This is driving me INSANE. Whenever I want to zoom in, illustrator jumps to the center of whatever object I have selected.

[JSHUMAKER]

How can I turn this feature off? I'm trying to work on something very intricate so I'm constantly zooming in or out and it's so incredibly frustrating that it automatically jumps my view to the center of the object instead of the center of what I was looking at. Does that make any sense? It's like I can't zoom in if I have ANY object selected because it will jump me to the center of whatever area that is. And so then I have to either zoom back out, deselect the object, zoom in where I want to be, THEN select the object, or I have to scroll forever until I get to the area I want to be. SO annoying. Can anyone help with this?

[Mike_Gondek]

No way to stop this, but these 2 ideas can help regain some sanity.

1. hold down Command Space then marquee drag your zoom tool
2. Option drag your scroll wheel if you have one

Yes this new feature sounded like a good idea on the outside, but have had nothing but complaints about this and for the few new improvements in 2017 I decided to go back to 2015.3 mostly because of this.

[obsessivetype]

The new zoom function is sometimes helpful but more often it's not. Please give us an option to revert to the previous function.

[LeeFam]

Yeah this is terrible just wanted to vote in agreement

[Mike_Gondek]

Thanks we need your support to get Adobe to understand how seriously terrible this option is. Please voice your support to change zoom to selection on the spot below, as posts with heavy action usually get their attention.

Disable Illustrator cc 2017 zoom to selection?

[AshutoshChaturvedi · Accepted solution]

Hi,

We are pleased to inform you that your request is available in the latest release of Illustrator version 22.0.

Visit your Adobe Creative Cloud Application and update. If you do not see an update on the application please check for update from the flyout options on the application after clicking on three vertical dots. For step by step process please visit: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/download-install-app.html#Checkforupdates

Warm Regards,

Ashutosh Chaturvedi  | Sr. Quality Engineering Manager – Illustrator

Adobe. Make It an Experience.

[WillD81]

This post is over 6yrs old and now we're in 2024 and I'm experiencing the same thing! I have Illustrator 24 and it still exists. Extremely frustrating! Please fix this!!!

[Monika Gause]

In Preferences > Selection & Anchor display, you just need to uncheck "Zoom to selection"

[Anubhav M]

Hello @WillD81,

Sorry to hear about your experience. I hope the suggestions shared by Monika helped resolve the problem. If not, kindly try resetting Illustrator's preferences as described in this article (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/troubleshoot-preference-issues.html) and checking if it helps.

Disclaimer: Please note that renaming preferences folders will remove all the custom settings, and Illustrator will launch with default settings. You can also save a backup of the folders in case you want to. The location is mentioned above.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

Anubhav

[ermilomagana_mx]

may 9th 2025 and this is still an issue, i click on and off the toggle of "Zoom to selection", all the new ""features"" only makes the experience of working on this software worst everyday, anyone knows how to downgrade to CS6????

[Monika Gause]

may 9th 2025 and this is still an issue, i click on and off the toggle of "Zoom to selection", all the new ""features"" only makes the experience of working on this software worst everyday, anyone knows how to downgrade to CS6????

By @ermilomagana_mx

You probably need to reset the preferences. Or perhaps just reboot the computer in case you haven't done so for quite some time.

[ermilomagana_mx]

lol, i do that almost every hour, the files are mostly vectors so i dont understand how in every update the software just gets worse and worse and worse, my machine is not new but is not bad, have over 300gigs free of drive space so i know thats not the issue

[Monika Gause]

You reboot the computer every hour?

16 GB of RAM is not very much. What's in your files?

[Anubhav M]

Hello @WillD81,

Could you share more details like the Illustrator version installed on your computer, if this happens with all your files, and a small screen recording of the problem, so I can better assist you?

Also, try running Illustrator under a different administrator account (macOS) and under Safe Mode (macOS) and share your observations.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Anubhav