Illustrator 2025: Stop These Pop-Ups & Clean Up Your Workspace

Simona
February 15, 2025
Beginner Tutorials, Tutorials, Video Tutorials

Tired of Illustrator 2025 cluttering your workspace with unwanted toolbars and pop-ups? The new Contextual Task Bar, Rich Tool Tips, and Help Bar may be useful for beginners, but for experienced users, they slow down your workflow and add unnecessary distractions.

In this guide, I’ll show you how to disable these features step by step so you can focus on designing without interruptions. Whether you’re an illustrator, graphic designer, or creative professional, this tutorial will help you optimize your Illustrator 2025 workspace for speed and efficiency.

Learn how to:

• Turn off the Contextual Task Bar for a cleaner UI.

• Disable Rich Tool Tips to remove unnecessary hover pop-ups.

• Hide the new Help Bar and free up screen space.

Follow this quick guide and take back control of your Illustrator workspace!

Simona

Simona Pfreundner has been teaching Adobe Creative Suite since 2008 through written tutorials, instructional video courses and classroom teaching. With 15 years experience in the graphic design field as an agency, in-house and freelance designer, her love for art and drawing has enabled her develop an approachable and intuitive style of teaching that helps people learn graphic design software in a fun and easy way.