This version brings bug fixes and minor improvements, plus all the great features from our Athens update.
Changes (1)
We’ve updated how we convert Artboards to Frames — this happens when you open an older document after this update. If an Artboard didn’t have “Adjust content on resize” enabled, we’ll now set a fixed height and width for its contents, and pin them to the top-left corner. This preserves the previous behavior where resizing the Frame won’t proportionally affect the size or position of its contents.
Important: This change does not affect documents that you have already opened in a previous Athens update. It only applies to older documents you open in v2025.1.2 or later.
Fixes (1)
Fixes a bug that caused some plugins to stop working.
Our first update of 2025 is the largest we’ve ever shipped. It introduces an all-new layout tool — Stacks — and some big foundational changes in the form of Frames. It also brings major improvements to the Command Bar, and so much more.
We’re calling this release Athens. As a city, it’s the birthplace of democracy — something we greatly value — and home to some of the foundational architecture of the modern world. And this release is all about foundational architecture.
Introducing: Stacks
Yep, it’s finally happened. An all-new layout tool in Sketch. If you know auto layout in Figma, or stacks in Framer, this is our take on it.
With Stacks, you can create anything from buttons that grow or shrink to fit their labels, to entire interfaces with nested layouts that adapt to container size or content.
You have full control over a stack’s size, padding, alignment, distribution, and styling. You can also choose if items in a stack have a different alignment, fill all available space, or ignore the layout altogether.
Stacks are only half the story in Athens. We’re also introducing Frames — a new container that replaces artboards, made for UI design, that works hand-in-hand with stacks.
You can nest Frames, style them with multiple properties (no more background layers!), set resizing constraints for their contents, or give them a stack layout.
For icons and illustrations, we’re introducing a different container type — Graphics. They have a fixed size, and their contents will always resize proportionally. They also offer a more focused Inspector, with no pinning or resizing controls.
Groups are sticking around, too. You can use them to organize layers and keep them together without additional properties.
We’ve all struggled with those deeply nested menus when inserting components, so we’ve replaced them with something far more efficient. The Command Bar now makes it easy find and insert Symbols Y, Text Styles ⌃T, Templates, Layer Styles and Color Variables from the Command Bar S. You can also swap any component you’ve selected with ⌥⌘R.
We’ve replaced the Inspector menus for swapping Components with a new popover inspired by the Command Bar. It shows more useful information, supports keyboard navigation for Libraries, and comes with a number of useful shortcuts.
We’ve improved Symbol thumbnails with customizable dark or light backgrounds, added rich previews for other component types, and new keyboard shortcuts to quickly drill down through your Libraries.
We now support basic styling for text overrides. You can use Markdown-like syntax for *bold*, _italic_ and [underline] in the Inspector, or ⌘B, ⌘I and ⌘U for text you’ve selected on the Canvas.
Alignment and text color are now optional properties in Text Styles. If you’ve found yourself with lots of text styles covering each alignment option in your Libraries, this one is for you. You can exclude these properties from the Components view, and from the More menu under a Text Style’s name in the Inspector. You can set defaults for these properties in Sketch’s Settings.
You can now adjust the sizing behavior for a text layer’s width and height separately, with a choice of either Fixed or Fit (formerly Auto).
Components and Libraries
You can now exclude specific Symbols from showing in the Command Bar, Insert and symbol swapping menus. Ideal for placeholders, Symbols you only ever want to nest, or screen-size Symbols you don’t want to swap to.
In the Components view, there’s a new option to change the thumbnail background for your Symbols — ideal for those lighter icons that almost disappear on a gray background. You can pick between dark, light, or app appearance.
We’ve added an option to select or deselect all Components in the Component Updates sheet when you have a Library update. This should make it easier to update specific Components.
There’s a new filter option in the Libraries panes of Settings and Document Settings to only show Libraries that are enabled.
We’ve added a checkbox to quickly enable or disable Libraries from their thumbnails in the Workspace Window.
