give the option to opt out in settings! I am deleting my Figma desktop app because of that.


Patrik Sjöberg

Please stop installing the FigmaAgent as a Login Item every time we start Figma or when Figma updates. 

These types of agents are nothing but spyware no matter what they may also be used for. I can not imagine that it does not call home at least when it starts (to check for updates or whatnot), and thus you get a log of whenever a user start their computer! That is definitely not information that is crucial to your business. It is creepy. It makes your company look very bad!

  1. Install it once on the first install if you want to.
  2. DO NOT REINSTALL IT ON UPDATES EVER! If it is not in the list The user has removed it for a reason!
  3. Start the agent when Figma starts if needed (and shut it down when Figma closes) but I can not imagine that the Figma app itself can’t do whatever the agent does.

 


Victor Ude
ryanfigma wrote:

Temporary Work Around

Copied from stack overflow. All credits to orginal author marcaux

removing FigmaAgent.app
  • rm -fr ~/Library/Application\ Support/Figma/FigmaAgent.app
creating a dummy file
  • touch ~/Library/Application\ Support/Figma/FigmaAgent.app
make the file undeletable
  • sudo chflags -R schg ~/Library/Application\ Support/Figma/FigmaAgent.app

Now Figma will not be able to override that file when it wants to update it.

Also the login item does not get created for me again after removal at this point.

 

I can’t believe this is the only solution. Figma, do better.


Linus Lorentzen

This is just a great example of arocance from a big software company.


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