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Stop Forcing Me to Open Figma at Login

  • October 22, 2025
  • 11 replies
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Ward_Josh

This is so annoying. I shouldn’t have to use the web version to disable this. FIGMA should allow me to turn this off in the settings. I don’t use Figma every day and I certainly don’t want it to open every time I log in. Clearly, this has annoyed several users but you fail to listen. 

STOP FORCING ME TO OPEN FIGMA AT LOGIN!!

11 replies

Arthur Grau
  • New Member
  • December 19, 2025

@Figma, this has been going on for years. Please turn this off, or create a setting that allows us to turn it off. No application should force itself on my system. This is terrible user experience. You have nearly ten thousand replies to threads related to this on your forum. TURN IT OFF.


Marc8
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  • December 22, 2025

That’s a system level issue - just remove it as a startup app/login item from your system settings ​@Arthur Grau ​@Ward_Josh 

 


Arthur Grau
  • New Member
  • December 22, 2025

I do that, but it's really poor experience to have to do this extra work on behalf of Figma every time the app has an update. I've encountered no other app in over 20 years that has this foundational problem. Just make a setting in Figma so I can turn it off. I shouldn't have to change my system settings on each update.


Ward_Josh
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  • December 22, 2025

@Marc8, we shouldn’t have to remove Figma from login items every time we update or launch the app. This is a very annoying user experience. I agree with ​@Arthur Grau, no other application does this. Not all of use Figma every time we boot or login into our machines. There’s thousands of people requesting this same thing. Just because it opens at login doesn’t mean we’re going to use it. We have other applications running that we need CPU usage for. Stop forcing this application on us. If I want Figma to open at login, I should be able to set it myself. Fix this.


Ward_Josh
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  • January 6, 2026

@Marc8 This is annoying.


Marc8
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  • January 12, 2026

@Marc8, we shouldn’t have to remove Figma from login items every time we update or launch the app. This is a very annoying user experience. I agree with ​@Arthur Grau, no other application does this. Not all of use Figma every time we boot or login into our machines. There’s thousands of people requesting this same thing. Just because it opens at login doesn’t mean we’re going to use it. We have other applications running that we need CPU usage for. Stop forcing this application on us. If I want Figma to open at login, I should be able to set it myself. Fix this.

Uninstall it and just run the browser application instead


Ward_Josh
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  • New Participant
  • January 12, 2026

@Marc8, that’s just as annoying. Why are you forcing people to open Figma?!?!


Ward_Josh
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  • New Participant
  • January 14, 2026

@Marc8, Why are you forcing people to open Figma?!?!


Marc8
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  • January 14, 2026

@Marc8, Why are you forcing people to open Figma?!?!

Not sure why you are following up - I don’t work for Figma


Marc8
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  • January 28, 2026

@Marc8 To uninstall it and just run the browser application instead is literally the dumbest suggestion ever. I know you don’t work for Figma, but uninstalling or using the browser isn’t a real solution. The issue is that Figma keeps adding itself to login items without consent and resets it on updates. That’s bad UX. There should be a simple setting inside Figma to control this, like almost every other app does.

If using the desktop app is causing an issue, how is using the browser version not a solution? I didn’t say it’s a catch all solution, it *may work* for some users.


Marc8
  • New Participant
  • January 28, 2026

@Marc8 To uninstall it and just run the browser application instead is literally the dumbest suggestion ever. I know you don’t work for Figma, but uninstalling or using the browser isn’t a real solution. The issue is that Figma keeps adding itself to login items without consent and resets it on updates. That’s bad UX. There should be a simple setting inside Figma to control this, like almost every other app does.

If using the desktop app is causing an issue, how is using the browser version not a solution? I didn’t say it’s a catch all solution, it may work for some users.

Raise your concerns on the master thread for this issue, dont @ me.