InDesign is the workhorse for many creatives. It won't be long before a client (who is the middle man) sends me a 2025 InDesign for Windows file that I'll need to request be saved down, if we even know who created it.

I lost half a day recently to troubleshooting this (uninstalling, reinstalling, etcetera). With all the bugs in 2025 and 2024, too, that especially affect those of us working in accessibility, we all deserve heavy discounts on our Adobe subscriptions.

Hi Sanyam,
when will this be fixed please? This has a major impact .

People in design studios cannot revert back, because we have live documents in the new version.

Also still experiencing this issue. Updated to 20.0.1, worked fine for about 10 minutes then the beach ball came back with a vengeance. Common Adobe, fix this.

Experiencing this on a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro, so the issue is definitely not limited to apple silicon. I tried resetting preferences and saw minor improvement temporarily. but shortly back to super long load times that make it basically unusable.

Also, does every major update convert INDD files in ways that make them incompatible with the immediate previous version? I don't remember that happening before, but this seems like an especially bad time for to happen considering the widespread issues at least on macOS versions of INDD 2025

2025 version (20.1) has become extremely slow since today's udpate. even when trying to reinstall the previous version , Indesign remains extremely slow. Impossible to use. thanks for ur help.

Multiple members of my team have experienced this issue. One resolution that seems to have worked so far that points to an issue with CC2024 preferences being loaded into CC2025. This is a workflow we have used for years.

Our process:
--Installed 20.0 with our custom 19.3 preference file (~/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 20.0/en_US/InDesign Defaults)
--20.0 was very laggy
--Trashed preferences
--Rebuilt custom preferences in 20.0 (matched settings that were in 19.3 version, but just re-selected them in 20.0). This stopped the lagging on that computer.
--Loaded rebuilt preference file (InDesign Defaults) on another user's computer and this also stopped the lagging.

Has there been a changes with how preferences encoded that causes corruption issues if you bring older InDesign Defaults preference files to 20.0?

Fixing the problem by reverting to 19.5 is not a solution! I work in a company that also runs Windows computers; they all work with the 25 version. Exporting as idml only works to a limited extent. Sometimes the layouts are completely destroyed during conversion. Customers also send us production data from the 25 version. What should I tell them? Why doesn't anyone test whether the software runs on the Silicon chips? They're not that rarely used now, are they? My goodness: Why don't you bring the update when it works!

I can only confirm this: InDesign 2025 slows down my workflow immensely on both my iMac M1 and my MacBook Pro M3! It makes no difference whether I want to activate a text or image placeholder for editing or simply drag an object, the input or scaling are enormously delayed. I enter something and nothing appears, then I zoom in or click somewhere else, ét voilà it appears or is there twice because I thought InDesign hadn't registered the input. It's impossible to work properly like this! We pay so much money for the cloud and it feels like every update just makes the workflow worse. Moving around in the document is slow. The image previews are broken.

Slowness is observed after the Indesign 2025 update. All files which got converted to 2025 (v.20) version are slow. Slowness happens after opening these documents, beachballs are appearing for 10-15 secs by just clicking any where on the document, scrolling, using text tool, selecting text.. Display settings changed to Fast display but not good..

20.0 is unusable. I click into Indesign from another window and it takes 3-4 seconds to register, then 3-4 seconds to do anything else. Need a fix immediately.

InDesign 2025 crashes EVERY SINGLE TIME that I select "Check Spelling". This is causing an issue for my business.

I’m having huge issues with InDesign 2025 on Mac OS X Ventura (13.7.1).

Hanging with a spinning beach ball after every click or action. It’s completely unusable, and I’ve reverted to InDesign 2024.

There seems to be a belief the problem may lie with font management software? I’m using FontExplorer X. I can’t work without some form of font management.

On my machine, the spinning wheel appears immediately, there is no way to work in this version. Just switching to InDesign 2025 takes around 10 seconds. Screenshot of memory usage provided. The values do not change during spinning.

same problem. Critical with a deadline looming!

Hi Sanyam, I'd record the screen showing you the issue but I don't want to risk installing 2025 again.

When I installed 2025, it changed a recently downloaded folder with many 2024 InDesigns to 2025 InDesign, even though I hadn't opened them in 2025, nor had the person sending them to me. When I tried opening them with 2024 it gave me:

"InDesign could not open "File name.indd" because it has been created in a newer version - Adobe InDesign v20. You can convert and open this file but you may lose out on content created using the features specific to the latest versions.”

Not good, and mercifully it wasn’t wide spread to all my InDesign files. So I uninstalled 2025 and then redownloaded that specific folder and they opened as 2024 with no issues.

I can give you more information. It happens on my Mac as well. It's **** annoying. I am running Sequoia 15.1 and InDesign 20. This happens with new documents as well as old ones. I'd switch back to old InDesign, but I will not be able to open my new docs. I've reset the preferences and reinstalled them. Nothing has helped. Apple claimed this was an Adobe problem. I believe they are correct.

Any fix to this yet? I use indesign full time for my job and this is a Major Issue. I can not do anything in indesign without getting the spinning rainbow of death. Legit I can not even scroll or zoom in and out. The product is basically unusable at this point. Like this is straight garbage. PLEASE FIX THIS ISSUE

MBP 2021 | Apple M1 Pro Chip | Sequoia 15.1

Same thing for me as everyone else. Beach ball every time I backspace or try to make a correction or select type. It's horribly slow and unproductive.

MacMini M2
Sonoma 14.6.1

Using ID 2025 is simply horrible! It blows my mind how we pay a premium for this software and it can be so buggy

M2 Macbook Pro(64 gb ram) running Sequoia 15.
Feels like I'm running a 2006 iMac.