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

[Tim5FA0]

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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[Doc Maik]

Hello!

Hasn't this been discussed and voted yet? At least I couldn't find a thread.

ID has started to annoy us with randomly appearing blue pop-up boxes with tips (?), which are usually placed in the lower part of the ID window. Since they're random, not everybody might be affected.

However, this, together with those other "Learn more" annoyances which have been discussed and voted and hopefully brought to Adobe's attention, is the next level of "let's see how we can annoy the user while our programmers have too much time to waste". Instead of fixing the hundreds of bugs listed on ID's uservoice page, they have time for this? Disclaimer: This rant was necessary. 

The actual question is: Any way to turn them off? I couldn't find anything in the prefs.

[Doc Maik]

For everyone who is new to ID and/or has not yet seem them, this is one of the black tips (similar to "Learn more") pop-ups:

[Doc Maik]

...and the blue one:

[alexpselamat]

This disruption has existed for quite some time (more than a year).  Adobe's representative is aware of this (Abhishek Rao) and Adobe is not getting rid of the pop ups.  They are actually adding more pop ups. Also adding them in other apps like Photoshop.

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

That’s because Adobe hired new young and ambitious managers who had to come up with something so they wouldn’t be seen as completely useless. Even though some people at Adobe tried to reverse this trend—which will eventually sink Adobe—these brilliant young people, fresh out of school, are very proud of their 'invention' and will defend it until Adobe loses its customers. Then they’ll move on to help another company, as it usually goes.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Where are you getting this info?

That’s because Adobe hired new young and ambitious managers who had to come up with something so they wouldn’t be seen as completely useless. Even though some people at Adobe tried to reverse this trend—which will eventually sink Adobe—these brilliant young people, fresh out of school, are very proud of their 'invention' and will defend it until Adobe loses its customers. Then they’ll move on to help another company, as it usually goes.

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[Jindřich3403716436xp]

From my experience in the corporate world. It’s the same everywhere, like a carbon copy. Or do you think there’s some programmer behind it who decided to start ruining the lives of all Adobe product users? Obviously, there are people at Adobe who try to listen to users’ wishes, but someone has decided, as a matter of principle, not to comply with them. There are companies that almost collapsed when these modern-day saviors took over leadership positions. Bud Light, John Deere, Harley-Davidson, Jaguar, and many others. Or do you have another theory as to why this madness is happening? Can anyone sane and with some practical experience come up with such outrageous nonsense as these totally pointless, endlessly popping-up annoying popups?

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

So this is all conjecture? I suspect that Adobe doesn't do anything without some sort of market research. No manager, especially new ones, is going to put their career on the line with a unilatal decision.

The question in my mind is "who are they doing the research with and how wide of selection is the participants?". _Someone_ must like this stuff...

[Gavin at MRP]

I have talked to exactly ZERO people who like this.

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

In my opinion, it’s actually very simple. Adobe hired a manager ("developer") who had just finished school and decided that he would make history by adding pop-ups to all Adobe products. These pop-ups would explain the behavior of various functions that are absolutely obvious to 99% of users. To ensure his name would be remembered in a truly big way, he decided that these pop-ups should appear over and over again, preferably right in the middle of the user’s work. That way, users would really notice them and could thank this "talented" manager from morning till night, every single day. Of course, there are also people at Adobe who do have brains, and they’ve been trying from the very beginning to limit these pop-ups. But since this “smart” manager is apparently the child of an important shareholder, nothing can be done about it. On the contrary, the number of pop-ups just keeps growing. Who cares if users threaten to abandon Adobe? That doesn’t matter at all—companies like Jaguar, Bud Light, Harley-Davidson, and John Deere have already set out on the path of self-destruction, and Adobe is destined for no different fate.

[Gavin31332558259u]

Superb analysis – we seem to live in an era of wetwipes who can't think for themselves and have to take a Playskool Janet & John approach to everything they touch. But then I guess Adobe are now having to compete with the likes of (cough) Canva (spew) that is aimed at a generation that have absolutely no clue about design and have to have everything explained to them in politically correct pink and blue.

[Gavin at MRP]

In May, @Abhishek Rao asked me to send him sceenshots, demonstrating what these pop-ups are that we are talking about, and I've been sending them, but haven't gotten a single reply since ... just crickets 🦗

[Inspired Kindergartens]

Super frustrating - it covers a portion of my work and there doesn't seem to be an obvious "close popup" option - remains consistent until you click. I understand for new users (the "some users" mentioned earlier) but to punish frewquent users with this annoyance is just super frustrating enough to go searching and venting on a forum.

[Blueberrysoup]

Please for the love all that is holy in this world can this be removed?
Its been almost a year of this thread existing now and I cannot find any evidence of anyone that wants this feature to stay.

[Gavin at MRP]

I'm sorry — I forgot to jump in this thread on October 8, 2025, to mark the ONE YEAR anniversary of this NOT being solved.

[Blueberrysoup]

Unfortunately your one year anniversary can be applied to many of Adobes annoying 'features' 😞 often hitting the 5 or even 10 year mark in some cases!