You can now choose whether or not to include corners in your Layer Styles — making it easier to keep your corners consistent across images, Artboards and regular layers.
When you replace a regular layer with a Symbol, we’ll now respect the Preserve Current Dimensions setting that you’ll find in the Command Bar’s Symbols view.
When you create a Symbol from nested layers and choose not to send it to the Symbols page, we’ll place the Symbol Source closer to your selection. Also, if a Symbol source is flipped or rotated, its instances will now respect that — just as you’d expect.
We’ve made Symbols easier to identify. On the Canvas, you’ll now see a purple hover and selection box for Symbol Sources, instances, and layers inside instances. In the Layer List, Symbol Sources have bold purple labels, while selected sources and instances get a purple background. These colors stay the same no matter your system accent color.
Sizing and Pinning
There are new “Fixed” and “Relative” sizing options for the Width and Height of all layers. These replace the “Fix Size” constraint. Layers which had the Fix Size constraint enabled on a given axis will be “Fixed” on that axis. Those without the Fix Size constraint enabled will be “Relative”.
There’s a new “Fit” sizing option for the Width and Height of text layers, which replaces the “Auto Width”, “Auto Height” and “Fixed Size” options. Layers which were Auto Width now have “Fit” Width and Height, where those that were Auto Height will have “Fit” Height.
There’s a new a context menu for the pinning controls in the inspector: if you secondary-click, you’ll see actions to Pin All, Pin None, Auto Pin, or Reset to Default. These actions are also available via the Layer menu and the Command Bar.
We‘ve added some conveniences to the pinning control in the inspector. If one end of a layer’s axis is pinned, ⌥-click the pin will flip the pin to the opposite end instead of pinning both. If none or both ends are pinned, ⌥-click will toggle both at once.
When you resize a layer with locked proportions — or resize while holding shift — we now make sure that layer always gets resized by full pixels, even if that means relaxing its proportions slightly.
Resizing layers pinned on just one end of an axis — either with ⌘-Arrows, or via the W/H Inspector field — will now resize the layer from that end. For example, a button pinned only to the right will stay put on the right if you make its width larger.
You can now pin both ends of layers that don’t have a Fixed size (Fit or Relative). The layer’s sizing will remain as-is, and editing the layer’s contents won’t change it either. However, resizing its parent will make the layer Fixed size.
You can now adjust the size of a container while ignoring constraints of its contents by pressing ⌥⌘-Arrows. This works the same as ⌘-resizing it on the canvas.
You can now use “Size to Fit”, from the Arrange menu, for both Text layers and Frames.
When you use the alignment actions to align a single layer to the edge or center of its parent, we’ll adjust its pins to match that alignment. For example, if you align a layer to the right, we’ll pin in to the right.
Styling and arranging
New Text Styles now exclude color and alignment by default. Similarly, new Layer Styles will now always include corner styling by default. You change these defaults as preferences in Settings > Layers. Copy and pasting a Layer Style will follow this corner styling preference, while holding ⌥ while pasting will do the opposite.
You can now adjust the corner radius and styles on any image — no need to create a mask anymore!
When you apply a color to your selection using the eyedropper ⌃C, it still changes the visible color of your selection, but if your selection doesn’t have a solid color already, it will add a new solid fill. Or, if every style with a solid color is disabled, it’ll enable and change the first one.
Rotating layers is now that little bit more convenient. Just drag close to a corner, no Command key required.
The rotation field in the Inspector now shows more accurate values, up to two decimal digits.
You can now ⌃-click on a ruler to insert a guide while ignoring snapping. You can still right-click on the rulers themselves, or ⌃-click on the padlock at the origin of the rulers, to open their context menu.
We’ve improved our rendering of inside borders, outside borders, and inner shadows for text and shapes that use the non-zero winding rule.
You can now quickly swap the colors of borders and fills on any layer you’ve selected via Layer > Style menu, Command Bar, or by pressing ⇧X.
