InDesign Menu Glitch: Preferences and About Options Disappear on macOS Sonoma

[otterstyle]

When hovering over the "InDesign" menu (top of the screen), you can see “Preferences” as expected. However, when you hover over “File” or any other menu item and go back to"InDesign", the entry “Preferences” disappears, as shown in the screen capture. I thought I was going crazy as I couldn’t find my preferences until I realized that this is a glitch.

The “About InDesign” option also disappears.

I am using the newest Sonoma version 14.5 (23F79) and InDesign 19.4 on a MacBook Pro M3 Max. The bug is reproducible on a MacBook Pro M3 Pro running Sonoma version 14.1.2.

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[Eugene Tyson]

Never noticed before

On 14.4.1 here - and it does the same thing in InDesign 2022 

I just go out of it and come back in and. it's back again

Not really sure why - if you want preferences then press CMD K on the keyboard shortcut - that's how I get to them all the time. 

[leo.r]

Ha. Indeed I can reproduce it here, too.

You can submit this bug here:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs

[HARSHIKA_VERMA]

Hi @otterstyle,

Thank you for reporting the issue. It appears to be a glitch, and I have escalated it to the product team and logged a bug for it. If you've already raised a bug in the UserVoice, please share the link with us for tracking purposes so other users can also upvote the same uservoice.

Workaround: Click in the app window

Thanks,
Harshika