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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:

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 the text box.
  • Resize a document window, the corner flies below the screen border
  • Click or Drag of the mouse
  • Switching between tools
  • "Waiting for UXP plugins to finish up remaining tasks."

Workaround:

  • Revert to InDesign 19.5, No performance lag is observed.
  • Restarting the machine and trashing the preferences seems to resolve the issue temporarily
  • Disabling any font manager software seems to resolve the issue. One customer confirmed that disabling "Rightfont" resolved the issue.
  • Uninstall-Reinstall seems to resolve the issue temporarily
  • Turn off Preflight seems to resolve the issue temporarily

Note:

  1. The issue seems to be specific to the MAC platform only. Impacted macOS (Sequoia, Sonoma, Ventura(maybe), Monterey)
  2. The issue seems to be specific to the MAC devices
    • Apple MacBook Pro M1/M2/M3
    • Apple MacBook Air M1/M2/M3
    • Apple Max Studio M1/M2/M3
    • Apple Mac mini M1/i7 Intel
  3. The issue exists for both old and new documents

Additional information needed:

  1. Screenshot of Memory usage while the issue is observed
  2. Is the "Contextual Task bar" shown? If yes, Disable it from "Window->Contextual Task bar"
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Need More Info  ·  AdminSanyam Talwar (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded  · 

Hi,

Thank you for reporting the issue. We are currently investigating the issue and updated the status in the Uservioce thread. However, the issue is still not reproducible in-house and we need additional information

  1. Screenshot of Memory usage while the issue is observed
  2. Is the "Contextual Task bar" shown? If yes, Disable it from "Window->Contextual Task bar"

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  • John commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have the exact same issues and have a possible reason. Upon quitting (during a spinning beachball) a message popped up and said "Waiting for UXP plugins to finish up remaining tasks.". It took about a minute for this to finally close and quit, but i would guess it has something to do with this. And here's the thing...I don't have any PlugIns activated that i know of.

  • Els van de Leur commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have the same experience after updating to Indesign 2025. It is not workable and very annoying. Apple M1 Max Mac studio, Sequoia 15.0.1.
    Pleas fix this!!!!!

  • Gintarė Baryzaitė commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have the same experience. Apple M1 Pro, 16 GB Mac OS Sequoia. Slowness on any kind of document (new, old, existing). Slowness/lagging happens even when moving cursor, hovering menu etc. ANY kind of actions immediately after opening file.

  • Long Lin commented  ·   ·  Report

    not useable, Adobe developer probably all are running Mac Ultras, feel like even then it's probably slow. DOWN GRADE IMMEDIATELY.

  • Pao Yabao commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same here. Running on Apple M2 Pro 16GB Sequia 15. Load on every click.

    Version 20.0 seems more like a downgrade than an upgrade. How can a text and image layout software load so much on such a fast CPU?

  • Yang commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same here! ID 2025, work on a Macbook 2,3 GHz Intel Core i5 quatre cœurs, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 1536 Mo, 16 Go 2133 MHz LPDDR3, with Mac OS Sequoia 15.0.1 (24A348)
    After uninstall-reinstall Indesign, it works "normally" during maybe 10min, then becomes very slow again.

  • Stephan Kahl commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same here. Slow, Sluggish, Lagging, Annoying and delaying my delivery deadlines...

    MacBook Pro M1 Max / 64GB RAM
    Sequoia 15.1
    Indesign 20.0

    @Adobe: When will this be solved?

  • Chelsea commented  ·   ·  Report

    Nope!!

    Installed 2025, removed 2024. Big mistake. Up against tight deadline I watched the beach ball swirl, as fast as my cortisol surged, for what seemed like minutes by simply opening any file, moving pages, or making text edits.

    Couldn't reinstall 2024, remove 2025 fast enough.

    Apple M1 Max Studio / Sequoia 15.0.1 (24A348).

  • David Chénière commented  ·   ·  Report

    same here : Very slow and highlighting several tools at a time.
    Also menu Not systematically displayed or usable.
    MacBook Pro Intel Core
    MacOS Sequoia 15.0.1

  • Micerium Marketing commented  ·   ·  Report

    The same happens to me with InDesign 2025, after every action (no matter how minimal it is), it spins up and is very slow. It is very annoying and slows down my work. fix the problem
    with SONOMA 14.6.1

  • Josh Hauser commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same issue. 2025 is unusable. Pause on every action. MacBook Pro M3 running Sequoia 15.0.1.

  • IslanderGraphics commented  ·   ·  Report

    Wasn't sure how best to show this on here. I have attached a video showing multiple issues when working in InDesign.

    1. The first is the font menu highlite not following my mouse movement.

    2. imported or added text turns black until a style is applied to it.

    3. Text will not change fonts until I click the mouse inside or outside of the text box.

    4. When I hover of a text box, the text blurs ever so slightly, but is bothersome to my eyes.

    5. When I try to resize a document window, the corner flies below the screen border, tho I am still able to resize the window, albeit wonkily.

    Any help would be appreciated. If this is a software issue, please get these things fixed.

    Thank you in advance.

    Mac OS 14.6.1
    Mac Book Pro M1
    8GB ram
    InDesign 20.0
    Monitor: Dell S3422DWG Ultra Wide

  • Anna Hirsch commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am also having the same issue.
    In InDesign 20.0: running on Sonoma 14.6.1
    switching between tools, highlighting text, everything is running extremely slow! Lots of lag and spinning wheels.

    Going back to 2024 version.

  • Courtney commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same issue. Makes the application unusable. Having to go back to the 2024 version.

  • Julia Glasberg commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have the same issue. I hope Indesign can solve this soon!! Indesign 2025, using a MacBook pro M1 16gb, OS Sequoia 15.0.1.

  • Michael Fasanello commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same here. v 20.0 on Mac Studio, m2 max, Sequoia v 15.0.1.

    Had to downgrade.

  • Shane Thomson commented  ·   ·  Report

    iMac pro 2017 Sonoma 14.7
    I am having the same issue. The spinning ball seems to pop up for a second or two about every 15 seconds or so. Just had a client over and it was embarrassing. Don't add fancy new features until core ones are fixed.

  • Pia commented  ·   ·  Report

    same.
    MacOS Sequoia 15.0.1
    ID 2025
    Slowing Down with every action (clicking zoom,.click on a text, ....) in a document directly after opening the document

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