InDesign lagging when navigating between pages

Forum|Forum|4 months ago
January 21, 2026
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For several months now, InDesign has botten increasingly non-sponsive when navigating between pages or zooming in. This is occuring in both InDesign 2024 and 2025.

When I page down, the next page gets highlighted in the Pages panel, but the page displayed in the main window does not change.

GPU Performance is currently turned off. But even when it is on, this behavior persists.

This is occuring across all my documents. I've been using these same documents for years, without issue. The documents are not large, all less than 10 MB.

Has anyone else experienced InDesign lagging? What can be done to resolve this?

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leo.r

Community Expert

What's your operating system version?

Also try these general troubleshooting steps:

https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/

Harshika Verma

Community Manager

Hi Document Geek,

Thank you for reaching out and reporting the problem. In addition to what our expert mentioned, we would also like to investigate the issue. Would you mind sharing some sample documents with us for testing purposes? Please share the details of your operating system and the version of InDesign installed on your machine.

Are you using the external monitors as well?

We will be happy to check this further with the product team.

Thanks,

Harshika

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Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Hi @Document Geek not sure but could be related some syncing happening. Try disabling font sync, turn off preflight. Clear the preferences and caches. The routine stuff you might already have done maybe.

-Manan

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