Inserting a frame or graphic on an empty canvas will place it at 0,0 coordinates.
We’ve combined the Group and Ungroup toolbar buttons into a single button with a menu that allows you to group your selection in a frame, graphic, or group, stack your selection, or ungroup it.
“Bring Forward“ and “Send Backward” now move the selected layer relative to the layer visually in front or behind it (in the current container), saving you from moving it multiple times to get a visual outcome. As a result, the layer may skip a few layers at once in the Layer List.
Workflow and productivity
We’ve updated the Insert toolbar button to give it two functions. The Sketch diamond on the left opens the Command Bar, while the chevron on the right opens the current menu. This menu no longer includes Components as you can use the Command Bar to find and insert those. There’s also a new, single-key shortcut for the Command Bar — S (slice is now E). ⌘K also still works, or you can set a custom shortcut in Sketch’s settings.
You’ll now find an “Insert Symbol Instance” action in the contextual menu and Command Bar to inset an instance of any selected Symbol source.
The Comments toolbar item has a new detachable panel showing all comments and replies in your document. You can filter between all, open and unread comments, and click on any comment to find it in your document. The toolbar item itself also shows an unread count.
There’s a new toolbar item that shows a QR code to open your document and mirror it in the iOS app, along with options to share its link.
When you duplicate a layer many times consecutively, we now offset each new layer based on the distance between the previous layer and the one before that. A tricky one to describe, but try duplicating a layer, offsetting it a bit, and then duplicating again. You’ll see what we mean!
There’s a new “Paste and Replace” option to replace your current selection with the pasted layer. You can find via Edit > Paste and the contextual menu, or use the shortcut ⇧⌘R.
You can now set smaller nudging values in Settings > Canvas, such as 0.25. The minimum value is 0.01.
We’ve added shortcuts ⌥1 through ⌥4 to change the point snapping when using the pen tool. The numbers visually map left-to-right to the snapping control in the inspector, like using 1 through 4 to change the point type.
When you click on HEX field in the Inspector or Color Picker, we now automatically selected the value, making it just that little bit quicker to paste or type a new one.
When you import or paste and SVG or SVG code, we now create a Graphic matching the SVG’s size.
Clicking the Canvas in text edit mode will finish text editing, but now the text layer you were editing will remain selected.
You can now hide and lock top-level frames just like any other layer. If you hide one, it won’t appear or be accessible in the web app.
Pressing Enter on a container now selects all its children (except locked or hidden ones) instead of just the topmost child. With all children selected, you can still press Tab to narrow your selection down to the topmost child.
We’ve made it easier to select nested instances in the Overrides panel. Now, clicking the → button next to a nested instance name will select it directly, instead of taking you to its source. Need to jump to the source? Just ⌥-click the button.
Holding Space now temporarily hides all selection boxes, handles, grids and guides to help you see your design more clearly. This works whether you’re actively panning the Canvas or idle.
We’ve added an Auto Pin feature, which automatically sets the pins of your selection based on its size and proximity to its parent’s bounds. To use it, click the A button in the center of the Inspector’s pinning controls, press ⇧A, or find Auto Pin in the menus and Command Bar.
When you paste or duplicate a layer and that places it outside the viewport, we’ll now center the canvas on it so you can see it.
When using the Frame (previously Artboard) or Graphic tools, you can now click to insert a Frame or Graphic with the dimensions of the last top-level Frame or Graphic you interacted with. This makes it easier to quickly draw containers for many screens, components, or icons with the same size.
The marquee selection tool (press or hold X) now selects layers at any hierarchy level, so you don’t need to press ⌘ as well to drill down. It also ignores the layer you started the marquee on. This is handy for selecting multiple layers inside frames without selecting the frame itself.
