InDesign 2025 Lagging on MacBook Air with M3 Chip

[Tronski]

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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[Ranessa]

Yes have had no other problems since I removed all the 2025 updates from my computer and reinstalled 2024. Everything is working fast and as smoothly as before. There’s something wrong in the 2025 update.

Hope this helps!

[wotUwant]

I am very happy with the Mac OS. All other Adobe Apps – and other vendors' apps – are working as expected, I do not believe Adobe are even following this thread, as it has been well over a month now without comment from them or a solution to the issue. Many years ago I remember this kind of experience with Quark Xpress – when I and many others migrated to Adobe. Adobe needs to know how much designers love and rely on this package, perhaps they will spend some time on it then. However, that being said, I do not need regular updates, I just need the ones they upload to be fully tested.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@wotUwant

By any chance you've Magnet app installed? Turn it off.

[wotUwant]

Thank you for your message, interesting, but no I do not – unsure why I'd need it to be honest.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Thank you for your message, interesting, but no I do not – unsure why I'd need it to be honest.

By @wotUwant

I'm not a Mac user but a lot of people are using this app and reported instant fix after disabling it. Maybe not always related to the overall slowdown of InDesign - but sometimes it helped. 

[hm zurigo]

same with me: Mac mini M2 16gb RAM, indesign 2025 is extremely slow. Preferences are deleted, screen preview switched off, taskbar hidden. But ID 2024 works perfectly.