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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[jane-e]

@annief61299112 

I've moved your post from Creative Cloud desktop to the InDesign forum.

Jane

[apollomoonfire]

Really Adobe? What is going on? Why didn't you even THINK about providing a disable for this situation? Who is running your ship and making decisions? We have been using InDesign for years (although I do miss Quark which was fun to use, a lot, and FreeHand before that got killed too). This inconvenience is simply UNACCEPTABLE. We pay A LOT  of money to use your software, so isn't it about time you start respecting them and supporting them? This rectification needs to happen yesterday.

[JPatGP]

Exact same thing is happening here, very similar circumstances- clean install of Win 11, followed by clean install of Adobe CC. Seems like it's a bug.

[DTWhom]

+1 for wanting the option to turn off all "help", "tour", and "explanation" tooltips, including the one that CONSTANTLY tells me I should go sign up for the beta. If I get stuck, I know how to search the web for a solution. I don't particularly enjoy being harrassed with tips for features I'll never use.

[jennlongs]

Another "inconvenienced user" here (as @foobared said earlier, I can't imagine anyone who isn't inconvenienced by this). You've been getting feedback for a month now. Get these annoying popups out of our face so we can get work done and focus on InDesign projects rather than focusing on cleaning crap off the desktop (including off of right in front of what I'm working on, over and over). You've had enough time to patch the software to turn these things off or provide a preference to turn them off. Post an update RIGHT NOW.

[christopherm58039141]

Does anyone know how to turn these off permanently in all Adobe Products?

[Chad Chelius]

It is my understanding that after you dismiss the pop ups 3 times, they will no longer appear.

[Martine]

That's not the case for me at least. Every couple of days for the past month or so the cycle of pop ups reset, often combined with my workspace being reset. Such an annoying feature when it's not properly working.

[Bill Silbert]

The pop ups are, unfortunately, with us to stay. They are not supposed to come up more than once per session. I’ve also not seen a rhyme or reason as to when they’ll show up. If you work while you’re not signed in to your Adobe account they won’t appear. However, Creative Cloud does require periodic signins to work so signing out and in might be more trouble than it’s worth.

[amyy88994878]

It reminds me of the Winking Paperclip from MS products. (I'm old enough to remember it.)

It is even worse because it's essentially an in-app advertisement. Typically you don't have in-app ads for products you pay for. It's like how Amazon tries to upsell you on other things when you're playing music in their player. Well, "played" as everyone I know dropped AMusic. Too much of these intrusions, and users will depart.

[matteo_1073]

anytime i click on a image in indesign 2025 it appears the artificial intelligence pop up on my screen, i tried to click on it to see if it would be gone after but it isn't. what can i do??

[gregs_grafik]

@Adobe, This is one of the MOST ANNOYING additions to the app ever. There NEEDS to be a preference setting for this and it should govern ALL tips and hints within the app.

These dumb things keep popping up despite repeated dismissals. Make it GO AWAY.

[Peter Kahrel]

There is a thread here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-disable-quot-learn-more-quot-pop-ups-in-i...

But ranting there won't change anything.

To request a change, add your voice to the problem in Uservoice.

[DERJUNG]

is there a way to make this constant tutorial disappear? I don't know how many times I've clicked through it and yet it keeps coming back way to often. I like working with the CC Library, but these pop-ups in the window are just annoying.

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[Abhishek Rao]

Hi @DERJUNG,

Thank you for reaching out! I completely understand how frustrating it can be to deal with persistent pop-ups, especially when you're trying to focus on your work.

The tooltips you’re experiencing typically occur after an application upgrade, a fresh installation, resetting preferences, or when adding plugins. They’re designed to help users get acquainted with the features, but they can indeed become a bit overwhelming. Generally, these prompts should only appear for the first 3-4 times you launch the application after one of those changes.

If the pop-ups continue beyond this initial period, please let us know. We’d be happy to explore additional options or settings to help reduce the frequency of these tutorials. Your feedback is valuable, and we appreciate your patience as we work to enhance your experience with the CC Library.

