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TheOriginalGC
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Community Expert
October 3, 2025

Illustrator beta v30 on Surface Pro no longer recognizes stylus pressure sensitivity

  • October 3, 2025
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I discovered that my beta version of Ilustrator that I installed on my Surface Pro tablet (running Windows 11)  has upgraded itself to version 30 and in the process, can no longer recognize pressure sensitivity with my stylus. I tested the stylus in other programs and I can confirm that those programs have no difficulty with varying pressure. I do not know what has changed (does this have something to do with using emulation to get Illustrator to work with the Surface Pro ARM processor?) and I would really like to go back to creating with this program. Has anybody else experienced this problem and if so, are there any settings I can use to get Illustrator to once again acknowledge pressure variations?

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Participant
February 2, 2026

I’m having the same issue. I’m using a Surface Pro 11 (running Windows 11 v25H2) with Adobe Illustrator Beta 30.3 104. I don’t have any problems in any other programs, like Photoshop, and I’m selecting a brush with pressure sensitivity. (I’m selecting a brush in a file that was previously working.) I wasn’t having any issues a week ago, but I tried using the calligraphy brushes yesterday, and the pressure sensitivity no longer works. I think it has to do with the update, as I updated 6 days ago. Illustrator is kind of useless to me right now. Help!

October 6, 2025

Hello @TheOriginalGC thank you for reporting this. I'll get it checked from the team.