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

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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.

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Correct answer Abhishek Rao

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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Jani Kemppinen

Participant

YES INDEED these pop-ups are EXTREMELY annoying! Another thing that drives me crazy is the Workspace setting that resets itself randomly very often. Sadly, after 30 years of working with Adobe software, I can not move my workflow to any alternative because of the company policy (I get the work files from outside). Adobe products have turned into CPU power eating monsters, especially After Effects.

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jeffhalmos

Inspiring

That's the real issue here: the Workspace reseting all the time. If it worked as it should the popups wouldn't happen anymore. But the Workspace issue has been an ongoing problem for years. Apparently not a priority. Stunning.

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Ed.allanby

Inspiring

Hi,

Is there a way to turn off all the Adobe pop-ups in InDesign? Screenshot attached.

Many thanks

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Alas! No. At least not yet. But I did ask for it to be added to preferences.

Mike Witherell

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brotherb54239633

Participating Frequently

new year. same old adobe, same old popups, same old lack of response. they could fix this today and refuse.

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apollomoonfire

Participating Frequently

I feel your pain. It seems like all tech is getting worse at it gets older. I am hoping soon that there is a visionary in Adobe to can adopt the mantle of "Make Adobe Great Again" and really work with it's users to empower them and support them. I just completed one of their surveys and I'm not very hopeful. For one thing they introduced the idea of "membership" which is just a fancier, more "upscale" term for subscription. I just want tools that work at a reasonable price that are customizable to my production needs. It was once this way in a galaxy far, far away.

michellep42148198

Participant

The pop ups are driving me insane. And I come to this page to find out if I can turn them off, so I can get back to work... and I'm hit with two more pop-ups from adobe.com. Sooo, does that Adobe thinks everyone wants to click through a forest of pop-ups every five minutes, everywhere they go?

InDesign is suddenly infuriating, in this latest version. I can't believe it isn't possible to disable them.

rszeles

Participant

This is infuriating. I got online hoping to find a simple say to disable these pop-ups. I'm going to go back to using an older version of InDesign. It is beyond belief that there is no way to turn this off. Does Adobe realize the amount of distraction and extra time it takes to deal with these Pop-up suggestions?

Gavin at MRP

Inspiring

+1 on removing the annoying pop-ups!

I would also like to disable the blue oval SHARE button at the top. This is a feature that we never use, because our workflow differs from this method. I've wanted to remove that since they first introduced it.

It feels like the app has gotten terribly bloated, and slow.

It would be nice if most newly added features had options to choose to use OR NOT.

I'm not against new features being added, but would love to get a faster, more nimble app by turning off features which are not relevant to my my workflow.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Can't you just ignore the share button?

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

Gavin at MRP

Inspiring

No.

Incidentally, this is just my work account. I've been using Adobe since the 80's (since before some of the apps were even owned by Adobe). But about 2 years ago, I dropped Adobe completely in my home business, and only use it at my day job.

There were 2 determining factors in this: 1. The subscription model (I got tired of shelling out $700 year), and 2. The pervasive attitude that what bothers the Users of this paid app does not matter.

There used to be an app called QuarkXPress, which dominated the Desktop Design Market. Quark got the idea that they were irreplaceable, and stopped listening to their user base.

Today, only a very small percentage of designers use QuarkXPress, with estimates placing it at less than 5% of the design market due to the dominance of Adobe InDesign.

Adobe needs to take a lesson. Other industry quality apps are coming up, ready to step in.

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chapter4abcdefg

Participating Frequently

while you are working on fixing this CONSTANT disruption of our work ... don't fotget illustrator, photoshop and Acrobat too ... it's unbelievably annoying to be constantly and repeatedly forced to click these away.

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Henry Brewer

Participating Frequently

I really hate this. I need to work, not to close all these stupid popups all the time.

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gregs_grafik

Participating Frequently

@Adobe, This is one of the MOST ANNOYING additions to the app ever. There NEEDS to be a preference setting for this and it should govern ALL tips and hints within the app.

These dumb things keep popping up despite repeated dismissals. Make it GO AWAY.

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

There is a thread here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-disable-quot-learn-more-quot-pop-ups-in-indesign/m-p/14926530#M593247

But ranting there won't change anything.

To request a change, add your voice to the problem in Uservoice.

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matteo_1073

Participant

anytime i click on a image in indesign 2025 it appears the artificial intelligence pop up on my screen, i tried to click on it to see if it would be gone after but it isn't. what can i do??

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