We’ve made Select All (⌘A) more consistent. If a top-level layer is selected, it selects all other other top-level layers too. If nothing is selected, it selects all top-level layers. Finally, if all layers in your current hierarchy level are already selected, it now selects all layers one level above — you can keep pressing ⌘A to broaden your selection one level at a time.
Renaming multiple layers with a sequence token now includes the option to choose which letter or number it starts with, and how it increments with each layer.
We’ve added a new setting to choose whether new layers you draw while holding ⇧ will continue to have locked proportions. You can find it in Settings > Layers > Drawing Layers.
Templates
We’ve added new Frame Templates reflecting more recent Android devices, with a consistent scale and new thumbnails. We’ve also removed older devices.
Template documents are now available to those of you using a Mac-only license, making it easier to kickstart your next project. You’ll find them in the Documents Window under the Design Resources tab.
General improvements
You can now enable scrolling in prototypes for any frame. For top-level frames, you can choose whether the scroll viewport is defined by the frame size (with out-of-bounds layers scrolling within it) or by a custom size (with your taller/wider frame scrolling within it). You can also set nested frames to scroll, with their full width/height scrolling within the bounds of their parent frame.
You can now add a custom Canvas color for individual pages in a document. You’ll find this option in the Inspector when you have nothing is selected, where you’ll also see the option to change the document’s color profile. Custom canvas colors will show for anyone viewing a page. Pages without a custom canvas color will continue to respect your preferences in Settings > General > Canvas.
Our app icon now adapts to your system’s light or dark mode preference. You’ll also find a few more icon options in Settings > General. When you think you’ve found them all, keep going.
When you open a page in a document for the first time, we now zoom to fit the entire contents of the page in your window. After this, we’ll remember your zoom level and Canvas position for that page, as long as the document remains on your device and you’re not downloading a fresh version from a Workspace.
Working with prototyping flows should now feel a little faster, as we’ve been making the Links you see between Artboards more performant.
We’ve improved the responsiveness of the modifier keys when you’re making a marquee selection.
We’ve improved performance when swapping between complex Symbols.
Changes (28)
With this release, we no longer support macOS 13 (Ventura). We update our support of macOS versions to continue improving Sketch with the latest Apple frameworks and APIs.
Keyboard shortcuts
The ⌘L shortcut now applies Stack Layout to your selection instead of Smart Layout, and ⌥⌘L removes it.
We’ve changed the shortcuts for Transform and Rotate, which are now ⌃⌘T and ⌃⌘R, respectively.
We’ve removed the shortcuts for Rename All ⌥⌘R, and for Rename with Last Format ⌥⇧⌘R. If you need quick access to these actions, you can search for them with the Command Bar S or set your own shortcuts via System Settings.
After you draw an Artboard we no longer automatically enter renaming mode. Instead, you can double-click its name on the Canvas, or press ⌘R.
We’ve had to shuffle some shortcuts to make way for new features. Toggle Fills and Toggle Borders are now ⇧F and ⇧B, respectively, while finding/searching layers is now ⌥⌘F.
We’ve added a new shortcut — ⇧⌘F — to resize a container or text layer to fit its contents.
When you use a layer with borders as a mask, those borders now visually appear above any masked content. To have borders appear below the masked content, use two layers; one with the borders, and another above to act as the mask.
Holding ⌘ when resizing a group or frame will now ignore any resizing constraints. If you previously used ⌘ to disable snapping, you should use ⌃ now instead.
We’ve changed the modifier key to ignore snapping when dragging, drawing, or placing objects from ⌘ to ⌃. Note that you can only press ⌃ after you’ve started dragging or drawing a layer.
We’ve removed the various Align in Artboard shortcuts. You can still ⌥-click the alignment buttons at the top of the Inspector to align your selection to the top-level frame (previously Artboard).
We’ve added the shortcut ⇧⌘P to Round to Pixel.
Inspector
The X and Y coordinates of a layer are now relative to their closest frame, instead of the top-level frame (previously Artboard).
