Smart Guides in Illustrator not showing [when using Grid]

[user620]

Mac Illustrator 2020

Turned on Smart Guides with CMD + U with these settings

Was expecting to see the word 'anchor' or 'path' when hovering over the object, but am seeing none.

How can I fix this ?

[user620 · Accepted solution]

Just figured it works only when Snap to Grid is turned off. 

[user620]

Is this how its supposed to work on Illustrator 2020 (mac) ??

[jane-e]

"Is this how its supposed to work on Illustrator 2020 (mac) ??"

It's always worked like this. Smart guides only work when Snap to Grid is off.

~ Jane

[Jose Luis Romero, Jr]

I'm using a Mac, and after trying all the classics without any results, I realized that the snapping tolerance was set at 0. After changing the snapping tolerance to 4 I had smart guides working as expected.

I hope this helps!

[Jose Luis Romero, Jr]

By the way, you can set up the snapping tolerance down to work and the smart guides will work as well.

[determined_adventures154A]

THANK YOU for posting this! My smart guides randomly stopped working. I went through all of my settings and didn't realize that this was reset to zero; no one else anywhere I had combed through mentiond this detail to get the smart guides working again.  You saved both my hairline and sanity with this detail.