InDesign 2025 Lagging on MacBook Air with M3 Chip

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October 14, 2024
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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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Correct answer tristangreatrex

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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HD Schellnack

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Same here. M1Ultra, 64GB, 4 TB, Sequoia — spinning ball when you edit text and jump out of the text, select an object, basically everything. Switching Tab does not work, Indesign stays in Background. 2024 was running just fine.

All for KI-features I sure as heck do not need in a Layout-Software. In PS they are fine (although basically you have to use other software, bc flux is so much better than firefly), but in Indesign? Sigh...

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@krzysiekt44191413, @HD Schellnack

Can you go back to Sonoma?

I'm not a Mac user but saw some articles that Sequoia have some network problems - not sure if it has been fixed already - but can you try disabling network cards / WiFi?