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FR: How to Disable "Learn More" Pop-Ups in InDesign

Community Beginner ,
Oct 08, 2024 Oct 08, 2024

After a recent update, my InDesign is now showing all these stupid pop-ups the whole time.


Screenshot attached.  To be absolutely clear, I am talking about the entire dialogue box, not the tool-tip illustrateed in a section of the dialogue box shown.

 

How do I kill them off once and for all ?  I've looked through Preferences but canot spot anything obvious.

 

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Adobe Employee , Oct 21, 2024 Oct 21, 2024

Hi Everyone,

 

Thank you all for sharing your feedback and concerns about the "Learn More" pop-ups in InDesign. I completely understand how disruptive these can be, and it's clear they are causing frustration for many of you.

While these pop-ups aren’t technically a bug, we do recognize that they can be an inconvenience for some users. We’re looking into ways to improve this experience and are considering options that would allow you more control-such as the ability to disable them permanently i

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Adobe Employee , Apr 01, 2025 Apr 01, 2025

Hi @danpinho,

 

To help push this request forward, I’d recommend upvoting the UserVoice here: Preference to disable contextual menus annoyance. Adding your comments there will help prioritize the request, and you’ll be notified of any updates as they become available.

We truly appreciate your patience, and I’ll be sure to share any progress as soon as I have more information!

 

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Adobe Employee , Apr 01, 2025 Apr 01, 2025

Hi everyone, 

 

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the persistent "Learn More" pop-ups. I understand how much value this feature would add for users. I have escalated this with the product team and they are looking into it. 

 

For better visibility, could you please upvote this UserVoice here: Preference to disable contextual menus annoyance

and add your comments. 

I’ll be sure to share any progress on this thread soon as I have more information!

 

We truly appreciate your patience.

 

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Abhis

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Adobe Employee , Apr 03, 2025 Apr 03, 2025

Hi everyone,

 

I wanted to share an update on this issue after following up with the product team. They’ve acknowledged the feedback and confirmed that many onboarding prompts and pop-ups will be removed in the upcoming InDesign 20.3 update, scheduled for release in April.

I’ve specifically raised the concern about the "Learn More" pop-up that appears after updates, installation, or resetting preferences, as this has been a recurring frustration for many of you. The team is checking the status o

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Explorer ,
Apr 25, 2025 Apr 25, 2025

I replied to @AdobeCare on X. If you can, please request assistance from @AdobeCare. Maybe they care?

https://x.com/alexpselamat/status/1915831232740610421

 

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 22, 2025 Aug 22, 2025

The product team lied to you, evidently, Abhishek.

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Guide ,
Aug 26, 2025 Aug 26, 2025
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Ok, we are currently at version 20.5. Has anything been done? I still see black and blue pop-ups on a daily basis.

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Explorer ,
Apr 08, 2025 Apr 08, 2025

I keep getting that stupid History pane tour coming up, it's SOOO ANNOYING!!!

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Participant ,
Apr 09, 2025 Apr 09, 2025

The History pop-up (my favourite), which always appears unexpectedly and blocks ongoing activity, is a perfect Adobe trap that must have been invented by someone extremely "forward-thinking" and "clever".

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Explorer ,
Apr 08, 2025 Apr 08, 2025

I keep getting that History pane tour coming up, it's SOOO ANNOYING!!!

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Explorer ,
Apr 25, 2025 Apr 25, 2025

Updated todat and after a few tests, it seems is FINALLY gone. 

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Community Expert ,
Apr 25, 2025 Apr 25, 2025

To tell you true, I was expecting a Preference switch in 20.3 about the pop-ups, but I don't see one. 

Also, I am still seeing pop-ups. Am I to expect to silence each of them at least once?

I would prefer a preference switch like the video tooltips. Helpful for the newbie, but I can turn it off in preferences.

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Participant ,
Apr 25, 2025 Apr 25, 2025
Yes, that would be the only sensible solution. That's what everyone's been saying over and over again. But there's somebody at the top of Adobe who's obsessed with these popups. He thinks popups will increase profits by at least 50%. So when the question of whether to add a checkbox to the settings was decided at the meeting, he definitely forbade it. He thinks the solution is to keep the popups even if they were to lose most of their old customers. He said popups will attract more new ones.
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Community Expert ,
Apr 25, 2025 Apr 25, 2025

"He"?

