Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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[ID-4274243] InDesign clearing Undo stack frequently
Undo not working, InDesign 21.02x64
16.12.2025
As recently as yesterday, it was possible to perform more than 50 undo actions, but today only 1–2 steps are available, and my colleagues are experiencing the same issue.245 votesFix for this issue is available in the latest InDesign 2026 release (21.2.0.30) and InDesign 2025 LTS release (20.5.2.078), please update to this release from CCD app.
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Adobe InDesign team
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[ID-4257184]InDesign 2025(v20.0) Performance issues: Delay or beach balls on basic operations
Problem:
InDesign Performance issues: Delay or beach balls observed on basic operations on Macintosh
Steps to Reproduce:
- We have reproduced one scenario in which the existence of the Documents Font Folder and Contextual Task bar results in some slowness.
- Other workflows causing slowness are being investigated - No reliable reproducible steps
Impacted workflows:
- Switching to InDesign
- Open/Closing of Document
- Edit/Scroll/Copy-paste/Highlight operation on Text
- Text disappears, illustrations disappear
- Imported or added text turns black until a style is applied.
- Font menu highlight not following my mouse movement
- Text will not change fonts until I click the mouse inside or outside…
167 votesWe have made some Performance Improvements in the latest InDesign Release 2025 (Version 20.1), available via Creative Cloud Desktop application. This issue has also been fixed as part of performance improvements.
Please let us know if you still face slowdown while doing basic operations in this latest InDesign release.
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Adobe InDesign team
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Undo ocassionally not available
Please fix undo. Version 21.3.0.60 on Mac, Undo functionality is disabled from time to time when working on larger and very complex document. No warning, just grayed out Undo in the menu. As far as I remember, it is not possible to quit the app without crash after this happens (twice or three times a month in my case). It is extremely frustrating and annoying bug.
It is perhaps the same bug reported as “[ID-4274243] InDesign clearing Undo stack frequently” and falsely claimed as FIXED.
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Workspace resets every time I open (InDesign 2026)
On the new InDesign (v21.0) all of my workspaces have been reset and aren't saving properly every time I open a new document. I even set up my docked tabs and tab groups and saved them to a NEW workspace within a fresh 2026 file, and it reset to a default state next time it's opened. It seems to ignore all of the tools I've chosen to remove from their tab groups and opens with all of the default tools within those tab groups.
The screenshot with all of the icons is what all of my workspaces revert to upon…
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ID grey screen after awake
Already an older version of ID had this bug, but years ago the screen was white grey, now dark greay.
- Mac sleep, 2. Mac awake, 3. all ID screen is dark grey, even if refreshing or changing zoom or position. 4. I can select elements, but I see only the blue selectors, not the content or background. 5. need to quit ID and to restart to work as usual. 6. not seeing the content I sometimes do not know If I should save or not – risking to loose the work.
Indesign 21.3 with Max OS 15.7.5
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InDesign for macOS clearing Undo stack
- Adobe InDesign 2026 v21.2.0.30 for macOS
- Restart macOS, Open document in InDesign, and work with document normally.
- Undo should remain available, with a long history of undo steps while working on a document.
- During the course of working with the document at some point the history will clear and undo will become unavailable via keyboard shortcut, menu, or the panel.
This behavior is similar to the behavior described in ID-4274243 (https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/50813147--id-4274243-indesign-clearing-undo-stack-frequent?linkId=100000398096855) but unlike that issue, this is affecting users on macOS and is present in v21.2.0.30.
Two users on our staff are affected, both are running macOS 26.3…
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[ID-4264855] Issue with Animated Zoom in GPU
New PC GPU zoom doesn't seem to centre the zoom on the cursor leading to not super useful behaviour (you have to zoom and then drag with the hand tool to get back to what you were originally trying to zoom into). It's very disorientating.
5 votesThe fix of the issue is now available in the latest InDesign 2025(v20.5.0.048). We recommend you upgrade to the latest version for the fix.
If you are unable to see the update, go to the Creative Cloud application click on the context menu on the top right, and click on Check for App Updates.
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Adobe InDesign Team
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Critical workflow break: period in filename makes Save As unusable after Tahoe upgrade — no workaround
Area: macOS 26 Tahoe – Save / Export Dialog with Indesign
Summary:
In macOS 26 Tahoe, the Save As filename field does not pre-populate when opening a Save As or Export dialog in Adobe InDesign. When manually retyping the filename, if the name contains a period followed by a space, the entire field is cleared the moment the space is typed. This does not happen with filenames that contain no period. No known workaround resolves this.Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a document in Adobe InDesign whose filename contains a period (e.g. "April 12.26Quarter Page HorSN.indd")
2. Go…1 vote -
Pages panel not scrolling to allow all pages to be accessible
InDesign v21.3 (Updated last week, no issues until today. Daily use)
This morning when I opened InDesign, I discovered I was unable to scroll and select the last page of the document. The top half of the last page is visible through the bottom bar of the panel where the number of pages is displayed but unclickable. This prevents a change of parent page style, addition of pages in the correct parent style or the selection to override the parent page style.
