Share for Review Tools not working

[Crabster_Cake]

TL;DR: Clients can no longer highlight text in Share for Review (browser view). Only pin/shape options remain, making text amends invisible. Bug or feature removal?

Hi all, I’ve just come back from holiday and run into a nightmare with Share for Review in InDesign.

I shared a chapter of a book with a client using the built-in Share function. They did what they always do in the browser: highlight passages of text, add amends, pin comments, etc.

But this time the highlight tool is gone. The only options available are Place a Pin or Draw a Shape. As a result, all of my client’s highlighted amends are invisible to them... although the Review panel inside InDesign still recognises the highlights.

This makes it impossible for them to follow my replies or know which text I’m addressing.

Has the highlight feature been removed? I’ve noticed a UI change, so perhaps this is intentional? If so, why would such a critical function for book and text-heavy projects be taken away?

Thanks in advance for any clarity.


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[Crabster_Cake]

Not sure if it matters, but running the latest Chrome and Safari browsers on M4 Mac Mini (Sequoia 15.6) with InDesign 20.5

[ffiigg]

Me too. I'm working with Editors, who typically use all the mark up / annotation tools and those are now all missing. Only the comment and pin tool are available. Essentially Share for Review is no longer usable for anything with text. 

[Crabster_Cake]

Yep — that's exactly what I'm seeing too.

I don't know what to do — my clients loved this feature, as did I.

[Sarah Bundy24253010otvx]

This is part of an ongoing issue - please see this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-share-for-review-links-not-working/td-p...

[Crabster_Cake]

Thank you! Glad to hear it's part of a fix that's only a couple of days old — so it might be an oversight and it'll come back 🤞

So sorry to read you have so much riding on this feature. Hopefully they'll sort it.

[Sarah Bundy24253010otvx]

@Crabster_Cake , I sincerely hope and pray that they sort it out! We're 3/4 of the way through a year-long project and our reviewers are all set to review for final editing and approvals. Kinda hard to do a thorough review if you can't see everything that's been done... What's so frustrating is that Share for Review has gradually improved over the years and it was finally up to being about 95% reliable. Why fix what was finally not broken? 

[Anubhav M]

Hello everyone,

I am currently checking this behavior with the product team. I will update this thread as I have more info.

Feel free to reach out if you have more questions or need assistance. We'd be happy to help.

Anubhav

[Sarah Bundy24253010otvx]

Thanks, @Anubhav M .

You might want to update this thread as well:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-share-for-review-links-not-working/td-p...

[focused_Whisper5C09]

I am just confirming that this is happening due to an error and not an intentional UI change, as the OP speculated, because it was also my concern. Is it correct to assume this is from an error? Thank you.

[nate_HBI]

Is there any update to this, or a timeframe for when we should expect it to be fixed?

[Crabster_Cake]

Any update on this please @Anubhav M ?

This is getting very urgent now.

[Sarah Bundy24253010otvx]

@Anubhav M , Have you heard anything at all from the product team? My reviewers and I have been dead in the water all day. Is this going to be fixed? Or was this intentional and we're all just out of luck? Please let us know what's going on so we can plan next steps. 

[Sarah Bundy24253010otvx]

Okay - it's a new week. On 10/03/25, I logged out of the Creative Cloud, cleared my cache, and restarted my computer. Today (10/06/26) I logged in but nothing has changed - there are still no markups visible on the Share for Review files, all the tools are gone except the pin and pencil, and the dark navigation bar is still in the way at the bottom of the screen.

@Anubhav M , Do you have any updates for us?

[Natalie360765601qcg]

Same here @Anubhav M, extremely disappointing that there are still no updates on this matter when it's critical to so many people's workflow. It's a feature we heavily rely on. 

[Lorraine5FC5]

To have a feature like this just stop is very frustrating. This feature has been buggy since it launched but seemed like it was getting better, now this?

[Errick29413585h87n]

I work at a publishing company, we make manuals. Share for Review highlighting comments are critical to our process, and now it's gone! I'm stunned, in shock. I'm wondering why this was a good idea, how is this change adding to the experience?The pin or pencil tools have always been there and nobody uses them because they are the worst options. I have a 26 chapter book (664 pages) in the final stage of proofing that is now in limbo.

At the same time there is an issue with my shared links being unviewable to the people who've been using the Share for Review process for the past two years. We've wasted 2 days trying to figure out a 401 Unauthorized error; we couldn't figure out if this is Google Chrome problem or Adobe problem. Needless to say, my PC-using coworkers (Microsoft devotees) now have nothing good to say about Adobe.

You know what? Maybe they're right. The industry flips to new products when the old one just keeps giving us problems. Maybe Adobe InDesign needs to go the way of Quark XPress.

[Errick29413585h87n]

And now when I go to make changes to the comments that were made... I get: "We weren't able to save your changes, please try again." It makes no difference how many times I click resolved, it doesn't go away. Then when I try to Update Content, I get: "There was an error uploading the artifact." So I guess there is a disconnect to my own CC files. 

[Abhishek Rao]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for reaching out and for sharing the details. The team is aware of this behavior where the highlight option is missing from Share for Review, and a bug has already been logged for the same. The product team is actively investigating the issue to restore the functionality as soon as possible.

We'll update this thread once we have more information or a fix rolled out.

Really appreciate your patience and understanding in the meantime.

Abhishek

[Sarah Bundy24253010otvx]

Thank you, @Abhishek Rao .

Just to be clear,  there is a whole lot more missing than just the highlight tool.

Here's what we're seeing now:

Here's what it should look like:

The Strikethrough and the Replace tools are missing, and the Share button is gone along with the other Informational tools.

In addition, the page navigation bar is now a black bar that covers part of the page at the bottom - it needs to go back to the right sidebar where it was.

Thank you.

[rhc_here]

@Abhishek Rao  I am still having issues with all previous comments on the review files being unmapped. The comments are there but "unmapped". Can the original markups for the comments be restored? Thanks for your help on this. 

[marcosg77763356]

Trabajo con un equipo online que hace las correcciones de los textos. Para eso los comparto desde indesign con un link desde el panel REVISAR. Recientemente desaparecieron de la interfaz online (assents.adobe) las herramientas de texto T y T Que permitían seleccionar la frase y qué lugar exactamente se está corrigiendo. Ahora solo aparece el comentario y no se puede ver a qué parte del texto de la hoja pertenece.