The Layout panel in the Inspector is now more compact if you have Groups or Artboards without Smart Layout. To apply Smart Layout, press the + icon (doing so defaults to Horizontal). To remove, press the trash icon.
For layers that support Tints, we’ve moved the Tint controls to the bottom of the Appearance panel in the Inspector.
We’ve removed the Layout pane from the inspector in the Components View. You can continue to edit layout properties for a Symbol Source in the Canvas view.
Styling
If you apply a Tint to a group, it will not affect that group’s shadows (if it has any). Tints will now only affect the contents of a group.
We’ve changed the default style for new shapes; it’s the same gray fill, but no longer has a border. If you have set your own default style for new shapes, this change won’t affect it.
We’ve changed some of the defaults for new style properties. Adding a new fill now always adds a solid fill, and adding a new border will now add an inside border (but still center on open paths, and outside on text). We’ve also tweaked the default shadow styles.
When you create a new Text Layer, it will now match the styles of the last Text Layer you edited in that document. Previously, styles carried over between documents, including new ones.
General changes
When you create a symbol, you can no longer choose a Layout from the dialog. You can add layout to containers before turning them into a symbol, or add it after to the symbol source.
You can no longer adjust the origin point of rulers by dragging them. If your documents have adjusted ruler origins, they still exist, and you can reset via the context menu (Control-click the corner where the two rulers meet).
We’ve removed the “Select Group’s Content on Click” feature. All groups now behave the default way: use a double-click to select a group’s contents, or ⌘-click to ignore all groups when selecting.
The different view options to show or hide collaborator cursors, names, and selections are now a single “Show Collaborators” option, available everywhere the previous options were. We’ve also removed the “Show Layer Selection” and “Show Layer Highlight” options from the view menu.
Text layers set to Auto Width will now show resize handles on the four corners of the selection box, not at the center of their left and right edges.
We’ve removed the Layer > Style > Fill Options and Layer > Style > Border Options menu items. You can still access these options via the cog icon in the Fills and Borders Inspector panels.
Top-level frames (previously artboards) no longer behave like sticky headers as you scroll. Instead, they now scroll like any other layer but we’ve made their labels bold to keep them easy to spot.
If you have a group selected, Paste will now paste inside the group, not as a sibling of the group, so it’s consistent across all container types (Group, Frame, Graphic).
Fixes (22)
Fixed a bug that meant it wasn’t possible to resize a group inside a Smart Layout group using Command-arrows on your keyboard.
Fixed a bug where using a Symbol or group as a mask could cause the masked content to behave unexpectedly.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused masked layers to render incorrectly in the web app and prototype player.
Fixed a bug where moving a group in or out of another group could fail to update tinting correctly.
Fixed a bug that caused Sketch to miscalculate the size of PDF exports in some cases, which could affect how they look when opened in other apps.
Fixed a bug that prevented you from immediately following a collaborator who had initially disabled, then later re-enabled, their option to be followed.
Fixed a bug that caused the Scale tool in the Inspector to close unexpectedly in some situations.
Fixed a bug that caused the ruler tick marks to display incorrectly.
Fixed a bug where Workspace document thumbnails would sometimes not display correctly.
Fixed a bug that caused a nested Symbol that used Smart Layout to resize incorrectly if it contained a text layer with overridden text that caused it to grow vertically.
Fixed a bug that caused Color Variable names not to update in certain cases where they were referenced in a Library nested two or more levels deep.
Fixed a bug on Workspace documents that would deselect the reference layer when you aligned one layer to another.
Fixed a bug that incorrectly placed a new Slice you created from a selected Artboard.
Fixed a bug where using the c, m, b or r modifiers in the Width and Height fields in the Inspector would not work correctly for Artboards.
Fixed a bug that caused layers you scaled to be misplaced or mis-sized in some cases.
Fixed a bug that meant resizing a rotated layer using its corner could only resize one edge.
