How to Opt Out of AI Training in Figma

Ever since August 15th of 2024, Figma has had the self-granted permission to train its AI models on the files people create in it. The setting is called Content training and it's on by default for the free Starter plan AND the paid Professional plan until a team admin shuts it off. There's no switch in your personal account settings, so the steps depend on your plan, and on Professional only the admins can reach it.

"Content", as Figma defines it, is basically anything you create in Figma or upload to it, down to comments and layer names, and Figma's AI terms add the prompts you give its AI tools and whatever comes back. Figma says it "de-identifies" what it trains on, so its models learn design patterns rather than your ideas. To keep your work out of its claws, the steps below get you there.

On the free Starter plan

Every Figma account can hold one free Starter team, and a team always has at least one admin, so if you're the only person on yours, you're its admin. Drafts follow the switch of the team they're in. Since October 9, 2025, every draft has lived inside a team, and where Figma moved the stragglers depends on the account. Most went into a Starter team, either one the account already had or a new free one. On a domain-captured organization with external collaboration controls, and on Figma for Government, they went to the organization's own Drafts space.

1. Sign in to Figma and open your Starter team in the file browser. If you belong to more than one team, the down arrow next to the team name switches between them.

2. Click All folders in the left sidebar.

   

3. Click the down arrow next to your team name and choose View settings.

   

4. Open the Settings tab, scroll to AI and click Manage AI settings.

   

5. Switch off Content training. Its label reads "Let Figma use your team's content to train AI models."

   

Figma describes one switch for the whole team, with nothing separate for FigJam, Slides, Sites, Buzz or Make, so it covers every file and draft the team holds.

On a Professional team

A paid Professional team starts from the same default. Its switch sits in Admin, which only the team's admins can open.

1. Sign in to Figma and open the team in the file browser.

2. Click Admin in the left sidebar.

   

3. Click Settings and scroll down to AI.

4. Switch off Content training.

   

If you're not an admin

If Admin isn't in your sidebar, you aren't an admin on that team, and there's no setting in your own account that does the same job. Click the down arrow next to the team name and choose View members to see who the admins are, since Figma marks them in the list. A team can have several, and any one of them can turn it off.

Figma also suggests moving your drafts into a team where content training is already off, such as your own Starter team once you've switched it off there. Right-click a draft in the file browser, choose Move file…, open the All tab, pick that team and its Drafts, then click Move. Starter drafts can only be shared with viewers, so the move suits work you do alone. Anything in the team's folders stays under the team's setting.

Who can turn "content training" off within each plan

The good news for Organization and Enterprise customers is they don't need to do anything. Figma says the setting can't be switched on for these accounts right now and that it'll let them know if that changes in the future.

What the switch doesn't reach

• Figma's AI tools keep working. Content training and access to Figma's AI features are separate settings. Switching training off doesn't take away Figma Make or the AI tools in the editor, and nobody has to leave training on to use them. On Starter, Professional and Organization plans there's no longer a switch that turns those tools off. Figma removed it when the tools came out of beta on July 24, 2025. Teams that had turned them off during the beta stay that way until an admin clicks Enable AI, and from then on they're on for good. On Enterprise, organization admins can still switch AI features off for the whole organization or for one workspace.

• Work made before you switched it off. Figma's help center and its AI terms both say that once an admin turns training off, new content and edits won't be used to train its models. Neither says what happens to content that was already there, so the switch is best read as covering what you make from that day on.

• Teams you don't run. The setting belongs to a team, not to you. Files and drafts you keep in a client's or an employer's team follow that team's choice, even if you've switched it off on your own Starter team. If you're on several teams, each one has its own switch to check.

• Free files in the Community. Figma treats the Community as a separate case. Free Community files carry a CC BY 4.0 license, and Figma says it fine-tunes a few features, including Visual Search, Asset Search and Add Interactions, on public free files. It also says it won't train any generative model that outputs designs on Community files until it has settled how attribution should work, and that paid files aren't used for AI training at all.

• Usage data. Figma's approach page lists a second kind of data it may use for AI. Usage data covers how often your content is accessed, technical logs and telemetry, but not the content itself. Figma says it only uses that data aggregated and de-identified, and the switch is only ever described as covering content.