Randomly text thread cursor/function appears when clicking on text boxes

Question

Randomly, the cursor changes to thread text when clicking anywhere on a text box.

It happens sometimes when trying to select a key object for alignment, when double-clicking on a text box to edit its content, when a text box is selected and I click outside of it (trying to deselect the text box). It doesn’t matter where in the text box I click (meaning, it’s not that I’m clicking on the out port by mistake).

I already updated to the latest version, restarted my laptop, quit and restarted InDesign just in case… It’s been happening for days.

InDesign version: 21.4.1
macOs version: Tahoe 26.5.1

Abhishek Rao · Answer

Hi ​@Lucia RQ,I hope you're doing well.I wanted to check whether the issue was resolved after manually resetting your InDesign preferences as suggested by the expert. If you're still experiencing the problem, could you please share a short screen recording showing the cursor unexpectedly changing to the text threading cursor?Looking forward to your update.Thanks,Abhishek

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