Fixed a bug that meant custom keyboard shortcuts using ⌥ as the only modifier wouldn’t work.
Fixed a bug that meant you could resize a rotated layer much further away from the layer’s bounds than you’d expect.
Fixed a bug where clicking on a handle or edge of a layer, without dragging to resize it, would deselect it.
Fixed a bug where pressing N to add a comment wouldn’t work in non-Latin keyboard layouts. It’ll now work when pressing ر (Arabic), Т (Russian Cyrillic), N (Greek), or מ (Hebrew).
Fixed a bug where pressing option once you’d already started dragging a layer — to duplicate it instead of move it — would move the original layer to the front.
Fixes a bug where flattening a layer inside a group with shadows would duplicate the shadow.
Smart Animate looks for layers with the same name across different Artboards and animates their changes. If you’ve used Magic Move in Keynote, you’ll pick this up fast! You can control movement and timing with easing and duration options — for Smart Animate and all other transitions. There’s also another new transition type — dissolve — which adds a smooth fade between Artboards or Overlays.
You can now easily replace Libraries in your documents, replacing Components with the same names and locations. It makes designing for dark and light modes or adapting a site for different sub-brands faster and easier. You can choose whether replacing a Library will affect all Components, a specific type or just a selection.
It’s been a long time coming, but you can now use Color Variables in gradients. Now, when you update a Color Variable, it will update any gradients that use it too. There’s not much more to say with this one except that we’re glad it’s here, and we hope you are too!
You can now use the Mac app in Spanish and interact with the UI in a more familiar and intuitive way. To use Sketch in Spanish, make sure you’ve set Spanish as your Mac’s primary language — or set a custom language for Sketch in System Settings.
You can now choose which Artboards to export and whether you want to display their title or render them as bitmaps. For Workspace documents, you can also export all comments — either as part of the PDF or as a CSV file.
Previously, you could only show and hide Overlays while hovering in prototypes, but now you can also transition from one regular Artboard to another on hover. This pairs nicely with the new Smart Animate options!
You can click your middle mouse button (if you have one) and drag to pan around the Canvas.
Di ‘hola’ a diseñar en español. A partir de ahora, podrás usar Sketch en español e interactuar con la interfaz de manera más familiar e intuitiva. Para poder utilizar Sketch en español, asegúrate de que el idioma principal de tu Mac es también español o, si quieres utilizar tu Mac en otro idioma, configura Sketch en español en Ajustes del Sistema. Echa un vistazo a las instrucciones de Apple para ajustarlo todo a tu gusto.
We now remember and maintain the scroll position of scrollable areas with the same name and position in the Layer List hierarchy across different Artboards when you switch between them in prototypes.
You can now click and drag to scroll within scrollable areas when you play a prototype. We’ve also made sure that scrolling a horizontal scroll area that’s nested within a vertical scroll area no longer causes any unexpected vertical jumps.
We’ve added HEIC as a new export option. You can export up to 8192 x 8192 in size in this format.
You can now set a hidden layer as an interaction target and it won’t be triggered until you make that layer visible.
You can now replace the underlying Library for all Components in a document (or a specific Component type) by heading to Edit > Replace Library. This replaces all components with the same name with their counterpart in the replacement Library. For more control, you can select specific Components (usually Symbols) on the Canvas and choose Edit > Replace Selected Components to replace the underlying Library for just those Components.
We’ve made some big improvements to PDF exports. You can now choose which Artboards to export, optionally add Artboard titles and include comments (for Workspace documents only) and choose to render Artboards as bitmaps for more precision. Also, for Workspace documents, you can export all comments as a CSV file.
You can now double-click on an Artboard’s name on the Canvas to rename it! One of those things that you didn’t realize you needed until you start using it.
We’ve added new display options to the prototype player in the Mac app. You can now choose to display any prototype at full width, meaning the prototype will resize so its width always matches the player window’s width. As a result, prototypes you play in the full width display mode with a larger height will scroll vertically.
