InDesign 2025 SLOW

ID22. Let me know when 2027 or 2028 comes, or perhaps we are at the end of the line here. 

I have been using InDesign when it was PageMaker, and I have NEVER experienced this much lag and it is directly associated with text specifically, be it on the taskbar, the paragraph or character styles, there is a 15 to 30 second lag before a menu appears to make selected.  Could this issue be associated with the number of fonts or specific fonts? 

This situation is ridiculous. We've been dealing with the InDesign 2025 issue for nearly a year without any fix; only a string of suggestions about turning off various extensions and running in Safe Mode that were not necessary with previous versions. And it's been over a year since the issue with Illustrator 2025 preventing computers from to sleep popped up with no fix. This is unacceptable. I cannot believe that they are unable to repeat these issues on their end, as they often state. Perhaps Adobe needs to return their focus to making software for actual designers and stop trying to compete with Canva, pushing services for non-designers (I'm talking about you, Adobe Express) to take business away from those of us that made them successful in the first place.

After months (year?) of waiting, I decided to give ID2025 another try. Hoping that version 20.3.1 resolved the issues, and I'm happy to report I've been running it now for a few weeks and it's running just as fast as ID2024. I think the issue is the problem is so spuratic that IT is having a difficult time chasing it down. 

I'm running ID2025 v. 20.3.1 on an iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017 with 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 processor, Radeon Pro 570 4 GB Graphics, 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 RAM, running Ventura 13.7.6 and using Connect 26.0.5 font management. I keep most files on my local HD and external HDs, but also use Dropbox and (on occasion) Google Drive. I haven't disabled any features of ID. No special settings have been made. Running it in the default settings. Hope this helps. 

I've yet to find any solution. I've tried all the tips here. The fact of the matter is that InDesign (as with Photoshop) has gotten progressively slower/more buggy with the last few releases. It would be really nice if Adobe actually did something about this rather than responding to hundreds of users with the same steps which all amount to "turn off this functionality and it might fix it." 

I have already tried so many tips, uninstalled ID and freshly reinstalled, turned off all non-relevant functions (Font-Preview is off, Preflight is off, contextual bar is disabled, Display performance view is setting as low), have no firewall active, have 24 GB Ram and yet ID is always slow after some time. The documents react slowly after any certain activity, when I switch from a program to ID I see the beach ball roll for almost a minute... If I close ID, it just crashes by itself. I always have to restart my MacPro or close and open ID - but you can't work like that!!! I guess ID has become slow because of all the AI implementations, otherwise I can't explain it to myself... Please Adobe: Help!

I am also struggling with incredibly slow SELECTION of any item (Text box, image etc).  When I click on a text box the 8 small white perimeter boxes take approx 4 seconds to show up, BUT it turns out that the box is selected before the 4 seconds, it just doesn't show you it is.  I did notice that if I select a text box and then move the cursor off the page, the box instantly shows as selected.  Come on Adobe!  WAKE UP!!!

Just piling on, M2 mac mini with 32gig ram, try to nudge an single object, sometimes it doesn't repaint at all, othertimes it takes about 2-3 seconds. Also get flickering background when useing the select tool over the page. What the hell?

On both macOS and Windows, the current version runs fine for many, including me personally. All I can continue to suggest for anyone with a sluggish-moving InDesign is to experiment with an assortment of troubleshooting ideas. Here is the compendium of gathered try-this-n-try-that.