Turning off "snap to pixel grid" should turn snapping off!

Thank you for confirming! Hope this can be changed to the expected behaviour in the future. Perhaps the options could be: “Snap to pixel grid”, “Only snap frames to pixel grid” and “Don’t snap to pixel grid”.

This is recent behavior that started last October. Frames once recognized this setting. What is the rational for calling this a feature and not a bug? It’s not as if frames cannot be positioned at sub-pixel coordinates.

Hey there,

We hear you, and while we do have a record of users who report that it stopped working last October, as of October 12th, 2022, the team confirmed that certain layer types (frames/instances/components/widgets) will always snap to pixel grid no matter what by design, going forward.

To be completely transparent, the team views this as the expected behavior. We’ll continue to pass along your feedback to the team for future consideration.

This is a problem, not a feature.
It’s a very important setting when working at pixel level (for instance when you need to export to other file formats).

I do not understand the poor decision. Why would users that explicitly turn off Snap still want stuff to snap?

Sounds like a “its a feature not a bug” moment from Figma.

We hear you @Stan5 and completely agree with and understand your frustration. Our team here can only relay the information we receive from the community to our developers and vice-versa.

With more feedback and Votes from the community, we can make a better case for this issue and force the team to reconsider the current behavior.

Maybe this usecase will help convincing the developers:
I am trying to draw a complex pictogram and need to be in full control while drawing.
While snapping to a grid is great when you are making a layout, it really sucks if you try to make a curve or the placement of an anchorpoint exactly right and the application won’t let you do it. Extremely frustrating.
I think I’ll start over in Adobe Illustrator, because I have no control in Figma and need precision.

Uff… This is a huge issue for creating illustrations and configuring logos, vector graphics, etc. Please fix this.

Hello! I’m yet another frustrated user 🙂
Despite of my love for Figma, I am forced to moving back to Adobe Illustrator because of the “feature” of not being able to turn off snapping.

This still frustrates me to no end. “Snap to Pixel Grid Disabled” should mean exactly that, no matter what type of node is selected. Apparently there is a Figma product owner out there who insists on dying on this hill. Please, someone talk them out of it!

Or at least, explain the rational, because – I don’t know – maybe there is valid merit to this decision.

Otherwise, dvaliao’s forwarded statement saying “Certain layer types (frames/instances/components/widgets) will always snap to pixel grid no matter what, so this is an expected behavior,” smells terrible.

This is so frustrating!