We know it’s been a long time coming, but you can now use Color Variables in gradients. Nothing else to say about this one, we’re just glad it’s here and hopefully you are too!
We now support exporting bitmap images up to 65535 x 65535 in size. WebP images are limited to 16383 x 16383. You can export PNG and TIFF at much larger sizes, limited only by your Mac’s hardware and memory. Exporting images at these larger sizes will take longer.
We’ve made it easier to add and enable the most popular Apple UI design Libraries directly from the Libraries pane in Sketch’s settings.
The Workspace window now remembers your previous sidebar selection (Recent Documents, Templates, Libraries, etc.) when you close and re-open the window or quit and restart Sketch.
You can now hide any layer within a Symbol instance, just like you would hide a layer in a group, for example.
You can now switch between different Component types in the Insert window by holding Command and pressing the numeric keys 1–4 to move between the different views.
Changes (1)
With this release, we no longer support macOS 12 (Monterey). We update our support of macOS versions to continue improving Sketch with the latest Apple frameworks and APIs.
Fixes (17)
Fixes a bug that stopped hover effects from triggering inside scrollable areas.
Fixes a bug that caused some non-Roman glyphs to disappear from text layers when you applied gradients, masks or converted them to outlines.
Fixes a bug that caused Sketch to crash when you switched to the Symbols page of a document with an extremely large number of Symbols.
Fixes a crash that occurred if you attempted to import an SVG which contained an offset value of more than 100%.
Fixes a bug that caused the export preview in the Inspector to appear pixelated in some cases.
Fixes a bug that caused the handle on the color picker to move slightly when you clicked on it, making it difficult to lock its axis as you moved it by holding Shift.
Fixes a crash that could happen if you quickly deleted lots of gradient presets in the color picker.
Fixes a bug that could cause the prototype player to lose sync with the active document window when you switched between different document windows on different displays.
The Inspector should now feel faster when working with Symbols that contain a large number of text overrides.
Fixes a bug that could cause a text override you had just reset to revert back to its override when you changed your selection.
Fixes a bug that caused Sketch to hang when you attempted to export WebP images via the Share button in the Inspector.
Fixes a bug that could cause Sketch to hang when you resized lines that appeared to have a height of zero.
Fixes a bug that could cause layers using the Auto-link to Right Artboard prototyping destination not to show their link to the right Artboard on the Canvas.
Fixes a bug that stopped Sketch from respecting the correct Smart Layout settings when you pasted a layer into a nested group. Previously it would adopt the parent group’s settings, but now correctly adopts the nested group’s settings.
Fixes a bug that meant some sections of the Workspace window would not show a proper empty state when there were no items to show.
Clicking on a locked layer inside a group will now select the parent group. Previously, if you clicked on a locked layer inside a group, nothing would happen.
Fixes a bug that caused the location of the Open from Your Mac dialog to switch to an Application Support folder with cached versions of Workspace documents, which wasn’t too helpful.
Following our refresh of the web app’s document view, we’ve given the rest of the UI a redesign as well. Along with a new font (Inter, if you’re wondering), we’ve also redesigned the sidebar, overhauled settings with dedicated pages, and improved the hierarchy of project, document, and collection thumbnails.
Developers using the web app for handoff can now export any layer in a document without it being set to export in the Mac app first. They’ll have full control over things like size/scale, format and file naming conventions — all within the browser and on the fly.
Make your prototypes scroll in any direction — from a simple row of cards, to a full size map. Set up scroll areas in seconds and adjust them right on the Canvas.
We’ve added new hover and press interactions, alongside the classic tap/click. Use these to trigger overlays, or even hide or show specific layers (that’s also new with this update). There’s also a new toggle option to show and hide a layer or overlay with each click or tap.
Press ⌘K in any document to open the Command Bar and quickly access tools, actions, and plugins. Over time, it will learn your preferences and bring your most-used actions to the top of the search results.
