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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[Greg Wells]

i'll just add more fuel to the "dear god please make it stop" fire. 

one time, maybe vaguely helpful. repeatedly popping up all over your UI at random times is annoying AF and makes you less efficient. stop trying to annoy your customers. even just a place in preferences we could turn this "feature" off would be greatly appreciated. 

[calm_determination0D44]

I'm old enough to remember Micorsofts Clippy and how everyone hated that. Adobe thought, hey, lets make Clippy but worse.

Has anyone figure out the solution yet for disabling this "feature" yet?

[Park Street Printers]

I'm not sure if I did anything, but this stopped happening to me in all CC programs several months ago.

[FW Print Master]

Agreed. I cannot stand these pop ups. They interrupt my workflow constantly. 

[udo_b]

Please please please please give us a checkbox to turn off the notifications that pop up every time an image is updated. I also like to listen to music with Apple Airpods when I'm layouting, which then automatically switch from the iPhone to the computer every time the (video) notification pops up. That's really annoying.

[Doc Maik]

Latest version of ID installed and as of today, nothing has changed. It somehow got worse, because it seems to remember those tours you skipped and would probably only show them once, but if you update the version all the nightmare seems to come back. Since I updated a few days ago, mainly because of the "ID crashes when closing it and wants to send report" problem, I clicked so many pop-ups and tours away, but they keep coming. 

What is the effing intent of Adobe here, to annoy us to until we quit subscribing? 

[Doc Maik]

Update: Version 20.4.1 installed, the entire annoyance has become even worse. At least every time when you start ID, that is luckily just once a day for me, it pops up a black overlay telling you something and you have to click on "Skip tour". So they call the annoyance a "tour" (that is French for tower).

[alexpselamat]

Unfortunately, you cannot disable these disruptive pop-ups. You just have to live with it. Take a deep breath, cuss Adobe, close the pop-up window, and move on to the next pop-up. Adobe understands that this is disruptive, but they will not fix it (as evidenced in how long this thread is). Oh yea, now these pop-ups are also in Photoshop! Yay! 

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

That's why I use older versions where these pop-ups don't appear. But that makes paying for a regular subscription pointless for me. It’s probably time to say goodbye to Adobe.

[NerveBag]

I just wanted to post a quick thank you to Adobe. You can't imagine how much I love having this ******* hideous black box pop up almost every time I click on my Pages panel. It's just a joy to look at, and it absolutely WILL NOT GO AWAY without clicking on it. It's not timed or anything, and there's no way to turn it off no matter how many times I've seen it, so it's perfect to really ruin my workflow and my mood multiple times a week! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

And this isn't the only one! There are aggressive, anti-user-friendly boxes for ALL KINDS OF USELESS ****! Like when I export a file! That one's also really fun! I've only seen it about 17 million times, so I haven't had a chance yet to completely read through all the valuable information it contains, but I'm sure by the 34-millionth time I'll finally be able to absorb that critical message. *crosses fingers*

I'm so eager to continue to explore and find more fun easter eggs like this in the future as you continue to throw your waste-infected garbage directly into my face day after day. Yum!

It's high-quality products like this that I'm forced to use by my employer because of your wonderful monopoly that make me so glad I will eventually die. 

Thanks, Adobe! Top-notch work! Keep it up!

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

Well said, mate. 🙂 You said it funny, but otherwise it's incredibly annoying. I'm using InDesign 19.5.1, which doesn't have these stupid popups, so I don't even know what the current version is, and I don't care because some "very smart" manager doesn't want to stop showing his popups to show his life's work. When 19.5.1 stops working, I'm switching to Affinity.

[Gavin at MRP]

I use Affinity at home. Unfortunately, we still have to use Adobe at work, because of the stranglehold it has. But I encourage everyone I can to move to Affinity. I used Adobe for 30+ years, and really used to love and respect it. Now, they clearly care nothing for us long-time users.

[NMS2025]

Oh that's hilarious, man! thank you

[J-D-F]

Almost a year later...

[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.

By @Jindřich3403716436xp

[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?

[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 🦗