Toggle visibility of on-canvas video playback controls

How do I hide the new on-canvas controls and labels for videos and gifs in design mode?
 

Please allow toggling off of video/gif controls and labels. It’s really distracting when designing. The play button and label are also in exactly the place I would put video controls and labels in the actual design.

omg pls fix this

Please add a toggle to hide these video labels and play buttons. I don’t need to have a persistent label for any frame with a video fill in design mode. This is different than Slides or Figjam. 

I have like 20 frames in my design file and all of them have video backdrops as the background of the design i’m working on. The whole file looks like a mess, and it’s also impossible to take screenshots of the webdesign to show to clients.

Please remove these labels. Impossible to use figma, can’t see anything.

@Celine_ We use video fill as background layers in designs to provide context for the surfaces we’re designing when viewing as prototypes. THOUSANDS of frames across HUNDREDS of individual files used by my team alone. We frequently toggle between design and preview view for crits, design reviews, exec reviews and user facing prototypes… 

I cannot remotely imagine a scenario where its a benefit to customers to force overlays OVER OUR DESIGNS and then not allow us to hide them??? How is it not a core principle for a design tool to not interfere with our frame canvases?

To be very clear: This change will now require designers to spend hours removing video fill layers, which on there own are exceptionally useful, with static images – just to hide Figma UI that should not be overlaid into our work spaces in the first place?

This needs to either be reverted, moved to outside of the parent frame area, triggered on mouse hover or entirely disableable.

What compounds this issue is that there is no way to swiftly create changes with the tools we’ve been provided. Unless I’m mistaken, there’s no filter for video fill option in the layers panel. and I would need to have a plugin approved through my company’s quality & IT teams if there were such a plugin to read the data at that level. 

The best accessibility tools are the ones that allow for customization per user, which this does not. 

Please also fix it as it is very confusing to have overlapping controls (the controls that we design and Figma’s controls)

And set it so that the ability to display Figma’s playback controls ARE OFF by default - so we won’t have to turn off one file at a time.

I think adding the video label and video controls to Design Mode in Figma is a big mistake.

At least in my experience, videos are used 99% of the time for prototyping, background elements, or UI loaders. This update just makes Design Mode feel cluttered. I’ve already had a client ask why there’s a video and a play icon in the design, which says a lot.

They don’t even disappear when you hide the UI, which makes it even more distracting.

I use multiple GIFs in my components, and now my entire design is covered with 'GIF' tags. This wasn't happening until yesterday, but it started appearing today. Is there any way to disable or hide these labels?

Veuillez s’il vous plait, ajouter l’option pour masquer / afficher ces players vidéos. 

This is absolutely ridiculous, How am I supposed to work on this??

It’s even show controls for videso that aren’t even on the artboard and cropped off by a wrapper? Also the devs are going to implement this as this is visible on the view mode which they use to develop from? What fresh hell is this now Figma?

This needs to be fixed ASAP.

How are we supposed to work with these controls covering our designs? It’s already disruptive in design mode, but it’s even worse when trying to take clean snapshots to share with stakeholders.

Right now, there’s no way to present designs properly without these overlays interfering. This directly impacts reviews, handoffs, and communication.

At the very least, we need an option to toggle these controls off, or have them hidden by default unless explicitly enabled.

Very bad. It's useful for identifying videos/gifs on the canvas, but it's terrible for Craft. It would be good to have a setting to hide them.

This has been hindering me quite a bit.

Worst idea ever 😂

Why? Why are you doing this? Why??

BAD

Please fix this ASAP. my entire canvas is impossible to use with the overlays everywhere. This is the most frustrated I’ve ever been using Figma in the last 8 years.

Fix this asap please! 

Need a fix for this asap please

Wild choice, Figma.

Ah this is so distracting! There is no way to hide these labels?

Is there a way to toggle this or have it come out in a more subtle way? I literally can’t work like this. The play buttons are incredibly distracting and are also hindering my process. This is urgent. Please.