InDesign 2025 SLOW

[Bigwig]

Just started using ID 2025 this morning and I'm noticing a LOT of lag time with pretty much any activity. I'm running a Mac Studio with an M2 Ultra, so it's not my computer. I've tried some simple troubleshooting but it is simply not responding like ID 2024. Help!

[johnfishlock]

Wonderful! It worked. Thanks Barb!

[DiogoM07]

Same happening to me. Mac Studio M2 Max.

I have rebuilt preferences but the lag continues.. Impossible to work like this.

[Bruno21902985df41]

Same issues same computer. When can we expect a fix?

[mladen_1931]

It's the same for me, now I installed beta version 20.1 and it works much better

[mabela001]

I don't see 20.1 available. Is that a beta version?

[aniri5j9ox8tw2ln]

Yes, I confirm the problem. Indesign 2025 is extremely slow. With every click, every mouse movement, eas with text editing, the beach ball always comes! I work with the quick view so that it is halfway bearable. But this is not a solution in the long run. Rebuilt the preferences doesn't work for me! Should i now reinstall ID and waste my time for an Adobe Problem?!

PLEASE UPDATE SO THAT THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED, THANK YOU!!

[roman__]

I confirm it's completely unusable on a maxed out iMac i9. Back to the old version, feeling blessed.

[mladen_1931]

Which version did you install?

[roman__]

I installed the latest version. But as I've said, grateful the old one is back for me, because I don't have time for this sh..... and have crazy deadlines. If you ask me, I hate these constant updates breaking things anytime they please. Try communicating this to the management!

I am for updates, yes, but let's do it properly. A roll-out with training, planned in the schedule, etc... All these updates may require hardware updates, what then, it's all a constant mess. Rosetta or native, this and that, games, games games...

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[mladen_1931]

And I'm for updates, but to work. I'm asking you which version do you currently have that works fine without lagging?

[roman__]

Ah, ok, it said ‘long term support’. Just checked, says “19.5”.

Certainly. Also these pop-up tutorials make me mad. It’s all nice and cute if you have time to burn, but rushing to finish a layout? No thanks!

I wish Adobe consulted with the ‘workforce’ before their releases. 😉

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[mabela001]

I tried all the suggestions.....Indesign is so sluggish, my productivity has taken such a hit with this update. This update is horrible!!!!

[mabela001]

I've tried all the suggestions. This update stinks. Even to create a new document I get the spinning pinwheel....Adobe  needs to fix this asap....it's taking me 3-4x as long to complete my tasks.

[mabela001]

UUUUUUUGH! Even the dropdown menu to select paper size to print takes 10 minutes between the lag and slow reponse from the program. 

[JRizzo]

Same. Indesign is effectively unuseable on a fast machine

[DragonfliesDesign · Accepted solution]

A couple of things that have helped - 

1. Turn off Preflight: Window/Output/Preflight. Unfortunately, they don't give us the option for it to be off by default so you'll have to remember to turn it off every document you open.

2. Turn off Font Previews: On a blank screen go to Preferences/Type/Type Options/  uncheck the box for "Enable in-menu Font Previews" then Restart InDesign to "make it so!"

So far, these have helped. I'm on Macbook M1 Pro with Sequoia 15.0

[Mickaël22235396uwqm]

It worked for me, thank you! 

[mohamed_3776]

This solution worked perfectly with me.
Thank you soo much, it was sooooooo slow

[cyclopsdx]

Same problem here since OS Sequoia 15.1.1 update yesterday, but this solution worked for me, thank you. I believe it was the Window/Output/Preflight which was causing the lag. Even so, I've switched off all of them and it's helped.

[PrintSolutions]

It is possible to set Preflight: Window/Output/Preflight to be off by default - if you do it when you don't have a document open, it will be the default for new documents.

[Sebastián_Cudicio]

Aaaarghh same here on M1 and M2.
Adobe is trying really hard to push away professionals and keep thos who where our clients...

[mabela001]

I have a blank document and I'm just trying to drag a image from my Mac dock to the page. But b/c it ALWAYS gives me the spinning pinewheel between any action, the placemnt always fails, it just doesn't work. This is just aweful adobe!@ @adobe-adobe  @Tcook 

[pat292345676vuf]

Hide the context bar. It really helped in my case.

[asatkuna2017]

I tried removing the preferences but that didn't work. I had to use ID 2024 instead.

[tomasius188]

For me, it's exactly the same. Every click, every selection of a text frame, everything is extremely slow. Just setting the cursor already causes the hourglass to start. It's absolutely unusable. And when you open the same file with the same performance and cache settings in InDesign 2024, on the same system, it's already much faster. I find it absolutely impossible that the performance has already dropped massively in 2024 and has now reached an unusable level at the lower end of the scale. No matter how powerful the Mac is.