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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[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.

[dublove]

But, in fact, you didn't bring any good news.

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

This is really good advice from community expert.

[brotherb54239633]

No. The entire experience is broken. I use the entire creative suite. You used to be able to paste an illustration from IL into AfterEffects without issue, or paste text from Id into Illustrator, or render from Ae without third party solutions to bugs that don't get addressed for YEARS. But the UX is the worst part. If you update it loses all your preferences bringing back popups and windows and hnts and suggestions no one wants. I could open illustrator and it will check the licensing check making me wait until adobe has verified that I'm a paything customer. Ok, I get it. But if I pay yearly then you should only have to make me wait ONCE A YEAR. And you should never make me wait for multiple apps. All of your apps should know already if one of them has confirmed licensing. But the stupid tips and suggestions are the single most infuriating addition to ALL adobe software, and the fact that you can't turn them off is 100% dark design.

[rszeles]

This is infuriating. I got online hoping to find a simple say to disable these pop-ups. I'm going to go back to using an older version of InDesign. It is beyond belief that there is no way to turn this off. Does Adobe realize the amount of distraction and extra time it takes to deal with these Pop-up suggestions?

[michellep42148198]

The pop ups are driving me insane. And I come to this page to find out if I can turn them off, so I can get back to work... and I'm hit with two more pop-ups from adobe.com. Sooo, does that Adobe thinks everyone wants to click through a forest of pop-ups every five minutes, everywhere they go?

InDesign is suddenly infuriating, in this latest version. I can't believe it isn't possible to disable them.

[brotherb54239633]

new year. same old adobe, same old popups, same old lack of response. they could fix this today and refuse.

[apollomoonfire]

I feel your pain. It seems like all tech is getting worse at it gets older. I am hoping soon that there is a visionary in Adobe to can adopt the mantle of "Make Adobe Great Again" and really work with it's users to empower them and support them. I just completed one of their surveys and I'm not very hopeful. For one thing they introduced the idea of "membership" which is just a fancier, more "upscale" term for subscription. I just want tools that work at a reasonable price that are customizable to my production needs. It was once this way in a galaxy far, far away.

[Jani Kemppinen]

YES INDEED these pop-ups are EXTREMELY annoying! Another thing that drives me crazy is the Workspace setting that resets itself randomly very often. Sadly, after 30 years of working with Adobe software, I can not move my workflow to any alternative because of the company policy (I get the work files from outside). Adobe products have turned into CPU power eating monsters, especially After Effects.

[jeffhalmos]

That's the real issue here: the Workspace reseting all the time. If it worked as it should the popups wouldn't happen anymore. But the Workspace issue has been an ongoing problem for years. Apparently not a priority. Stunning. 

[brainfade619]

I Love Paul Tranni, but his popups in my apps are driving me nuts!!!!

How do I remove the abobe popups!!! Ughhhhh

[radiant_wish4756]

The below tutorial window (scrrenshot) for Text to image pops up every single change I make to scale an image, which is not releavant and frustrating.

There is no way to click got it or any buttons on the pop up. I have to press enter to get rid before i can make a single change to scale, and it comes up again.

Please advise how I can get rid of this, it is affecting my work, I like to preview the scale change and do this gradually to fit in the the document.

Many thanks,

[leo.r]

The below tutorial window (scrrenshot) for Text to image pops up every single change I make to scale an image, which is not releavant and frustrating.

There is no way to click got it or any buttons on the pop up. I have to press enter to get rid before i can make a single change to scale, and it comes up again.

By radiant_wish4756

that's some unusual behavior.

try these general troubleshooting steps, especially cleaning caches:

https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/

will it make a difference?

[radiant_wish4756]

Thank you for the advice 🙂

I have tried this, and now looks like it has stopped (at least for the time being).

Will see if this is a continuing fix

[marthap98667997]

Hello Community,

weiß jemand wie man diesen Link/mit Foto im Indesign entfernt? Er erscheint immer wenn ich einen Bildrahmen erstelle oder einen vorhandenen berühre, also andauernd ... nervt!

Danke jetzt schon für eure Hilfe!

 

[jeffhalmos]

Du kannst nicht. Adobe hat beschlossen, dass Ärger ihr zweiter Vorname ist.

[Jay29066049qzrt]

For me, this has become a hard stop. A forced tutorials locks up in a state I can't dismiss, and I'm not able to make use of the program at all. My only way out is through by closing out the program through task master. I've uninstalled and reinstalled to no effect. Suggestions welcome.

[jeffhalmos]

You can't and Adobe doesn't care. This has been going on for almost a year with many updates since it first became a nuisance. 

What's happening, and is more important, is that InDesign is not remembering our personalized Workspace setting. It seems random when it forgets. And so each time it thinks you're new. Mindbending.

[danpinho]

Congrats Adobe, 7 months later and still no solution. But when it comes to increase Subs prices…