Thank you for being part of our community!

Best, 

Abhishek Rao

[laurie_8375]

I am experiencing the same thing! In Illustrator, every time that I open the library the pop-up tour begins. I click thru and it still does it the next time it is opened. I am really tired of it. I use the library constantly. It started with the last update. Using v29.0

[Abhishek Rao]

Hi @laurie_8375,

I hope you're doing well! Thank you for sharing your experience with the "Learn More" pop-ups in Illustrator. This appears to be a widespread concern among users after recent updates, with many reporting similar issues.

For more information, you can check out the ongoing discussion in this community post: How to Disable "Learn More" Pop-ups in InDesign.

I appreciate your feedback, and I hope we can find a resolution soon!

Best,
Abhishek Rao

[Sar5CD1]

These tutorial pop-ups have been cluttering up my Illustrator and InDesign for MONTHS. Adobe, it's utterly infuriating. Please create a way to switch these off entirely.

[brotherb54239633]

Just so you know, adobe is wholly unresponsive. They let a critical rendering bug in After Effects sit unaddressed for YEARS. Everyone with an M1 Mac had to buy a third-party plugin for functionality promised at release. They didn't solve it until after the M2 was released. They even had one of the VPs show up to the thread to complain about the complaints and pretend that the comments regarding their broken software was abusive. So in summary, you can hurt Adobe's feelings but they won't fix anything in response.

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

I really hate this. I need to work, not to close all these stupid popups all the time.

[chapter4abcdefg]

while you are working on fixing this CONSTANT disruption of our work ... don't fotget illustrator, photoshop and Acrobat too ... it's unbelievably annoying to be constantly and repeatedly forced to click these away.

[Gavin at MRP]

+1 on removing the annoying pop-ups!

I would also like to disable the blue oval SHARE button at the top. This is a feature that we never use, because our workflow differs from this method. I've wanted to remove that since they first introduced it. 

It feels like the app has gotten terribly bloated, and slow. 

It would be nice if most newly added features had options to choose to use OR NOT. 

I'm not against new features being added, but would love to get a faster, more nimble app by turning off features which are not relevant to my my workflow.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Can't you just ignore the share button? 

[Gavin at MRP]

No.

Incidentally, this is just my work account. I've been using Adobe since the 80's (since before some of the apps were even owned by Adobe). But about 2 years ago, I dropped Adobe completely in my home business, and only use it at my day job. 

There were 2 determining factors in this: 1. The subscription model (I got tired of shelling out $700 year), and 2. The pervasive attitude that what bothers the Users of this paid app does not matter.

There used to be an app called QuarkXPress, which dominated the Desktop Design Market. Quark got the idea that they were irreplaceable, and stopped listening to their user base.

Today, only a very small percentage of designers use QuarkXPress, with estimates placing it at less than 5% of the design market due to the dominance of Adobe InDesign. 

Adobe needs to take a lesson. Other industry quality apps are coming up, ready to step in.

[apollomoonfire]

Gavin is right. We can't just ignore the blue Share button. The more important question is why is there at all? Why are be constantly being Share-shamed? Perhaps Adobe executives get a stock bump every time someone hits the Share button? Philosophically, people who use this software already know how to share their work with audiences we need to reach. At least in Illustrator and Photoshop, after much complaining, we can at least make the Share button gray like the rest of the interface, rather than a blue pimple. If you're using InDesign or any of the Adobe apps for professional designers such as ourselves, we don't need Share-shaming. We don't need to see it. We don't need distractions. (Like we don't need Notifications or, as I like to call them, Notif***ations.). We are distracted enough with all that our contemporary life has, so it really should be on Adobe to make our lifes be more focused to do what is important, and not celebrate their belief that I should be Sharing everything I do at every moment. Ok. I apologize, a bit of a rant. But Adobe has grown way to big for their britches IMHO and we need to constantly claw back.