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InDesign 2025 Lagging on MacBook Air with M3 Chip

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October 14, 2024
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Something terrible happened after InDesign upgrade to 2025 version, MacOS's spinning beach ball spins every time the cursor moves, and InDesign is lagging soooo badly (I work on MBA 15” M3, RAM 24GB, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1). Have you experienced something like this? Is there any solution for this?

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Correct answer tristangreatrex

I found that once I moved my cursor off the area I selected, InDesign responded. So I fixed the problem by Preferences>Interface - deselect 'Highlight Object Under Selection Tool'. It all works fine now. InDesign is no longer slow - Sequoia 15.2 / MacBook Pro M1 Max / 64GB

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olivery83416487

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New update just released. Haven't had a chance to download and try just yet but haven't seen anyone report anything new either.

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camwork

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Have still the same problems. It's super slow!

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hnks14

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I would advise to stay on 2024 version. Indesign 2025 has serious issues when it comes to export or even when you open the file again. the links are missing everytime. Same with Illustrator even on the new update.

wotUwant

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19 days since I joined/contributed to this discussion, I would like to know if anyone from the Adobe InDesign team are aware of this issue, there was a bug in the new Illustrator and it was sorted in a day with the 29.0.1 fix - There has been a large amount of professional discussion and important feedback for Adobe here, but it seems to have fallen on deaf ears. I am still working in the previous version and it is working fine - 2025 InDesign is still on 20.0. Any ideas anyone?

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Ricardo281378713tcu

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From the looks of this post, it seems that only 1% of the stuff that gets said here actually goes up on the ladder and eventually to the team responsible. As someone said earlier, Id is not something that gets a lot of attention, so I guess development on this is much slower that in something like Ai, that has all the AI gimmicks, which probably require a lot more devs.

I would expect an update maybe at the end of this month, after 30 or some days of the initial 20.0 release.

wotUwant

Participating Frequently

Yes I agree, and the AI extras they keep adding aren't added value in my opinion either. I use InDesign probably about 60% of my working day - pretty important that it works.

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Nikki26325086ozb7

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Glad to know I'm not alone. I have went back to the earlier version as well.

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olivery83416487

Participant

I had the same issues and went back to the previous version. Oddly my coworkers have no issue at all w/ ID2025. The only difference we can think of is that I'm the only one currently on Sequoia (they are still on the Sonoma).

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defaulte1mh5hez2ltc

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I've also had this exact issue, have not found a solve for it but you're not alone. Resetting preferences does help but only for a very short time before the beach ball is back on every click. Anything typography related seems to have the worst lag.

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Jerry31957849ariv

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Same for me. Uninstalled immediately

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Ranessa

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Everything is working perfect just as soon as I uninstalled.

They need to fix.

Glad I’m not the only one complaining.

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wotUwant

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Has anyone had an update on this please? It seems to have gone quiet.

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Ranessa

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I just went back to all 2024 software and problem solved. Adobe needs to fix for this kind of MacBook Pro.
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wotUwant

Participating Frequently

Thanks. Yes that is what I have done for now. It seems like Adobe has released the 2025 update without fully testing.

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Ben__P

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Having the horrible lag in Indesign 2025 as well. MacBook Pro M1 Max with 32 gigs of RAM. 2024 ran great, 2025 is incredibly frustrating. I wonder if this did not show up in the beta? If it did, not sure why it would be released as is as it is pretty close to unusable.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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Are only Macs affected?

I've installed 2025 yesterday to make a new version of my tool - and on a PC - haven't experienced any problems? And the person who asked for the new version - also haven't reported any problems - on a PC as well?

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HD Schellnack

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Sounds like that is part of the problem, something with AS SoCs. All the reports seem to be on M1 onward. But than again, on a Mac, AS is what you (mostly) have these days. We have two old iMacPros somewhere, I could check them next week.

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thomas schweiger

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I'm joining in here, I have the same problem with a macbook air 13” M2, 16GB RAM, macOS Seqoia 15.0.1.

InDesign 2025 is hardly usable, even with the simplest documents or editing paragraph and character formats I see a beach ball, everything is slow, sluggish and jerky - an absolute disaster for people who depend on this software and have to earn their money with it ... But of course the costs for CreativeCloud are always collected on time for software that only works partially. Really annoying.

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Laubender

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@thomas schweiger said:

"I'm joining in here, I have the same problem with a macbook air 13” M2, 16GB RAM, macOS Seqoia 15.0.1."

Hi Thomas,

I wonder if the problem is perhaps a lack of memory in combination with the macOS version.

Adobe says minimum requirement is 8 GB RAM (16 GB RAM recommended), but still…

And there is no mention of macOS Seqoia 15 there:

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/system-requirements.html

Currently I'm running InDesign 2025 on macOS 12.7.1 on a MacBook Pro from 2021 with an M1 chip.

I see no lack of performance in comparison to InDesign 2024 on the same machine. But to be honest, currently I do not do any big production work with it. That's too early in the product cycle without any bug fixes.

FWIW: What makes InDesign sluggish could be a VPN conncetion where a local InDesign document is permanently looking for placed images that are stored on network drives accessed through the VPN… ( not to speak of documents you open on the network server through a VPN )

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

wotUwant

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Jumping in here, the problem is with the app not the Mac - I have a Mac Mini (2024) with Apple M2 Pro chip and 16GB ram, I am running Sequoia 15.0.1. All other apps work fine as does InDesign 2024 v19.5. Working totally locally - but I have a very high speed fibre connection. I rely on InDesign probably about 60% of my working day, I will be using ID 2024 for now and waiting for Adobe to sort this hopefully.

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