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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[Peter Kahrel]

No, you can't disable those. Every time you reset preferences or install an update you get those blue dots and Learn More items. Very annoying indeed. You could log a request at https://indesign.uservoice.com.

[Tim5FA0]

Thanks @Peter Kahrel 

As an avid Adobe supporter and user for many years, I have this dark feeling creeping in that it may be time to part ways. 

Perhaps the early adopters of Affinity etc. were not wrong.  Adobe, it seems, has lost its way.  And I'm sad about that.  I came to Adobe, and in particular InDesign because Quark had lost its way.  Perhaps Adobe's time has come.

[lizamijburgh]

I agree - I am actively looking into an alternative.

[HD Schellnack]

The thing is... Affinity has been bought by Canva, so the best alternative is more or less out. It is so weird that as a company you basically have a semi-monopoly on a solution that is used globally and that leads you to... let it die slowly. InDesign is the solution that basically every designer who does editorial works with. It's great software and could be made amazingly relevant for digital content with just a bit of love for ID and PDF and conversions, could be made relevant for Social Media with a bit of work spent on the old animation stuff, bringing in some of the Express or After Effects knowledge to Indesign. You could use KI to make design work smother and more efficient (replacement, GREP, text correction, placement of elements, basic design work etc), you could make ePub and online publications much stronger and smoother and so on. There is so much potential and potential revenue here, it's really sad that they don't polish the software and make it shine again. Because for one Print is everything but dead, so we need something like ID, and for the other, the platform is wonderful for expanding into the digital realm. But it feels like Adobe has given up on ID and there is one single person in a darkly lit room toiling along on giving us new features like, well, footnotes... :-D. I really love Adobe and Indesign especially, worked with it since the first Beta and with PageMaker before and I would so so so love to see them give this the energy and manpower to make it a great part of the CC suite. 

[Abhishek Rao]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out and for sharing your detailed thoughts and passion for InDesign. We truly appreciate your long-standing support and valuable feedback. It’s clear you care deeply about the software and its potential, and we understand the frustration of feeling like it's not living up to its full capabilities.

Regarding the "Learn More" pop-ups you’re seeing, they typically appear after a new software update or installation. The good news is that they should disappear after you’ve seen them 2-3 times. If they persist beyond that, feel free to let us know, and we can explore further troubleshooting options.

Please rest assured that we will also pass your feedback along to the product team. Your insights about improving InDesign for both print and digital content, along with suggestions for integrating more modern tools, are incredibly helpful.

We’re always striving to make InDesign better, and input from dedicated users like you is a big part of that process. Thank you again for your continued support and for being part of the InDesign community.

Best,  
Abhishek Rao

[Peter Kahrel]

@Abhishek Rao 

Those pop-ups reappear every time you install or remove a plug-in, and every time you reset InDesign's preferences. Especially the latter occurs pretty frequently, so in effect those pop-ups never really go away.

[Eugene Tyson]

I had a relatively large rant about this 7 years ago.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/an-open-letter-to-the-adobe-indesign-team/m-p/90...

It's gotten worse. 

It could simply  be a Help menu item

Explore New Features

and it triggers the popups 

It's very intrusive.

[Steve Werner]

There should just a preference which can be turned on to TURN THEM ALL OFF for people who don't need them.

[foobared]

@Abhishek Rao

I concurr with @Peter Kahrel , they do not "disappear after you’ve seen them 2-3 times".

They don't even disappear if you click "Got it".  They disappear for maybe 20 minutes, or maybe for the current document but they come back with a vengance.

The only acceptable answer is what @Steve Werner  says, to add a preference to turn them all off, permanently, once and for all. 

It can't be that difficult.  I know I'm not the only one becuase there is a long-standing complaint open on uservoice which I can only assume Adobe have decided to actively ignore instead of doing anything about it.

I can also only imagine that if InDesign is used internally at Adobe, then you guys must have a special version with this garbage turned off ?  Becasue otherwise I can't see your own internal designers putting up with it for more than 5 seconds ?

[Abhishek Rao]

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 in future updates.

Your input is invaluable in helping us improve the software, and we’ll keep you updated on any progress from the product team.

Best,
Abhishek Rao

[foobared]

" they can be an inconvenience for some users" @Abhishek Rao ?

I would love to meet a user who is not inconvenienced !

Please, don't annoy your users more .... spare us the corporate-speak, just admit Adobe got it wrong.   The community would actually respect you for that.

[jeffhalmos]

How hard is this to program a checkbox to turn this unprofessional oversight off? Seriously? It's bad enough InDesign never remembers my Workspace setting, which then causes the popups to start over again when I reset my worksp...you know what, nevermind, this is insane.

[Eugene Tyson]

@Abhishek Rao another one to add to the collection

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-disable-persistent-adobe-cc-library-tutor...

Hope all this feedback is helpful to the team - we certainly would love to see a better UI/UX for InDesign and anything we can do to help out is really great to know that the team are working hard on it. 

If there's anything else you need please let us know.

Thanks

[jeffhalmos]

It's December 10. Just add a checkbox to allow us to turn them off. We'll wait...

[danpinho]

A notification that my sub will increase i received. The fix for this problem that wasn't there 6 months ago, i didn't. 
"We’re looking into ways to improve this experience" NO YOURE NOT

[sirthomasdrake]

How about you just give us an option to GET RID OF THEM?! This is absolutely unhelpful and it interrupts our work. 

[brotherb54239633]

Are you serious? I called support today because I assumed there was a checkbox in the preferences somewhere, then the guy wanted me to share my screen so he could disable the context bar which he assured me was the way to turn off the messages. Even Adobe doesn't understand their own software.

[MK178]

"some users"???  how about any user that has been using the Adobe products for YEARS!!!   Please DO NOT  assume that there are not a lot of seasoned users who are highly bothered with the pop-ups and will be getting to the point of jumping ship. You are no longer a monopoly, and can go the way of Quark Xpress. 

[jeffhalmos]

All Adobe has to do is make InDesign open up every single time in the Workspace we often take a great deal of time setting up, like it should. If you can once and for all fix this major bug, the popups won't happen anymore.

[John 123412341234]

Hallo,

is there still no Option to deactivate this pop-ups?
They disturb my workflow heavily.
I dont understand who had the idea to place
pop-ups everywhere.

Please put those pop-ups in the Software
the developers uses and lets see how he
loves it.

[alexpselamat]

@Abhishek Rao

It's been 6 months since your reply. Any update on this "Learn more" pop-up window removal?

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

So? User opinions don't matter? Probably not. Just managerial crap.

[jeffhalmos]

But the shareholders!!

[Jessica35061278r4md]

@Abhishek Rao for longterm users - these "tours" are disruptive to our workflows. This is professional software, used by many trained individuals, please treat us with some respect and allow us to turn off tips so we can deliver quality work to our clients faster.