 

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Participant ,
Apr 25, 2025 Apr 25, 2025
Yes, that's a pertinent point! My bad.
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Engaged ,
Jun 02, 2025 Jun 02, 2025

I've found a fairly simple solution to this nightmare. It comes in the form of a startup script that selects your custom Workspace everytime ID boots up. When this happens, ID doesn't think you're new and so you won't see them anymore. But you havbe to set up a custom Workspace, which you should anyway, for this to work:

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/forgetful-workspace-workaround/td-p/15351963

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New Here ,
Jun 02, 2025 Jun 02, 2025

That's great. Nice work. It's reassuring to know that we can rely on the community to address Adobe's failures.

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New Here ,
Jul 24, 2024 Jul 24, 2024

For me, the context bar has been useless at best, but more often it is simply in my way. It frequently covers the image or text that I am working on, making it difficult to see and edit my work. This obstruction disrupts my creative process and hinders productivity. At least the context bar can be turned off, which is a relief.

 

Now in InDesign, every time I click on an image, a popup tutorial video about how to use the new text-to-image AI feature appears from the context bar This video covers about a third of my screen and whatever image I have selected. This is extremely frustrating as it prevents me from continuing with my project without first closing the video.

 

I strongly believe that these popups—whether advertisements or tutorials—should not interfere with the workspace. I hope this does not become a common practice, as it greatly impacts the user experience.

 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 24, 2024 Jul 24, 2024

The Context Bar can be disabled by either clicking the three dots on the bar to access its menu, or via the Window > Contextual Task Bar.

 

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I also think that after clicking 'Got It' the video won't show again.

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Participant ,
Sep 03, 2024 Sep 03, 2024

Amen.  Thank goodness the contextual menu pop up can be turned off.  It always is located exactly where you need to be actually working.  Who needs this anyway, when those options and more are nearly always a right-click away when you actually want it.

 

I agree--the tutorial pop up windows are also ridiculous.  If you want easy access to tutorials for users who do not understand what the HELP menu is for, just put an icon at the top right that can be clicked.  Even worse is when that pop up forces you to click on it to continue working.  

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Participant ,
Jun 19, 2025 Jun 19, 2025

My wife is starting to use Photoshop again. After a few years of these annoying pop ups having grown to a ridiculous number, she was confused as to how to get rid of them, and I have to go through and remove all of them for her. As a regular user I've taken all the junk away leaving the pristine version of Photoshop without popups bugging the heck out of me. Please stop adding junk to obscure what I'm doing. I still find myself having to check the box "Don't Show Again" still on ocassion, the latest is when I turn a JPEG into a Photoshop ducument and it says I'll lose the JPEG info. Duh. Don't get me started on the toolbar changes. Yikes!

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Community Beginner ,
Sep 27, 2024 Sep 27, 2024

Both options listed below in "Correct answer" remove both the Task Bar and the much more annoying pop up window with an instruction video. I want the Task Bar, not the pop up window. Once might be ok, but it pops up every time layer with mask selected. Must have "dismissed" it 30 times working on last image. 

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Adobe Employee ,
Sep 30, 2024 Sep 30, 2024

"Closing the Task Bar" is not a solution for those that want to use the Task Bar, we may call this a "Workaround" for some customers.

Resetting this folder may help...
Windows: Users | User Name | AppData | Roaming | Adobe | CCX Welcome
MacOS: Users | User Name | Library | Cache | Adobe | CCX Welcome

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Explorer ,
Jul 17, 2024 Jul 17, 2024

annoying popup every time an image is moved in InDesignannoying popup every time an image is moved in InDesign

Every time I move an image in InDesign, I see this annoying popup trying to coax me into using the next AI beta feature that Adobe is cramming into its software these days. I see Adobe community posts going back more than 6 years asking how similar annoying popups can be disabled on a number of Adobe apps. Please advise. And Adobe Development team, please make these optional without the need for the user to make registry edits!

 

And no, I don't want to keep clicking "Got It". I just want these helpul annoying popups to stop spamming my workflow.

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Explorer ,
Jul 17, 2024 Jul 17, 2024

Windows, Contextual Task Bar.jpg

So, for anyone else tired of this particular annoyance, you can go to Windows > Contextual Task Bar and make sure it is unchecked.

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New Here ,
Oct 07, 2024 Oct 07, 2024

No longer in that place in the current version : 19.5

Of course, there is always a choice.

There are several other progs that do the same, some a lot cheaper as well.....

 

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New Here ,
Oct 07, 2024 Oct 07, 2024

....with "doing the same" I  mean page layout progs !

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Participant ,
Jul 04, 2025 Jul 04, 2025

Two different things, I think.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 17, 2024 Jul 17, 2024

@June Rabbit also if you click on the three dots ••• you can also Hide the Context Bar too

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