After updating too illustrator cc 2019 its very slow

Just upgraded to 24.0.2. Still sluggish in every way UNLESS, unless Illustrator boots with the Mac Pro (Catalina; 48 Gb RAM; 12 core; 5,1; 4K monitor).

As long as I use it and don't let it sit for many hours or quit it, It's perfectly fine. But once I quit Illustrator and reboot it WITHOUT also rebooting the system, it's unbelievably slow. MAYBE it's that Adobe apps don't like 4K monitors, because I can move the super slow app to my 2K monitor and it's back to crazy fast.

Turning off Speech Dictation fixed it for me too.  Could that be any stranger?!?!

Reiterating all of the above complaints. Illustrator CC 2019 on mac is practically unusable. I waste HOURS at work because of these issues. It takes 20 mins to register any kind of effect, cutting/pasting, moving objects with an effect applied, basically anything. Saving looks like a crash and takes forever. But you better take a super long time-out every so often to do it, because if not AI will crash and then you have to spend another 3 hours replacing that 20 mins of work.

Just chiming in here that the current version of Illustrator (23.0.6) is also very sluggish for me.    It's a bummer.  A real bummer.  

MacPro 12 Core  3.33 Ghz

NVidia GFX 780 3gb

High Sierra 10.13.6

64 GB Ram.  

Any official update on this? I'm on a 2018 macbook pro with GPU performance turned on and Illustrator CC 2019 is performing like a pc from the 90s! Even dragging around a simple box is a chug-fest of low frame rate updates.

Hi Guys,

This has been winding me up for a while now, while using CC2019 on Mac it felt like everything was working in slow motion, even moving the cursor on a blank page felt laggy, I've finally found the fix. I'm running a Mac Pro (Late 2013) with 32 GB 1866 MHz DDR3 so its clearly not a machine/ram issue. Eventually I just started unticking preferences that I didn't recognise from older versions.

Preferences > user interface > uncheck 'scale cursor proportionally'

You will see an immediate performance increase on your cursor and throughout illustrator.

hope it helps, cheers, Malcs!

I seemed to have found a simple solution that fixed the sluggishness. In Illustrator prefs, Performance, GPU was selected but Animated Zoom was not selected. When I clicked it on, it fixed my issue. So make sure Animated Zoom is checked.

Have same known issue or similar wont bore with the details except basically new win10 pc - What seemed a standard routine that i do is a nightmare now.... how I discovered is saving a file as a pdf (in Illustrator latest) which normally would be a file size of KB's turned into MB's. I know, not much to go on but I didnt recall seeing any mention of PDF so figured I would throw it in the pile. However when I recreate same file with effects and text in Indesign and save as a PDF it saves it as Illustrator used to low file size quick and to the point.

Ok after reading all the post it seems adobe has forgotten their true professional users and are more interested make small hip and cheap apps for Instagram post.

I have lost a major client after having to work on super slow buggy adobe products.

first I was told the problem is my iMac Pro so decided to clean install then once again illustrator 2019 is keep giving me beach bull spin and auto dragging from left to right hand selecting.

2nd advice was uninstall your wacome so I did. Gone back to using apple Magic Mouse no everything the same. I most have made a record instal and uninstalling in 1 day.

can some one please help, I been looking in to options of moving from adobe, it feels like we are prisoners of major mafi who is no listening any more.

what a shame.

I'm having the same issue.  I'm going back to the previous version.