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InDesign 2025 Lagging on MacBook Air with M3 Chip

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Something terrible happened after InDesign upgrade to 2025 version, MacOS's spinning beach ball spins every time the cursor moves, and InDesign is lagging soooo badly (I work on MBA 15” M3, RAM 24GB, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1). Have you experienced something like this? Is there any solution for this?

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tristangreatrexCorrect answer

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I found that once I moved my cursor off the area I selected, InDesign responded. So I fixed the problem by Preferences>Interface - deselect 'Highlight Object Under Selection Tool'. It all works fine now. InDesign is no longer slow - Sequoia 15.2 / MacBook Pro M1 Max / 64GB

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Vergel37768367r9yl

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Yes inDesign 2025 is a complete disaster for me. Same problem. As someone who uses this for work 95% of the time, this is a horrible failure. I have to go back to 2024. Big problem is I have to deal with newer version of the indd files, and some of it does not convert for some reason. This is a nightmare.

And yeah, nothing solved it, the preflight and font hiding thing is a no no.

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Martin Kolba

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Same problem but if I turn Adobe Fonts Off. All is ok. Try it.

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DragonfliesDesign

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A couple of things that have helped -

1. Turn off Preflight: Window/Output/Preflight. Unfortunately, they don't give us the option for it to be off by default so you'll have to remember to turn it off every document you open.

2. Turn off Font Previews: On a blank screen go to Preferences/Type/Type Options/ uncheck the box for "Enable in-menu Font Previews" then Restart InDesign to "make it so!"

So far, these have helped. I'm on Macbook M1 Pro with Sequoia 15.0

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wotUwant

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I was having exactly the same issues with the new 2025 InDesign, reverted to 2024 and the issues were immediately resolved. With the high monthly cost for Adobe software - their core software needs to work - I wasted loads of time thinking it was my new Mac keyboard that was faulty.

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Ricardo281378713tcu

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They're only focused on their AI gimmicks so they look even more like Canva. They forget to work on the core software.

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wotUwant

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Yes I totally agree, I really do not have the need for the AI gimmicks either – nice to have, but really not essential to my working day. I need the core software that I rely on to work.

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paulas40545316

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I have the same problem on a MacBook Pro with the same configuration. As someone who has used Adobe Products since the earliest days of Photoshop, it's beyond frustrating that they can't get it right BEFORE they distribute it. I'll now have to backpedal and UNINSTALL 2025 from multiple devices and go back to using 2024. Maybe they'll have it functioning in six months.

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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Unfortunately, setting auto-update is never a good idea.

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Ranessa

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I can’t even blame it on that. I clicked on update. Dumb me…won’t do that again.

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MickyWeirNSU

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This has happened to me also. Every mouse click or movement causes InDesign to Beachball... This morning I uninstalled 2025 and went back to 2024, and it fixed the issue.

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hnks14

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I would advise using the 2024 version. I lost my last minute dealine submission. My source file wiped out random pages on a 200 page file after an export.

Support was not able to help.

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Ranessa

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I am having the same problem as well. I have an M3 Pro and am a graphic artist. Taking tons of time to do my work while I'm waiting on the spinning ball to quit. Has anyone solved this problem?

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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@Ranessa

How many fonts do you have installed / activated?

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-2025-v20-0-crashes-upon-redo/m-p/14929994#M593504

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Ranessa

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Not many...I use a font manager so turn them off and on with use. I only leave on the few I use daily.

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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I had to open some file today - created in the latest version - and got this:

Looking at the number of posts with complains...

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Laubender

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@Robert at ID-Tasker said: "… I had to open some file today - created in the latest version - and got this: "

Hi Robert,

do you see this message "Converting …" with the release version of InDesign 2025 version 20.0.0.95 ?

If yes, maybe the file was created in a previous Prerelease or Beta version of InDesign with a feature set that does not match the actual release version?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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@Laubender

That's not the point of the screenshot 😉

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Ricardo281378713tcu

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I'm having the same problem. After I edited some text and press ESC to leave it takes literally 2 seconds until I can click something else and the panels restart. Never happened to me in the last version.

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HD Schellnack

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It's also consistent, I think – the other Macs in the Studio have the same problem, all M1Max. Basically lagging, slow, beachballs. And all this for features the App doesn't need, that add nothing to the workflow.

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Ricardo281378713tcu

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We've only updated one and left the others on the last version. The difference is noticible. Will push back this machine to the last version and leave this new version until they make us change 😄

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