I have tried resetting my workspace, restarting Indesign and changing panel views. The bottom row remains elusive.
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[ID-4253441]"Don't Save" and "Cancel" Positions are reversed in InDesign 20.0
"Don't Save" and "Cancel" Positions are reversed in Indesign 20.0.
Why in the world would they do this??? Yet another meaningless update to hinder production.
Not OS related, as I have not updated my OS since updating to Indesign 20.
Mac Sonoma 14.7
3.6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9
AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB
47 votesThis option was updated in InDesign 20.0 version to match industry standards and stay consistent. We standardized this behavior to make workflows more predictable across products.
We know that changes can take some adjustment, and we appreciate the feedback we received. Over time, users have adapted to this new behavior, which helps us maintain consistency and avoid confusion in future workflows.
We appreciate everyone’s input and your help in making InDesign better!
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Adobe InDesign Team
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In v 21.3, shift and control shift don't work with arrow keys to nudge in larger or smaller increments
In InDesign v 21.3, my arrow keys work to nudge elements in 1 px increments, but I'm not able to nudge in larger or smaller increments. When I hold the shift key and press the arrow to nudge 10px, nothing happens. When I hold the shift and control keys and press the arrows to nudge .01 px, nothing happens. This feature works fine in InDesign v 20 and Illustrator v 30.3. I'm surrently running v 20 to avoid this issue.
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Overprint Preview does not work until cursor is moved
When switching between Normal Mode and Overprint Preview, Overprint Preview does not immediately switch/preview until I move my cursor. My Display Performance is set to Typical Display.
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Tables and text randomly disappear in Adobe InDesign document
While working in Adobe InDesign, tables and text frames intermittently disappear from the document, even though their frames and guides are still visible. As shown in the attached image, content that should be displayed (tables and text) is no longer visible on the page layout.
This issue occurs during normal editing and navigation of the document and does not appear to be related to hidden layers or visibility settings. The problem affects document review and editing, making it difficult to verify content accuracy.
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palettes stay closed
Our entire department recently did the newest update to Adobe InDesign (21.0)
Steps to reproduce the issues: Close document and open another oneEvery single time I open a new file (which is many times per day) the pallets do not pop open. The workspace still looks like it should and when I click on a pallet to use it, it highlights like it would if it was popped open for use but nothing happens.
Expected result: Pallets pop open so I can make changes on my file
Actual result: Pallets highlight like they will open but actually stay closed…2 votesHi Margery,
Could you record a screen recording and share it?
Are you on Windows? Windows 10 or 11?
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Adobe InDesign team
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Split Screen and Multi Window Screen Redraw Issues (diagonal slash)
I have the same error occurring on two machines (different Adobe accounts) - both fresh (a month old) installations of InDesign 2026 (V21.3)
Whenever viewing in Multi-Window (two documents side by side) or Split Screen (same document with two viewports side by side). Making minor edits often causes the top portion of one window or the other to go blank diagonally across the screen(see images). It gets filled in either white or the pasteboard color.
Scrolling up/down will correctly redraw content that comes into view, but whatever was already in the frame buffer stays and the blank area just scrolls…
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make guides
I want to make angled guides but I can't find a solution? The only thing I could find online isn't available for some reason even though I have the most updated version of Indesign. The solution people posted was to right click and there should be an option to 'make guides' out of a shape but that option does not exist. super frustrating and this always seems to happen where there is this made up easy fix that I apparently don't have access to.
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Show Import Options no longer stays checked
The "show import options" box will not stay checked in the "Place" window. Sometimes it does stay checked for one or two items but if you are importing more than that it will not stay checked.
Previously it stayed checked until the next time that inDesign was restarted. This may seem minor but is an extreme inconvenience and severely hindering workflow.
Version: 20.5
Steps to reproduce:
1. While working in document, Control+D (or "File>Place")
2. Sees "Show Import Options" is unchecked, check box
3. Place object
4. Control+D to place new object
5. Sees "Show Import Options" is unchecked AGAIN,…3 votes -
Flex Layout is unusable
Flex Layout feature is unusable. Not once did it work like intended. Just as an example. I just tried it again with 40 images that were dropped arranged in a grid with the intent of just standardizing the gutters quickly. But it just scrambled the order randomly. It is mind bugling. This should be feature number one. Figma Auto Layout is way better.
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Adding info to name in save as causes the name to disappear. Typing new name causes beginning of typed name to disappear.
This is a new bug. Clean it up.
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critical error displaying page content
By default, InDesign sets the display mode using the GPU. After updating the program, a critical error began to occur: when turning pages, part of the page content simply disappears. For example, if you have 30 objects on a spread, at some point 15 of them disappear (purely conditionally, let's call them even), while the odd ones are visible. If you press the display mode switch (the w button), now the even ones appear, and the odd ones disappear. Then, to display ALL objects, you have to switch the display to enhanced view. But on the next spread, everything can…
1 vote
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