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

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
November 22, 2018
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After a recent update, my InDesign is now showing all these stupid pop-ups the whole time.

Screenshot attached. To be absolutely clear, I am talking about the entire dialogue box, not the tool-tip illustrateed in a section of the dialogue box shown.

How do I kill them off once and for all ? I've looked through Preferences but canot spot anything obvious.

How to

Correct answer Abhishek Rao

Hi everyone,

Thank you for continuing to share your feedback and experiences regarding the recurring in-app notifications and pop-ups. I understand this has been a long-standing concern for many of you.

I wanted to share an update that this topic is being discussed internally, and the product team is actively considering the feedback. We also have a bug logged for this behavior and are continuing to track it.

In the meantime, please follow and upvote the existing UserVoice report for updates and to add your feedback:

ID-4257796 – Provide an ability to disable IAMs and other In-app notifications

Please also update to the latest InDesign 21.6 release and continue to share your observations if you're still seeing these notifications.

I'll keep this thread posted as soon as we have further updates from the team.

Thanks again for your patience and continued feedback!

Abhishek

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catherinec12564734

Participant

7 years later.. no change

Gavin at MRP

Inspiring

Not only “no change” but actually more pop-ups. Plus the one solution that @Abhiishek gave to remove them no longer exists in the current release. They apparently closed that gap for us getting rid of pop-ups.

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

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

Gavin at MRP

Inspiring

The popups are still coming up as of INDD v21.3

I see that there is a v21.4 out there, so I’ll try downloading that today.

Gavin at MRP

Inspiring

I’ve updated to v21.4 and the popups are still there! 😡

Gavin at MRP

Inspiring

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.

Blueberrysoup

Participating Frequently

Unfortunately your one year anniversary can be applied to many of Adobes annoying 'features' 😞 often hitting the 5 or even 10 year mark in some cases!

Blueberrysoup

Participating Frequently

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.

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Doc Maik

Legend

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.

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Doc Maik

Legend

For everyone who is new to ID and/or has not yet seem them, this is one of the black tips (similar to "Learn more") pop-ups:

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Doc Maik

Legend

...and the blue one:

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J-D-F

Known Participant

Almost a year later...

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NerveBag

Participating Frequently

I just wanted to post a quick thank you to Adobe. You can't imagine how much I love having this ******* hideous black box pop up almost every time I click on my Pages panel. It's just a joy to look at, and it absolutely WILL NOT GO AWAY without clicking on it. It's not timed or anything, and there's no way to turn it off no matter how many times I've seen it, so it's perfect to really ruin my workflow and my mood multiple times a week! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

And this isn't the only one! There are aggressive, anti-user-friendly boxes for ALL KINDS OF USELESS ****! Like when I export a file! That one's also really fun! I've only seen it about 17 million times, so I haven't had a chance yet to completely read through all the valuable information it contains, but I'm sure by the 34-millionth time I'll finally be able to absorb that critical message. *crosses fingers*

I'm so eager to continue to explore and find more fun easter eggs like this in the future as you continue to throw your waste-infected garbage directly into my face day after day. Yum!

It's high-quality products like this that I'm forced to use by my employer because of your wonderful monopoly that make me so glad I will eventually die.

Thanks, Adobe! Top-notch work! Keep it up!

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Henry Brewer

Inspiring

Well said, mate. 🙂 You said it funny, but otherwise it's incredibly annoying. I'm using InDesign 19.5.1, which doesn't have these stupid popups, so I don't even know what the current version is, and I don't care because some "very smart" manager doesn't want to stop showing his popups to show his life's work. When 19.5.1 stops working, I'm switching to Affinity.

Gavin at MRP

Inspiring

I use Affinity at home. Unfortunately, we still have to use Adobe at work, because of the stranglehold it has. But I encourage everyone I can to move to Affinity. I used Adobe for 30+ years, and really used to love and respect it. Now, they clearly care nothing for us long-time users.

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alexpselamat

Inspiring

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!

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Henry Brewer

Inspiring

That's why I use older versions where these pop-ups don't appear. But that makes paying for a regular subscription pointless for me. It’s probably time to say goodbye to Adobe.

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jeffhalmos

Inspiring

I've found a fairly simple solution to this nightmare. It comes in the form of a startup script that selects your custom Workspace everytime ID boots up. When this happens, ID doesn't think you're new and so you won't see them anymore. But you havbe to set up a custom Workspace, which you should anyway, for this to work:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/forgetful-workspace-workaround/td-p/15351963

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jd_8587

Participant

That's great. Nice work. It's reassuring to know that we can rely on the community to address Adobe's failures.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

To tell you true, I was expecting a Preference switch in 20.3 about the pop-ups, but I don't see one.

Also, I am still seeing pop-ups. Am I to expect to silence each of them at least once?

I would prefer a preference switch like the video tooltips. Helpful for the newbie, but I can turn it off in preferences.

Mike Witherell

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Henry Brewer

Inspiring

Yes, that would be the only sensible solution. That's what everyone's been saying over and over again. But there's somebody at the top of Adobe who's obsessed with these popups. He thinks popups will increase profits by at least 50%. So when the question of whether to add a checkbox to the settings was decided at the meeting, he definitely forbade it. He thinks the solution is to keep the popups even if they were to lose most of their old customers. He said popups will attract more new ones.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

"He"?

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

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