Indesign 2025 Unusably Slow

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
January 7, 2025
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I know a lot of other people are experiencing the same problem but I'm hoping if there are enough comments about it, Adobe might consider addressing the issue. Indesign 2025 is so slow it is unusable. I tried a number of the workarounds that I've seen online and none of them are working. I tried going back to 2024 and the projects that I started in 2025 are apparently not compatible with 2024 and the 2024 version is now just as slow, if not slower and it crashes constantly. I'm working with Indesign version 20.0.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.2. Please advise a workaround other than going back to 2024, removing the document fonts folder, disabling the contextual task bar, closing the magnet application, and uninstalling and reinstalling the application as none of these have worked for me.

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spencerw54299949

Participant

I'm in the same boat. It's been months now and it seems like Adobe is just completely unconcerned with fixing this issue. A single tweet or email or anything to show that they know about this issue and are working on it would go a long way. Literally every other time I click inside of the program, I have to wait 5ish seconds before the click registering. Not the colloqiual sense of the term "literally" either. I mean it. I get one click that behaves normally, and then the next one takes seconds to register. I also have tried all the remedies and no real changes. Why should I have to try the "stand on one foot, spit on your left elbow, and pray" trick to get my program that worked fine before to work fine now. Am I stupid?

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Others don't have your issue so it might be worth systematically going through the various options. You say you have tried all the remedies, but have you, for example, used the. Adobe Cleaner Tool? And can you confirm the (exact) versions of InDesign and your OS and how much RAM and spare hard disk capacity you have on your system.