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February 4, 2014
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How do you switch off or disable Live Corners in Illustrator?

  • February 4, 2014
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Hi,

I've recently done the new Illustrator CC update and want to know if it is possible to switch off or disable the Live Corners feature in the new Illustrator CC update? For the type of work I do, having this feature on is really quite annoying and not practical.

If someone could please let me know that would be much appericated.

Thanks,

Agip

Correct answer Monika Gause

Hide the corner widget.

13 replies

Martin Dedron
Inspiring
September 5, 2022

Pour tous les français coincés avec ce problème et qui n'ont pas un bac+5 "compréhension de traductions foirées", l'option est dans le menu affichage et s'appelle en toute logique "widget masquer l'angle".

 

Evidemment.

Participant
April 27, 2021

Object > Shape > Expand Shape

 

You don't need any 3rd party software to disable this feature.

Participant
February 10, 2022


Didn't work for me 😞

Participant
June 22, 2017

Hi all, this is probably too late, you don't necessarily have to turn them off, my issue was the scaling which, when I scaled the object it messed up the round corners. If you go to preferences, there's a scale round corners checkbox, doesn't turn them off, but changed the annoying behaviour of readjusting the corners as the object was scaled, hope it helps someone.

anwarmCHKE
Participant
August 12, 2016

****FOUND A FIX!!!!**** Ok so turning off the widget is just a bandaid on a bullet wound. I found the solution today and I want to share it with everyone. Here's the step by step to TURNING OFF Live shapes. This will prevent Illustrator from creating live shapes by default. you'll go back to normal shapes in which you can reset the bounding box etc.

1. Quit Illustrator CC

2. (On a mac) click on "GO" on the top menu bar of OSX

3. Click "Option" while on "GO" This will make the "Library" folder appear

4. In "Library" scroll down to "Preferences"

5. Go to "Illustrator CC (Or Illustrator 20 or higher) "Settings"
6. In the "en_US" folder you'll find a file called "Adobe Illustrator Prefs" >Open it with textedit

7. Once the file is open hit (Command "F") and type in "Live" (No quotes)

8. Look for the line of code that reads "CreateLiveShapes 1"

9. Change the value of this code from "1" to "0"

10. Save the file and close

That's it! Keep in mind that you ever delete your preferences file you'll have to repeat this process

rcraighead
Legend
August 12, 2016

That's great! Thanks for sharing. Maybe a similar hack will fix Symbols so they save as normal symbols by default.

El Kemelyen
Participating Frequently
March 23, 2016

Hi guys,
Finally I found the solution to this stupid problem:

Live Corners widget preferences

Hide Corner Widget

  • If you prefer not to see the Live Corners widget when you select the Direct Selection Tool, you can turn it off from View > Hide Corner Widget.
  • If you want to continue seeing the Live Corners widget when you select the Direct Selection Tool, click View > Show Corner Widget.

How to work with Live Corners in Illustrator

Kris Hunt
Legend
March 23, 2016

Everybody already knows about that, and it is not a solution to the problem at hand.

El Kemelyen
Participating Frequently
March 24, 2016

Well, I didn't know that, so it worked for me, so I'm in heaven now! :-)

Good luck guys!

Participant
February 17, 2016

Go to:

Preferences>General>Use Preview Bounds. (Uncheck this last feature)

Then go to: View >Hide bounding box. This will disable the live corners.

hope that helps!

efrains96228016
Participant
December 17, 2015

When you make your rectangle, look up at the command panel at the top and click on 'Transform', then click 'Scale Corners'. Now you'll be able to resize your shape and the corners as well. Hope that helps.

lovelyalyssa
Participant
May 13, 2015

I was having this problem and I just went to:

object>shape>expand rectangle

This made it so I could resize my rectangle without having the corners change shape.

Participant
March 20, 2016

Thank you so much! This was the only suggestion that worked for me!! I was getting ready to cancel my monthly $50 for CC and get CS5 again.

rcraighead
Legend
October 31, 2014

I love not having the "round corners widget" in AI CS5. I'm trying to think why I'd want to pay Adobe $50 a month so I can turn off the new features.

Participant
June 3, 2014

I can't stand this feature either.  And not a peep on how to turn these off?  It's making my work twice as hard and three times as time consuming.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Monika GauseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
June 3, 2014

Hide the corner widget.

Participant
June 3, 2014

Thank you, Monika.   I initially missed that.