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January 19, 2026

Bug report: Sticky mouse, particularly when switching timelines

  • January 19, 2026
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Hi there, 

 

I have a long time bug that has existed over several versions of premiere. This has been posted before by other users, but not for a couple of years so thought it worth starting a new post. 

The issue is that the mouse sticks, usually when selecting a timeline. So, for example, i may have four timelines open within the same pane. Only timeline tabs are in that pane. I will click a timeline. I will then click in, say, the effects tab which I keep in a pane with the effects control tab and the source montior tab. But what happens is that the mouse has 'stuck' so it thinks i have dragged a timeline to the same pane as the effects tab. So i then have one pane with three timelines in it, and another pane with effects, effect controls, source monitor and the timeline that i had clicked on earlier. 

A quick search has revealed others have the same (or very similar) issues: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/sticky-and-jumpy-playhead/m-p/13689919
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/cursor-sticking-in-premiere/m-p/10565819
https://www.reddit.com/r/premiere/comments/10wamwo/sticky_mouse_click/ 

I have experinced this bug on differenct machines and in different versions of Premiere. However, i am currently using 25.6.3 on a 2022 Mac Studio running Sonoma 14.2. 

I have also experience this bug on my laptop which is 2025 MacBook Pro running Sequoia. I have also experinced this on other machines (i am a freelancer so companies sometimes want me to work on their machines - they would all be Apple computers, usually mac studios, occasionally it might be an imac). 

Please note the bug is intermittent, and usually only happens when i have had Premiere open for a few  hours. It has been going on for many years though.... 

3 replies

Herbiedriver1
Inspiring
January 22, 2026

This is happening to me every. Single. Time.  Click on a path for a mask and it sticks to the pointer, I have to move like I am an 90 year old geriatric patient in fear of tripping and breaking my hip.  Getting really frustrating.

Inspiring
January 19, 2026

Hi.
I reported this behavior here and the answer is that you need to wait for the UI to refresh:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/mouse-button-sticks-when-moving-between-timeline-tabs/idc-p/15529646#M56352 

I still have the issue when I click "too fast" and it still bothers me sometimes...

Community Manager
January 19, 2026

Hi @daveysheps

Thank you for reporting a problem and for the information provided. Looking into this. 

Sorry for the frustration, 
Dani