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Before, when you started connecting an arrow or line to a shape, you’d get 5 connection points: 4 on the sides and one in the center. Now the one in the center is gone. I know I’m not crazy because I still see it in videos that are at least 1 year old, so it must have happened during the last year.

Attaching to the central node meant that when I move the shape around, the line would jump to the most convenient side. Now I can only achieve that if I ignore connection ponts and connect the line in a random place approximately in the center of the shape. Apart from triggering my OCD, this is also inconvenient because the line then stays on top of the shape and I have to manually move it back and then the arrow head disappears.

Am I missing something? I can’t see anyone else asking about this. Is there a setting to bring back the central node? A hotkey? How do people deal with this?

Before (took a screenshot in one of the questions since I can’t reproduce the old look): 

 After:

 

 

@Yulia Zhukova - The behaviour seems to have changed slightly.

I am noticing that, when the line first joins to a dot only, then the line will stay with that specific point.

But if you drag the line just a little bit closer, the object highlights blue which appears to be the new indicator that the connection line will changed based upon the direction of the connected object.

Here it is in action with a sticky note:

 

Oh yeah! That’s it! Wow, I couldn’t find it anywhere, like, googled for 5 hours! Thanks! I wish they had it mentioned in the help center! Thank you so much!

Would it be possible to have arrows that aim toward the center of a shape, but still stop at the edge of the shape when rendered?

I know Miro currently connects arrows to the center of the nearest side, which is fine for simple diagrams. But in more complex layouts, it would be much cleaner if arrows could be directed toward the center – reducing overlaps and improving readability.

I faced this too — it seems Miro removed the central connection point. You can fix it by manually drawing a connector and snapping it to the shape’s edge, then aligning it toward the center. Hope this helps you!

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