Placing the toolbar at the bottom is difficult to use because my focus is usually on the upper half of the screen. Having to constantly look down to interact with the toolbar is really inconvenient and strains my eyes.
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I tried to live with it for a few weeks now but I give up. Toolbar position at the bottom of the screen is not workign at all. Thankful that the option to revert the UI is still avaialable. 
this is fixed in UI3 ASAP
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Would love to see the UI3 toolbar to be freely placed on the canvas. Much like Photoshop solves this, with a simple handle on the end of the toolbar. Right now for me it doesnāt work on the bottom half.
I would even go a step further and suggest that it can be placed back in itās old position, just like Photoshop handles all toolbars.
Whoās with me on this?
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I wish I could move the new bottom tool bar where ever I want in the interface. Would give me more freedom to design as I see fit.
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Please make it possible to move it to the top 
The current bottom placement makes it impossible to use Figma with on Macs with automatic hidden dock.
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I made a little demo of what I mean. With the handle people could control the position of the bars and make them āstickā to the sides (just like in Photoshop).
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This is only partially solving the issue. Unfortunately, the bottom toolbar is still floating and many of the problems listed with the floating side panels are also valid for the bottom toolbar.
Iām happy user feedback is being heard and appropriately integrated, but this announcing āfixed panels are backā when 1 out of 3 is still a floater is misleading.
Thanks for you feedback, @Rui_P_Cabrinha!
Iāve moved your reply to a more relevant topic where the UI3 team is tracking feedback and improvements for the toolbar.
The top half of the application is where most of the utility resides. Most apps position their tools across the top for this reason ā easy, quick, and efficient access. This is crucial for the most important actions in Figma.
Iād like to give UI3 a chance, but the movement of the tools to the middle of my workspace is so unbelievably disruptive I canāt imagine ever using it.
Iām already constantly squeezed for height - as youād expect, since the aspect ratio of a desktop screen vs. the long lengths of pages and mobile screens means that there is vertical scroll in 100% of my files.
The bottom of my screen is also the most visually cluttered part of my desktop by far. For any mac user using a bottom navigation bar (I presume most of us) youāre already overloaded with icons and navigation in the lower part of the screen. The way this is implemented means itās also in the middle of my design work, and the cognitive load of trying to make decisions in this space is brutal. I have to imagine Iām not the only one out here with ADHD, and not being able to move the tools to the top or to a less cluttered part of the screen where I am not constantly clicking to work / navigate is pretty deeply unusable. I keep trying to find an option to drag them to the top, or literally, anywhere else that isnāt overlapping and hiding a critical part of my workspace.
All youāve done is make my working area smaller for no good reason, and made the tools harder to use. I understand itās less distance for how youāre using it, but I never want my tools in the middle of my workspace and given the fact that Iām always going to be working on files with vertical height it will always overlap my work in a super disruptive way. This is the sort of thing you offer as an option, not the only way to work. I canāt even resize it so it gets in my way less.
I couldnāt even say if the other changes are good because this creates such an annoying obstacle I canāt use it.
Adding my perspective here.
Iām still struggling to get used to and navigate the new Figma UI. One major issue is the toolbar position. I don;t know but I canāt seem to locate it easily. It feels so out of place where I don;t expect it to be. After using Figma for six years, my workflow is tuned to having the toolbar at the top. It would be incredibly helpful to include an option to customize the toolbarās position, allowing designers to choose what works best for them.
I can;t add any videos here so this is one from Linkedin. [Not posted here to get followers just to show the usecase]