FR: How to Disable "Learn More" Pop-Ups in InDesign

After two years, I finally upgraded InDesign from the last stable version, 19, to version 21. I naively assumed that, surely, by now, those stupid pop-ups would have disappeared.

Oh, how wonderfully wrong I was.

Nope. They’re still there, proudly showing up again and again every single time I launch the application. Apparently, Adobe has decided that what every professional needs is to be reminded of the same pointless crap on every single startup.

At this point, I honestly don’t know what to think anymore. Is this some kind of elaborate revenge by Adobe? Or have they genuinely run out of people who have all their marbles and know what a professional application is supposed to do?💩

After two years, I finally upgraded InDesign from the last stable version, 19, to version 21. I naively assumed that, surely, by now, those stupid pop-ups would have disappeared.

Oh, how wonderfully wrong I was.

Nope. They’re still there, proudly showing up again and again every single time I launch the application. Apparently, Adobe has decided that what every professional needs is to be reminded of the same pointless crap on every single startup.

At this point, I honestly don’t know what to think anymore. Is this some kind of elaborate revenge by Adobe? Or have they genuinely run out of people who have all their marbles and know what a professional application is supposed to do?

7 years later.. no change

Hi everyone,

First of all, thank you for continuing to share your feedback on this issue. I completely understand how frustrating it can be to have pop-ups interrupt your workflow, especially when you're working on deadlines and using InDesign every day. Many of you have been following this discussion for quite some time, and I appreciate your patience and persistence in helping us improve the experience.

I wanted to follow up on this discussion and see how things are looking today. We've delivered several updates and fixes over the past few releases, and I'd like to know whether you're still seeing any of these unwanted pop-ups in the latest version of InDesign 21.4.

If you're still seeing unwanted "Learn More", onboarding, tutorial, or other disruptive pop-ups in InDesign 21.4, could you please reply to this post with a screenshot of the pop-up along with a brief description of when it appears? For example, whether it shows up when opening a document, selecting an image, exporting a file, working with panels, or during any other specific action.

The more examples we can gather, the easier it will be for me to investigate them individually with the product team and determine whether they're expected prompts, or issues that still need attention.

Thank you again for your feedback and for sticking with us on this. I look forward to your updates.

Best,
Abhishek

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I'm sorry — I forgot to jump in this thread on October 8, 2025, to mark the ONE YEAR anniversary of this NOT being solved.

Please for the love all that is holy in this world can this be removed?
Its been almost a year of this thread existing now and I cannot find any evidence of anyone that wants this feature to stay.

Hello!

Hasn't this been discussed and voted yet? At least I couldn't find a thread.

ID has started to annoy us with randomly appearing blue pop-up boxes with tips (?), which are usually placed in the lower part of the ID window. Since they're random, not everybody might be affected.

However, this, together with those other "Learn more" annoyances which have been discussed and voted and hopefully brought to Adobe's attention, is the next level of "let's see how we can annoy the user while our programmers have too much time to waste". Instead of fixing the hundreds of bugs listed on ID's uservoice page, they have time for this? Disclaimer: This rant was necessary. 

The actual question is: Any way to turn them off? I couldn't find anything in the prefs.

Almost a year later...

Unfortunately, you cannot disable these disruptive pop-ups. You just have to live with it. Take a deep breath, cuss Adobe, close the pop-up window, and move on to the next pop-up. Adobe understands that this is disruptive, but they will not fix it (as evidenced in how long this thread is). Oh yea, now these pop-ups are also in Photoshop! Yay!