InDesign steals focus in Windows 10 - again (2022)
If you switch to another application, while InDesign is launching, InDesign will steal the focus back, even repeatedly if you are quick enough to switch to the other application more than once, and/or have a slow computer (e.g. battery saver mode while opening a large document may exaggerate the problem).
I'm fairly certain that this irritating behaviour was gone from late 2017, since the earlier bug report (https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/31913773-indesign-steals-focus-in-windows-10) was closed after lack of activity (3 years old) in 2021, and the old thread on the forum https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-prevent-adobe-software-stealing-focus-in-windows-10-locked/td-p/7773884/page/5 was active until late 2017. At Nov 17th 2017 users edvardkrupke and Peter Bullit wrote that the problem was gone with the latest InDesign update at that time.
Please remove this very unwanted behaviour (again)!
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2024 (ver 19.5 x64). InDesign still gets in front of everything while starting up. Switching back to whatever other application I am using, InDesign repeatedly takes over and shows itself, until it is completely loaded.
Please let me decide when I want to start looking at InDesign. I can't interact with it while it is loading, so it is nonsense to let it steal focus from other applications.This annoying behaviour is of course more prominent when on battery and battery saving mode, and/or your computer is not lightning fast.