Modifying text layer content is slow and requires too many clicks

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Text requires significantly more effort to click into and modify than it should. Instead of trying to go into great detail and depth, I created this screen recording, which highlights exactly what I’m referring to.

Sketch 2025.3 Beta
MacOS 26.0.1
M1 Max, maxed specs

Important to note that the performance was much worse during the recording than it was while not recording, though it isn’t good in either scenario. Figma behaves very well regardless of the screen being recorded.

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Okay, this is worse than I thought unfortunately. Selecting between text layers is very buggy currently. Note that, while this [second] recording is me just randomly clicking, this bizarre behavior was perfectly evident while I was working in a normal manner. I suspect this is a somewhat separate issue, but there’s likely overlap with the text layer clicking responsiveness described above.

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This is something that’s been bugging me for a few years with Sketch. All of this time, I was thinking “well, sketch team is certainly aware of how superior figma’s text selection is. They must be working on it.”. Perhaps this is the limitation of macOS and the way it handles this behaviour. Perhaps not.

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This is somewhat out of our hands because it is native text editing/rendering and Apple have never improved upon this on macOS, but it’s something we can try to take a look at.

There might be something we can do, the fix may require a total re-implementation of text which we would be unable to do (right now).

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Not an apples-to-apples comparison, but I did a quick test on text selection in Keynote, and while inferior to Figma in term of functionality, the responsiveness is quite good.

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Really bizarre. I’m testing here, latest beta. Unless I’m missing something, I’m not having any major issues.