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How can I disable the tool tips pop-ups?

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
July 8, 2018
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Hello,

I am trying to get into the swing of using Lightroom CC (which pales in comparison to the Lightroom Classic, IMO). I keep finding solutions to most of the problems I have had, however this particular one has me stuck.

Anytime I hover over a feature for a moment, an animated tool tip pops up. The pop-ups get in the way of my editing and are very annoying as they don't go away for all too long. This is really slowing down my productivity and of zero use to me since I already know how to use the features. I cannot find any way to make them go away when they pop-up, let alone disable them all together. Every search online only brings up the solutions for Photoshop, which the option does not appear in Lightroom CC.

Any help would be greatly appreciated otherwise I will have to abandon Lightroom CC as these are just all too distracting.

Thanks in advanced!

Take care,

-Justin

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Lauren36745749p3rp

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2025 and this apparently still an issue. Pop ups are literally covering up my image and interferring with me editing, repeatedly, and repeatedly the exact same suggestions. SO annoying. What gives Adobe?

Sameer K

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Hey, @Lauren36745749p3rp. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I understand the tooltips can be distracting for experienced users like yourself.

As other users in the thread above shared, the tooltips can be hidden. To do so, go to Edit/Lightroom (Win/macOS) > Preferences > Interface > under the Help Section > uncheck the boxes for 'Enable Animated hover tips', and 'Enable Feature tutorials and intros' and restart Lightroom.

I hope this helps.
Sameer K
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Janus Bahs Jacquet

Inspiring

Not sure when it was made possible to change this (Lightroom CC has changed a lot since 2018, or even since 2022 when the most recent posts were made – for one thing, it appears to now be called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for some reason), but it IS now possible to get rid of these annoying, intrusive, distracting, %#"€§!% tooltip popups that cover half the screen whenever you accidentally move your mouse near any part of the UI.

Go to Preferences > Interface and uncheck “Enable Animated Hover Tips” and “Enable Feature Tutorials and Intros” in the Help section. That did it for me – I can now move my mouse freely without popup-induced epileptic seizures.

The Dot

Participating Frequently

I just found out how to stop those annoying tool popups. I was in Illustrator and I went to Preferences> General> and about five checks boxes down is the ability to Show or not Show TOOL TIPS.

So y'all can stop the WHAAAA-Ambulance from showing up and get back to work. (I was whining the loudest my self )

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Alex24036100k74e

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Thanks for your entirely useless and wholly irrelevant response. No one is talking about Illustrator.

The Dot

Participating Frequently

MMM tell us how you really feel LOL

Jon Hillenbrand

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FYI, there are two types of tooltips. One is the photo tooltips which can be useful or annoying depending on the scenario. Those are the small white ones that fade in when you hover over a photo thumbnail such as on the bottom row of photos, in grid view in the Library Module or in grid view during photo imports. You CAN disable the white tooltips that fade in on the bottom row of photos. To do this, go to Edit > Preferences > Interface and uncheck the box marked "Show photo info tooltips". That will only disable the tooltip that appears on the bottom row of photos. You will still see tooltips in grid view while hovering over a photo in the Library Module or Import module.

Hope this helps some people.

Jon Hillenbrand

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The other type of tooltips I suspect some of you are referring to are the "hints" that pop up for example over the bottom of the main photo in the Develop Module if you use keyboard shortcuts like the + and - keys to alter Highlights or Shadows. These pop up briefly because it's possible to click on the word "Highlights" and modify the highlights with the + and - keys. Then you can adjust the Exposure slider with your mouse, and if you use the + and - keys, it will still be modifying the highlights unless you click on another word like Exposure. I believe this is so that people don't get confused as to why the + and - keys aren't automatically reassigned to the last slider that was touched. Not sure. These are most likely considered a functional part of the program and I seriously doubt they will ever make it possible to disable them. This also hints to you what is changing if you use Loupedeck or similar hardware as it's easy to bump a button like Reset and you don't know what just happened. So don't hold your breath for this functionality to be removed.

steven lees50590297

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High John,

Thankyou for your post. Niether of the scenarios you are resonding to describe the intrusive and annoying animations that pop-up in every-day use when initating common tools such as the selection, gradient, and pen tools. These animations load, blocking the tool selected, then fade.

As a learning tool, in a learning mode that can be switched off, they make sense. In normal work flow they are a distraction. Small annoyance to be sure but inncessant application of a small annoyance is literally a type of torture to the human brain. Think water-drip. Why don't the Adobe UI teams know that?

I think the myriad posts about this topic, so easily found in several forums, is a pretty good indication that Adobe seems to have lost touch with it's pro-user base.

The program, as it is now in 2022, seems more interested in showing off—like a braggart, over and over again—all the clever things it can do rather than help me do them.

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Liam23455100hqme

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+1 Not being able to turn these off is so annoying. I know what exposure is, I don't need the massive graphic popping up.

steven lees50590297

Known Participant

Here in 2021 this three year old topic is still relevant. Adobe is ever-more annoying to use. Drawing and painting with Adobe was fun! I won a MacWorld Award for business illustration in 2004. I LOVED illustrating with Adobe.

Not any more. Now using Adobe feels like a bad marraige. I want a divorce.

catherinew53541849

New Participant

I am posting this reply to state that it is January 4, 2022, and this is still not resolved. Awful feature.

aldermanswe

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Hello again, returning after 1.5 yrs with new insights about life : "Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you will get old..." and there will be annoying info pop-up's on adobe programs 😄

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phthomas33

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I cannot believe this is still a thing after all these years. Just let users toggle the tooltips feature on and off! It's not too much to ask.

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lō kē shannon

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Exactly!

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Ptweet

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Adobe is really going down hill. I honestly hope their competitors start eating up the marketshare. I feel like the devs aren't even using the programs

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