Changing color component, no change in instances

This might be something to do with the override being done to the instance.

I’d also check to make sure the layer name is the same on the icon contents. Sometimes that can also create issues if something is called “Union” and another is called “Vector”, etc.

Thanks for your reply but I think this is not about layer names. They have same name and structure.

Were you able to fix the issue or is it persisting?

Manual workaround is to add another variant, with property true/false (e.g. “Outline button: True/False”). After you change this property to false and then back to true color of icon will change to correct (updated) color.

does anyone have a solution for this? I’m having the same issue and is driving me crazy I had to do all of the instances and worked but just for one component and since they include text I can’t use the reset to all new properties because I don’t want to lose the texts.

Hey @Cecilia_Marnero, thank you for reaching out! The behavior you’re seeing might be expected.

From the screen recording @uixmate shared with us, I can say this behaviour should be expected. If you swap the nested icon of an instance and then change the fill color of the main component’s icon, that fill color will not persist to connected instances’ icons. Nested instance swaps will carry through the override but not changes to main.

As a general rule, once the icon of an instance has either been swapped or had its fill color change, the instance icon is now considered overridden. From there, any changes to the main component’s icon after this point will not persist to the icons nested within any overridden instances.

You can identify overridden instances by checking the dropdown menu in the instance swap section, shown below. If you see the option to “Reset all changes”, then the instance is overridden.

For your case “I can’t use the reset to all new properties because I don’t want to lose the texts”. Can you share a copy of your file with me? I can reach out to our support team and see if there are any workarounds they’d suggest.

Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can clarify anything further.

Thanks,
Gayani

Hi everyone!

I’m encountering a similar issue with a text component. I have a component with text set to Font Family A. When I change it to Font Family B, the component keeps the content but loses the preset color.

I’ll provide some photos for better understanding. I’ve already checked the layer names, and they all have the same structure and naming convention.

I’m having the same problem! Fix this, please!

Hey everyone, thank you for flagging this! I am actually unsure if this is an intended behaviour or not. Let me double check this with the team. I’ll get back to you once I receive a confirmation from the team.

Hey @Vitor_Silva and @Thiago_Rebello, are you able to provide a direct link to the copy of your file here, and invite support-share@figma.com with “can edit” permission so we can look into this further? My team needs a file link to investigate further, we’re not able to confirm if this is an intended behaviour based on the screenshot.

Note that users with @figma.com emails on your team don’t count towards your billing.

Thank you in advance!

I have same problem why color of swap instance doesn’t change color when ever i change color of swap instance in main component?so i upload my Figma file for considering.thank you.
test.fig (184.6 KB).

Thanks for flagging. This could be a potential bug, so we shared internally. When there is anything I can share with you, I will get back to you.

Thanks for your patience.
Toku

This is a huge problem for us. Components like sidebar navigation, icon button where teams often change the icon at instance level are not getting updated. Recently we moved colors from styles to variables, and this created a huge debt for product teams, now they’ll have to manually go an update each instance, otherwise dark mode will not work for them.
Please fix this.

Hey @Aman_Rathi1 I’m sorry that this has been a disruption to your work. I know that there is a bug ticket for this, but I don’t have a specific timeline available on when this will be addressed.

Thank you for your patience.

So for me, the icons to the sidebar menu were the ones not reflecting the colour of the actual component, so this is what I did: I had to create a new component with new icons and replace the initial ones I chose and that actually worked.

Has it been fixed? Some of my components and instances change color normally, some don't, but their drawing rules are the same.

Cheers for that, I had this issue popping up, and gave your potential fix a try, worked a charm!

Hi, same problem for me, every day! I have to reset components and re-embed all my icons and texts so that my instances return to the desired colors. It's unbearable and a significant waste of time every day.