Find your way around fast on an infinite Canvas. The Minimap will appear whenever you have layers outside your view, and show you exactly where you are in the current document. Simply click and drag on it to pan around.
Pin documents and projects
Pin important documents and projects to the top of the sidebar in the web app and Workspace window in the Mac app. Pinned items are personal to you, so you can use them in whatever way suits your workflow best.
You can now access Discover via the Mac app too. You’ll find it at the top of the Workspace Window’s sidebar — the latest updates, learning resources and helpful links right at hand.
For Business plan customers, it’s now easier to manage who can access documents and projects by assigning pre-made groups of Workspace Members to them.
For Business plan customers, we’re introducing the option to archive projects, giving you a handy space to file away inactive projects, and stay focused on what’s in flight.
We’ve made some improvements to how our Figma file importer handles text layers. As a reminder, you can drag any .fig file onto the Sketch dock icon, or open it from the File menu to import it into Sketch.
You can now use the shortcut ⌘⏎ to save a new version from the Create Version modal (^⌘S).
Changes (1)
This release is the last to support macOS 12 (Monterey). Future updates will require macOS version 13 (Ventura) or later.
Fixes (13)
Fixes a bug that prevented the prototype player from running after resizing and moving it to another display.
Fixes a bug where tints applied to a Symbol or group containing text weren’t visible in the prototype player.
Fixes a bug where generating prototype previews for complex documents took longer than expected.
Fixes a bug that caused the prototype player to appear blank after you created or duplicated an Artboard.
Fixes a bug where prototype previews wouldn’t always update after making changes to a Symbol.
Fixes a bug where the prototype player wouldn’t immediately show changes after you edited a Symbol source.
Fixes a bug where replacing a Symbol with another would always behave as if the Swap Symbols at Original Size option was in effect, even when unchecked.
Fixes a bug that caused single Artboard or layer exports in jpg format to use the extension .jpeg and not .jpg. These exports now use .jpg again, as they did before.
Fixes a bug that reduced on-Canvas performance while working with large bitmaps.
Fixes a bug where adding line breaks (using ↵ Enter or ⇧↵) in descriptions for new saved versions wouldn’t work correctly.
Fixes a bug where you couldn’t scroll down a long description when creating a new document version.
Fixes a bug where dragging to select layers would select additional layers outside of the drag area.
Fixes a bug where the Refresh Data shortcut (⌃⇧D) didn’t appear in the Menu Bar’s Insert menu or the Insert Toolbar.
We’ve made it easier to hide hints and hotspots when sharing prototypes. There’s also a new sharing option that removes toolbars and navigation for a more focused, client-friendly experience.
You can now can view and add comments while playing prototypes — right in the web browser — with no need to switch back to the design. Great for gathering feedback without interrupting anyone’s flow.
We’ve refreshed our web app’s UI, making it easier to navigate and helping you focus more on what matters — your designs. We’ve removed the sidebars, making more space for the full Canvas view, while keeping all the tools close at hand.
You can now inspect designs in the web app with all the context that comes from the full Canvas view. Open up a design in your browser, click the Inspect icon and select whatever you need, right on the Canvas.
In addition to Color Tokens, you can now export Layer Styles and Text Styles as Design Tokens — right from the web app. You can download your design tokens, or create an always-up-to-date public link for them.
We’ve also revamped our Web app’s notifications view — adding the option to filter between different types of notifications and giving everything more space, so you can see more of those all-important comments.
We automatically and regularly save your Workspace documents as you design — this means you don’t need to manually save at all unless you want to create a version. If you want to mark a specific milestone or moment of progress, you can quickly create a new version — and add a description or a star — by using ^⌘S.
We’ve rolled out a brand new prototype player that works across the Mac, web and iOS apps. With our new prototype player, playing your prototypes should feel smoother, faster, and more reliable. We also now support advanced display effects like background blurs on scrolling Artboards.
