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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[jeremyw54803074]

Thankfully, is is easy enough to 'hide' the context bar. The approach of having a pop-up appear over where you are working is a UI trend that I will never understand. A lot of software does this today and I can't imagine anything more invasive and off putting from a user experience standpoint, but I digress...

Hiding the context pop up doesn't solve the entire problem. How do we disable all of the pop ups? Every few minutes a dynamic tool tip or blue pop up appears and I can't figure out how to make it stop! Other Adobe apps have a disable option for... I believe it is called "rich tool tips", but not in InDesign?

Adobe, undersand that a large number of us use this software professionally, quickly, and under time constraints. We DO NOT want to click an "X" or "Got It" ever few minutes. Do you understand this concept?

[MilanSperka]

And the worst part is that you need to go through this whole nonsense everytime the software crashes, which is a ridiculous amount of times. Adobe, PLEASE CATER TO YOUR USERS who have been using this software for 20+ years, not the kids who need a graphic for their Tiktok account. These people can learn from tutorials, the way we all did. OMG, I sound old.

[rachel_6468]

I too agree !! we already get the full package i don't need the fake advertisement popups, especially . Even with the newest version of Indesign, they can arrive after a save or try to populate during the end of the save process and it cant often get in the way of the auto trying again like after I export, and causes crashes

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

The question was on hiding the new feature popup, not the contextul tool bar. 

I don't think there is a way to disable them but usually if you click "Got It", they will not show up again until you reset your preferences. 

[Krysztoff]

This is exteremely annoying. It does popup every single time for some reason. I know they want to create awareness on the new tools, but it doesn't need to be in a way it starts to feel like spam. 

[radwagon]

agreed. i've probably clicked "got it" 40 times, and keep getting that same dude's mug invading my space. just as bad now any time i undo multiple steps, and get the history panel popping up with its own tool tip.

[Steve K Walker]

They do popup time and again after clicking GOT IT.
So annoying. So frustrating.

[RLChris121]

Exactly - it's not the context bar that was reported in this thread as causing the issue. (For context bar control - you can click the [ ... ] and drag context bar to a new location and pin it to a less annoying location - such as the bottom of the page seems to work well.)

This thread was about the pop-up ads covering part of your workspace while trying to be productive.  Seems like clicking on "Got It" will disable the Adobe pop-up banner temporarily until the next feature is pushed thru. Because they are back again after doing just that previously.

Nothing quite like picking an image to nudge it precisely into place and then a surprise pop up banner covers your work and you lose selection focus and the view of your selected object becomes obscurred with the banner now being the unintended selected object! Every bit as welcome as someone intentionally bumping your mouse/arm while trying to do your work.

Why not just have links to highlight new features that customers can view voluntarily at a convenient time, rather than interrupting your customers with an ad that covers their work while they are trying to complete a project or assignment?

Just my 2 cents.

[Park Street Printers]

At least I'm now paying $89.99 a month for this...

[RLChris121]

5 Days since my last post --

As a follow up, just wanted to say that clicking "Got It" is a mere postponement at best. The pop-up banner will return to get in the way of your active workspace again and again, and you will lose focus of any selected items when you click on the pop-up to get rid of it. Continues to be a time waster and a seemingly intentional annoyance. Have clicked "got it" twice on the same document in one day and it is back yet again. Imagine the feedback if the pop-ups also appeared on this comment page?

[Martine]

Happy to see more people are having this issue, hopefully it will be fixed soon.. It seems like InDesign has started resetting my preferences every now and then, resetting the workspace as well as cycling through the same set of feature pop-ups. So annoying when working on multiple displays, hunting down the pop-up that's preventing me from moving my image.

[ryan27804907jfpa]

This on top of many other bugs.

[Steve Werner]

The feature is not just in InDesign. It's at least in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.

It's likely not going away because, for many people, it provides a quick contextual way of choosing common commands.\

I suggest going to the InDesign User Voice, and request a Preference to Disable the Contextual Menu so it cannot be invoked.

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests

[Frans v.d. Geest]

It was about 'whats new hint' above the Contextual menu, that you can simply disable.

[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.