Figma 4+

I’d love to use the preview feature but it continues to drain my battery and cause my phone to overheat making prototyping almost useless.

I just wanted to share my experience, it’s unfortunate but might help in future feature planning for the iOS offering.

I started doing design work and tried your competitor and Figma and Figma won hands down in terms of control of design elements and the ease of interface and pricing. I was a bit surprised to find however that the design tools don’t work on iPad. iPad doesn’t seem to be intended as a platform for designing but rather reviewing and commenting on existing designs.

For this reason I jumped ship to one of your competitors and have been using that steadily for months. Being frustrated by the lack of pen tool and specific custom design tools I ended up moving back to Figma happily on desktop. However, I would LOVE to be able to create designs using the iPad and have feature parity with the desktop toolset. This is actually holding me back from cancelling my competitors subscription purchase a Figma subscription. It’s unfortunate because I believe Figma to be the better tool, but I’m terms of portability I have to make a different decision.

Are there plans to build in design creation for mobile and tablet devices?

I’d have to say this limitation takes it from a 5/5 to a 3/5 :/

I have been using Figma for a while now. Desktop version is great, iPad version is buggy and often infuriatingly limited. No option to edit design files, and the figjam service is full of bugs, especially in split screen view . Figma has so much potential on the iPad, but for some reason is clipped. Magic Keyboard and wireless mouse on iPad seem to not want to communicate well with figma and often just stop working after about 2 or 3 operations.

It has so much potential, but definitely needs a lot more refinement to become what is possible.