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JosephxBrick
Active Member
October 21, 2021

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

  • October 21, 2021
  • 68 replies
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Hi!

Turning off “snap to pixel grid” in a Figma Design file no longer changes snapping behavior when dragging frames around.

Whether this feature is turned on or off, a dragged frame still snaps to each pixel, no matter how zoomed-in. Note that some other objects (e.g., vector objects) still respect this setting. It’s just an issue with frames, components, and component instances. Note that If I group the frame, I then can drag the group to any sub-pixel location.

I’ve restarted my machine, restarted Figma, checked for updates, reloaded tabs, tried it in other design files. Tried it in the client, in Chrome, and in Safari. Same problem.

Can anyone else replicate this?

68 replies

Kristaps_Stikuts
Active Member
August 3, 2023

Bump.
Just this “intended feature” alone takes up 50% of my workflow of trying to find workarounds.

Stan5
New Participant
August 7, 2023

Tip: use Rectangles instead of Frames

Michael_Jones
August 11, 2023

Why? So frustrating when trying to making icons. Please fix!

Rubem_Pechansky
Active Member
August 23, 2023

Just make it optional. This will please both developers and users.

Alex53
September 8, 2023

Same Problem here, please just fix it quickly. Its really annoying if your willed to work exactly.

October 9, 2023

Whoever decided this shouldn’t be allowed to decide things, this is absurdly awful behaviour.

When you have settings that only function on certain objects but not others, it creates ambiguity, and creates an absolutely awful user experience.

This is NOT a feature, this is a bug

October 24, 2023

I’m having the same issue. This forced snapping makes illustration and icon creation nearly impossible. It does make some sense for frames, but it’s incredibly frustrating since the width and height of an object are still allowed to have decimal places. This means that some objects can be resized but then never aligned properly with other items.

I also agree with other commenters that whoever pushed for this change needs to be more mindful of the user experience. This issue forced me to open another app to edit the vectors, which is something I haven’t had to do in a very long time.

October 25, 2023

This is genuinely one of the biggest issues with Figma and a huge reason why I (and apparently many other users) can’t illustrate–among other things–in this program. Incredibly frustrating and adds so much unnecessary time having to work around it. There’s no reasoning that makes any sense for why selecting “turn OFF snap to pixel” would not, in fact, fully turn off snap to pixel. Absolutely a bug - not a feature nor expected behavior.

Chegou_Mercado
November 8, 2023

Hello! I have this problem. Any new update on the resolution?

Joshua_Wold
November 10, 2023

This is one of the reasons I have to keep Illustrator open. I can’t create proper illustrations or or icons when it insists on snapping to a grid. Sorry but I don’t have the time to waste to modify the X or Y coordinates manually.