Figma: tab groups arrive in the desktop app

Figma added tab groups to its desktop application on June 15, 2026. The feature lets users organize open file tabs into named, color-coded groups that can be collapsed and expanded without closing anything.

When creating a tab group, users assign it a name and a color. Groups can then be collapsed to a label — useful when switching between projects — and expanded to show all the tabs inside. Right-clicking a group name gives options to rename, recolor, ungroup (which keeps all tabs open), or delete (which closes all tabs in the group). Tabs can be dragged between groups as needed.

Designers working across multiple clients or product areas often keep a large number of files open at once. Before tab groups, there was no way to distinguish between a design file for one project and another for a completely different one without reading every tab label individually. Groups let teams organize by project, client, phase, or whatever label makes sense for their workflow.

The update is available to all users on the Figma desktop app and does not require any plan changes. It sits alongside the Figma Chrome extension for web capture, announced four days earlier, as part of a broader set of June 2026 updates Figma is shipping ahead of Config, their annual conference scheduled for June 23–25 in San Francisco.