Center smart guide missing

[juan_3193]

Hello, 

I've been trying to get this to work for quite a while now and can't seem to find any way for it to appear, I updated my illustrator to the latest version of it on 09/08/2025 and somehow, the smart guides lost the center point on them and I can't easily center my objects/groups anymore, I've tried meddling with smat guide preferences, snap to point/grid, attributes and nothing. It used to show on the previous version but once this update hit it looks like it dissapeared.

 

Is there a way to toggle it back on or to bring it back? It's driving me crazy and I would really appreciate some help.

Thank you,

[Doug A Roberts]

Is the centre point on in the attributes panel for the selected objects?

[juan_3193]

It is on but it only creates a center point for each individual object within the group and not for the selected group's center.

Visuals:

 

 

[Ton Frederiks]

Has it ever done that? I do not see a separate center point for a group in the 2023 and 2024 versions.

[juan_3193]

It has for me until yesterday when I updated. I'm trying not to sound as crazy because it's what i've worked and relied on for the past few months for my job, it's the feature where the "intersect"/"center" smart guide appears with an "x" when moving an object/group to align with another, I got a couple examples from some videos I was able to find on the internet.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbdSYG-Xzao

What I'm getting now it's a text that says "endpoint" or "midpoint" or a center with lines once it's already been centered based on your estimation since I can't know for certain where it is now, as you can see below:

  

     

[Kurt Gold]

In Illustrator 29.8.1 I can still see the center mark as per your latest description.

In the screenshot below the grey triangles are a group that is moved towards the yellow circle. When the centre of the group meets the centre of the circle, smart guides are saying "Centre" ("Mitte" in the screenshot). Isn't that what you're looking for?

Can you show your smart guides settings?

[juan_3193]

So, the center mark does appear once it is centered but I have to guess where the center is by moving the objects around until it snaps just like your image / my reference in top right. On the previous versions, an "x" would appear and guide to where exactly the center was, just like in the surrounding pictures, that's the feature I'm asking about, maybe they took it away with 29.8.1 but I don't know.

Below are the references and my smart guides settings

   

[Ton Frederiks]

I am not sure if it could show a center of a group. In the example it aligns to the center of a twirled star.