I’d like this feature request to become a reality too. It’s tedious to have to click so many times to apply updates from the library to the target file/s.
Thanks!
Please Figma add this. I’m wasting tons of time publishing changes for myself as I’m the only designer in the company 
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This was my workflow a couple of months ago:
Alt + 3 > Tab > Enter > Shift + Enter
Super fast! Right? Alt +3 opened the Libraries panel, Tab would move the focus to the “Publish…” button, Enter to “click” it, then I’d press Shift + Enter to publish immediately.
It was great, until… Figma pushed the “Current File / Your teams / Other teams” tabs (and some other stuff in this panel).
Please create shortcuts to publish libraries without friction. Thanks!
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Count me in. As a primary maintainer of our corporate design system libraries I waste humongous amounts of time walking through hundreds of design files and review/receive updates.
I absolutely and vitally need an effort-efficient proces of mass updating and managing breaking changes using rule based approach, where overrides are kept in a pre-defined way during a batch update that is initiated from the library.
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It is possible to improve even bringing publish icon to the main level, but NO for 2 years. This publishing just kills me. I am back to Sketch because of this unfriendly UI.
I’ll pile on and offer a bit of context.
When you have multiple folks using a library, it makes sense to notify designers that the library has changed and give them the chance to accept (or not) those changes.
But this isn’t a problem when you are the only designer working on the library and the files that use its components.
The extra step when you publish, where it summarizes each change, is not necessary because I’m the one who just made the changes.
The extra step to accept the changes in the other files - again, not necessary because I’m the only designer working in them
So give us a “one player mode” that streamlines that process. I’m also going mad jumping back and forth between the library and my files, with all the extra clicks required just to see the updated components.
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This is a huge time suck for me. So I’m adding my +1
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Also adding my vote for this. It is painful.
Figma team: How about just putting this command somewhere in the Menus? We could then bind it to a keyboard shortcut, which is downright impossible right now.
Here is my suggestion for a shortcut. How about Command + S to “Save & Publish Library” like in the good old days? Easy to access on the keyboard too!
Jesus Chris, please! We need auto-update option for the files. Manually publishing library/changes isn’t that much of a chore, since you just do it from on file where you’ve created the changes.
But manually updating each file which uses the library is insanely time-consuming. If I update something regarding a color, or a text style, I would have to open and update something like 30 files, if I’m using one file per component approach.
Even with a simpler design system setup, you still need to go through at least 10 files and manually update each one. That’s just so much wasted time.
I understand that sometimes auto updates aren’t preferred, but that’s why we need an option, which can be set by a team leader, main editor or whatever.
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I’m with you, bro! Needed, Every single time i have to go back and forth
And for whatever reason this has changed for me to:
- Alt+3, 2) Publish, 3) Publish, 4) Switch file, 5) Alt+3, 6) Review, 7) Updates tab, 8) Update all
Then I might have to reload the presentation, because it doesn’t always update with the changes made.
This × 500,
Doesn’t always happen, but oftentimes it does.
So annoying! 
And did they just add tabs for ‘current page’ and ‘all pages’?
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Need this desperately, right now I spend SO MUCH time on updating multiple files we have it’s just ridiculous 
FIGMA, ARE YOU SERIOUS?
STILL NO LIB AUTO-UPDATE OPTION?
Still, in 2024, there’s no library auto-update option, after 12 years, since 2012.
Dear @Figma , dear @FigmaInc, dear Dylan Field @zoink, dear Evan Wallace @Evan_Wallet.
You need to include a library auto-updating option ASAP. There are only 2 main needs and expectations that users have from the premium account:
- Unlimited files
- Library cross-sharing among files
THEREFORE, A library auto-update IS A CRUCIAL FEATURE, A MUST HAVE, PRIORITY NUMBER 1 TO IMPLEMENT.
We the boys the designers usually have a main file, with all the core styles and components, which then are cross used throughout other files. It’s extremely annoying to publish the library everytime you make a single change to the main component or style.
Auto-updating should come by default. With the option to turn it off. Yes, make it available only in a Paid subscription.
Yes, you can invite me to help you with UX further on. Figma is a UI/UX design tool and therefore should be at the forefront of UX quality. Such issues as this one are unacceptable for such a loved best product worldwide. 
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A keyboard shortcut to publishing a library and another one to updating the components in the design file sounds like a good idea.
But the “auto-publish and update in all files” idea is just terrible. Library updates should be something that a designer controls.
Let’s remember that many of us work in setups where some development teams work on designs handed off to them and would NOT want these designs to change on the fly. Designs of a particular feature for the next releases should – this is where a product designer should decide.
Many of us also work in setups with multiple designers. Often, a change in a pattern needs to be aligned with them for the same reason.
So auto-publish-and-update would only work in two scenarios:
- a single designer in the whole organization doing the work before the development starts,
- a perfect setup with full design tokenization and a perfect split between “screens and flows” design and “library design”.
Still absent? 
What I want to know is why can’t I map a Mac keyboard shortcut to “Publish library…” Just let me do that and I’d be good.
Most recent quick publish is opt+3, click, click
I can’t believe this hasn’t been added yet, this workflow is really inconvenient
It’s kind of bananas that auto-publish (or a hotkey) isn’t an option already. Put it behind a warning if you need to, but as a one-person shop this is tedious.
@strwtchr It should be a toggle in the settings then
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