Text disappears when typing in text box

It doesn't happen happens every time, but often enough to be incredibly annoying.

I'm running:

• Mac OS 12.2.1
• Macbook Pro 13 inch M1 2020
• InDesign 17.1

Yes, I can disable GPU Performance and this problem goes away... but then scrolling is so jittery as to make we want to return to Microsoft Word. 

I'm joining the club. 

Having the same issue with a Mac Mini M1. 

Because everyone needs a good laugh about this, on the bug report pages for InDesign there are posts from August of 2017 that you would be unable to discern from the most recent posts here about text dissappearing.

Is there an update on this? I'm using v17.1 on an iMac (OS 11.5.1) and the issue is making it almost impossible for me to get any work done. 

Same here. This has been happening ever since I upgraded to new Mac chip in July 2021. I've lost all patience. I've sent the information you outline via the cloud. PLEASE FIX THIS.

Hi everyone—I just downloaded 17.1—with high hopes—and you know what my reward was. I created a new text document and guess what? Adios, arrivederci, type. I love the idea of a class action suit. I'd like to write to the CEO of Adobe and send him my current assessment of his company—what's this clown's name? Never in my life have I seen such incompetence from a company I have done so much business with. This is customer service at its lowest. I'd love to hear from one of the Adobe techs on the ground who is trying to solve this problem. Is it so difficult? If yes, explain, and I'm with you, but please Adobe, give us more feedback than you're doing now. I love it when I open an Adobe app and get the little questionaire asking me to rate things. I'd love to know who's reading what I say.

I'm not working on a Mac at all - I am working on a PC, which has never been an issue before this mess.  I publish books for a living - I'm NOT a computer programmer as some of these answers seem to suggest is required.  I live in fear of making a text edit in a book layout after it has been formatted, because no amount of this mumbo jumbo makes sense to me. I format books. I edit books. I publish books.  I am sure a lot of the people on this thread don't have the foggiest idea what these "workarounds" even mean.

For example, I imported a client's 360 page Word doc. In InDesign, I put in a simple a wrap-around on an image.  Now nothing after page 27 appears no matter what I do.  I even tried to set up a new document and it did the same thing. What should have taken me 6 or 7 hours took about 40.  SO RIDICULOUS!

If I'm the only one who doesn't understand these so-called workarounds, well, sorry but I'm a paying customer too and have multiple seats since 2006. This is costing me and my company not only money, but clients.  It should just work. It has always worked.  Now my company has thousands of projects that I cannot possibly just transfer over to another platform. 

How does a class-action lawsuit sound? Because we're all paying for something that doesn't deliver on the promises it makes, and it is severely hurting our businesses.  

This is still happening. Any word on a fix and not a workaround?

Bad news for anyone expecting a quick fix.

"Dear Jamie,

Hope you are doing fine!
I am writing to let you know about the issue you had with Text disappearing while editing in InDesign and as per our discussion on Friday.

We would like to inform you that we have shared the information collected on Friday with our Engineering team and they are researching/working on it to fix as soon as possible. 
However there is no ETA to fix the issue as of now.
I would suggest you to please try the below workaround till the issue gets resolved:
1. You may switch between GPU and CPU preview.
2. Zoom in and Zoom out.
We appreciate your patience.

Please feel free to revert to this email and we will be more than happy to assist you or contact us at 1-800-833-6687 via Phone or initiate the chat session to continue from here.

Thanks for working with us, 

Adobe Customer Care " 

Hi adobe— has this issue been resolved? Any edits, corrections, ragging, tracking / kerning— essentially ANY typesetting causes the text to disappear. It will sometimes reappear if you zoom in /out, turn preview on/off, etc. which is inefficient and problematic when finalizing text. I'm a book designer and this has created a huge amount of work for myself, editors and publishers. Extremely unprofessional for INDD. 

Mac Mini (M1, 2020)

Mac OS Big Sur 11.5.2

InDesign v17.1