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Inspiring
June 16, 2026
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Just updated Illustrator, and multi-selection in the Layers panel is STILL broken.

I’m wondering what we have to do to get this fixed. It’s a major defect.

 

Shift-clicking in the Layers panel does not select the entire range of items; it only selects each thing you click on, one at a time. This is incorrect.

 

You can Shift-click on things in this list to “highlight” the entire range, but that is useless. You can’t turn that pseudo-selection into a real selection, or do anything with it. I don’t even know what the point of this state is.

 

So, for example, if you want to select all things of a certain type and move them to a new layer… forget it. You’re going to have to click on every. single. one. one. at. a. time.

 

There is no excuse for this; it was previously reported.

5 replies

Smriti Capoor
Community Manager
June 19, 2026

Hello ​@Thomas_Calvin thank you for reporting this but I am unable to reproduce this on my end. Can you please share the build number you are seeing this on, your system config and also a short video of the issue? It would help me raise this issue to the correct team.

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Smriti, Product Marketing, Adobe Illustrator
Inspiring
June 19, 2026

Thanks for the reply. There’s a whole thread and screen grabs in the Illustrator forum here: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/51417988-selecting-several-objects-at-once-in-layers-is-bro

There’s also a Reddit thread on the same bug here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdobeIllustrator/comments/1u7nl97/comment/os42t8d/

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Smriti Capoor
Community Manager
June 22, 2026

Hello ​@Thomas_Calvin the JIRA system is down today but I have taken a note and plan to raise a ticket for the team to look into it. Thank you for sharing this. I’ll keep you updated if I hear something.

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Smriti, Product Marketing, Adobe Illustrator