[Reviving] In Illustrator, selected objects cannot be edited immediately!

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This question is copy pasted from a previous resolution, except, in my case, I neither have MAGNET or DISPLAY PILOT or any such non sense. Illustrator started doing this randomly, since last week. Kindly help, TIA. [EDIT] Only way illustrator works normally is when starting mac in safe mode.

I’m encountering an issue in Illustrator where, when selecting text or objects by clicking with a mouse or trackpad, there is a delay before the control points appear. Sometimes, the selected object even follows the cursor erratically. If I press and hold, the spinning color wheel shows up, making the operation unresponsive. Additionally, double-clicking to isolate an object or edit text content often doesn’t work properly.

Oddly enough, these problems don’t occur when using marquee selection or lightly tapping the trackpad to select.

My current setup is an M3 MacBook Pro with both the system and software updated to the latest versions, and I’m using the latest licensed version of Illustrator.

Has anyone experienced similar issues? Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @johneh5FC4,

Sorry you're experiencing this. The fact that Illustrator works normally when your Mac is started in Safe Mode is helpful, as it suggests that something loaded during a normal startup may be interfering with Illustrator.

In addition to what the experts have suggested, please try temporarily disabling any third-party mouse/input utilities, window managers, screen-sharing apps, or other background utilities and test Illustrator again. You can also go to Illustrator > Settings/Preferences > Performance, disable GPU Performance, restart Illustrator, and check whether the behavior changes.

Could you also confirm your exact Illustrator version/build, macOS version, and whether you have a Wacom driver/tablet installed? If the issue persists, please share a short screen recording showing the delayed selection/dragging behavior so we can investigate further.

Thanks!
Abhishek

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Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Do you have Mac OS 27.0 installed? And a Wacom driver? If so, uninstall the Wacom , it is currently not compatible.

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justlearnskills

Community Expert

@johneh5FC4 so the first thing I read was ‘Illustrator started doing this randomly, since last week.’ — it was fine but somehow along the way your Illustrator preferences went a little ‘wonky?’ It sounds your preferences got corrupted. I would open Illustrator Preferences and Reset it.

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