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Andrey Tsarev
New Member
April 8, 2026
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Toggle visibility of on-canvas video playback controls

  • April 8, 2026
  • 34 replies
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Hello everyone!
Somehow Figma design started to show tags on video in canvas. Not in jam, not in dev mode or prototype, just basic canvas.

Didn’t find any options to turn it off, figma support agent didn’t help.
I have no HTML tags option in right sidebar, no annotations enabled and such, how can I turn them off?

 

Best answer by Celine_

Hey everyone! Thanks again for your patience and for sharing your feedback. I made sure to share it with the product team 🙂

Great news, Figma now has a design-specific behavior where the video tag and controls will only appear on selection. This is currently rolling out to all users these next days.

We hear you, and we appreciate you taking the time to share your thought! 🙏

 

34 replies

danboolekaj
New Member
April 8, 2026

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

Celine_
Figmate
Community Support
April 8, 2026

Hey everyone, Celine from Figma here, thanks for flagging this and sharing your feedback.

At the moment, there isn’t an option to turn off these on-canvas video/GIF controls.

I’ve shared your feedback and this thread with the team for visibility. I can’t guarantee any changes, but this helps inform future improvements.

cc ​@danboolekaj , for visibility, I’ve also merged your request into this thread so everything is tracked in one place. Thanks!

Lydia Jiang
New Member
April 8, 2026

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.

Andrew Morris
New Member
April 8, 2026

omg pls fix this

Ryan C
New Member
April 8, 2026

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. 

Lorisbukvic
New Member
April 8, 2026

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.

StevieLee
New Member
April 8, 2026

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

Sheaaa
New Member
April 8, 2026

@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.

Jazaye
New Member
April 8, 2026

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… 


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. 

Luongnd
Active Member
April 9, 2026

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.