Need help: InDesign very very slow with spinning beachball

[pkazmercyk]

Having a world of trouble running InDesign. It's impossible for me to work sometimes. I get the spinning beachball almost constantly. This happens when I:

• Switch to InDesign from another app
Once I actually get ID to open:
• Click any palette to open or close it
• Switch between open ID docs
• Click on objects or text
• Copy and paste from other apps or within ID
• Select a tool
• Change a color

Virtually anything I try to do.

I just upgraded to a new iMac because I thought the age of my old one was the problem. Apparently not. It was brutally slow on the old iMac, taking 30 seconds or more to do any of the above. On the new iMac, that's down tp maybe 15 seconds, but still incredible frustrating.

I followed some online ideas but nothing seems to make any difference.

One thing I tried to do was to trash IDs preferences but of a few methods I tried, I couldn't find the pref files / folders referred to.

There are several posts here of people with the same problem. The potential solutions offered have not helped me so far.

Any additional help with this will be greatly appreciated.

[Mike Witherell]

What version of InDesign are you referring to? What is your macOS version?

Are you operating files on a cloud-based file storage?

Can you consider downgrading to 2024 version?

Have you consulting this troubleshooting compendium?

[Bill Silbert]

Do you have the Magnet app active? If so disable it.

[leo.r]

Many users report extreme InDesign 2025 slowness on Mac. While the suggestions you received from others did help some users, in most cases they don't make a difference, unfortunately. In this case, the only known solution is to revert to InDesign 2024 until this issue is fixed.