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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[PrintingServices]

for many people amateurs, it provides a quick contextual way of choosing common commands.

[Krysztoff]

By the time these amateurs become professionals, they'll likely put a post in this thread how annoying they find these popups. It's been going on for years, this problem.

[JaFo]

Here is the solution for the problem (Indesign version 20.0).
Go to Preferences -> Advanced Type -> Turn off all "Type Contextual Controls".

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

The problem wasn't the contextual controls--it was the giant banners advertising new features. 

[Steve K Walker]

Seems like Adobe are just going to ignore any complaints about this.
This is so intrusive and annoying.

[VaughanD]

That isn't the solution at all @JaFo , if you unselect those you will just lose easy control over contextual alternates when typesetting.

[Ivo K5]

nope

[baadtaste]

Yes - did that - no result

[Ivo K5]

TERRIBLE!!!!

happening all the time in this version of indd!!!

this and that blue pop ups..

mental!

 

[evan_7519]

The one that really bugs me is the history panel popup randomly when I hit "ctrl+z" to undo. Even when I click "OK" to acknolwdge the popup, the history panel is still there, dead center of my screen, until I click that away as well. 

[evan_7519]

Agreed. Please, please do something about this. Is there anywhere else we can raise the profile? I don't mind the popups after install. Fair enough. But then give me an option to turn them off after I've gotten my fill. Please. 

[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...