Adobe Reader Lagging, Slow and Unusable macOS Ventura 13.2.1

Sheesh. I made the mistake of replacing AcrobatPro (long since canceled) by Acrobat Reader to avoid the endless requests to pay for the pro version. Big mistake. Most of the time I go to change preferences, it hangs. When I start it, it often hangs. If I open a document, it hangs. It usually eventually responds, but this take many minutes. I turned off the AI toolbar. No help. Tried shutting off 'Downloading speculative content', no help (what the heck would this be, and why would anyone want it?). Try to save preferences. Hangs often. Sheesh.

Hi,

I'm having the same issue as the user's below. This is on a brand new iMac 2023. I was excited to get this program and finally graduate from using 'Preview' to create fairly basic wifi design drawing.  I'm currently working on a single page pdf with almost no advanced feature (just drawing colored circles around wifi access points) and there is a one second lag for every action that I perfom: move a circtly, draw a circle, resize a circle.  We paid money for this program.  It's really annoying. 

Same issues here, new Macbook... latest and greatest version of Acrobat and it's more glithcy and slow than any other versions i've used and has progressively gotten worse and worse over the past couple of years.  Similar to other users, i've tried all the recommended fixes and issue still persists. rediculous and unsustainable - issues like this is how competitors angle in with a better product and take the market share, i'm pulling for them as Adobe doesn't seem concerned at all about resolving this problem. 

I've got M1 Promax and it sucks on it too. I started using Macs in 2018 and Acrobat has been glitchy at best to down right unusable at any time since. Spending all the money on AI, forgot where you came from. 

Completely unuseable. What are we paying for here? There is no fix. The security steps do nothing.

CAN ANYONE HELP?

I also came here to upvote-and then Adobe forced me to login to that I could be a part of the conversation. Other than acrobat constantly crashing, that kinda pisses me off, too. Why do I have to log in to comment? Can't you just fix whatever ths issue is? 

I have a 2016 Mac Book Pro and I have the same issue. Acrobat is unusable for anything but small, simple documents. Documents that display perfectly well on a windows machine or on OSX preview are laggy and have constant display errors on Acrobat. Attempting to edit or comment on PDFs often results in freezing and crashes.

I've had numerous support calls with Adobe, and each time we go through the process of updating, purging, reinstalling and submitting error logs, and each time its the same. They can't fix the problem, it is a bug, and I'll have to wait for the next update. Then the next update comes and it's no different.

There is an intrinsic issue with Acrobat on Mac. Adobe need to admit it, make it clear to everyone, and stop wasting peoples time with arduous instructions through support.

I work with PDFs a lot. I currently have to remote into a separate windows work station. It's ridiculous. Please sort it out.

Adobe Acrobat has become EXTREMELY slow and glitchy for all documents. It is so frustrating to view any documents on this software - this is the case for our entire office who uses this software daily. Hopefully Bluebeam comes out with a Mac friendly version eventually! 

Adobe Acrobat Pro is becoming worse and worse it seems to me. I've been using it almost daily for serveral years and it's getting slower and slower. What am I paying 1'000 $ for every year if Adobe Creative Cloud doesn't work? Since December I've been unable to scroll or zoom, as it takes several minutes and it is simply impossible to work with it. Even with tiny plans of 1 MB it lags. Please find a solution, I need software that works efficiently. I work on Apple OS Monterey Version 12.6.2. Could that be part of the problem?