I can't believe this is still an issue! ha.

I've just moved the panel away from the swatch panel, somewhere at the bottom of the window out the way so now it's not so much of an issue, but still very annoying and this thread is 4 years old!

Just go to User Interface Preferences and check "Auto-Collapse Iconic Panels". By doing so, whenever any panel shows up (in this case the Color panel), it will automatically collapse after you click somewhere else on your screen or select another tool.

Adobe is AMAZING! However, there are a few nuances like this that need to be taken care of. The color panel popping open when clicking the fill or stroke swatches is SUPER ANNOYING! Please, please, please fix this issue Adobe!!!!

Yeah, I've given up completely on Adobe. Their UX is garbage. There are better products now.

Years and years and years later, Adobe still hasn't fixed this stupid, annoying bug. Do Adobe employees even use Illustrator? If they did, this problem would annoy them as much as it does us.

What's the point of having a uservoice forum when Adobe is just going to ignore it?

Adobe please fix this. The solution provided does not fix the problem.

Dear Adobe, please do something about this problem. It gets in the way every time. I never use that window but it's in my face always.

Deselecting auto show hidden panels doesn’t work for me. It keeps showing up

Very thankful user 🙏@Alex: ✅ Right-click the color panel and deselect "auto-show hidden panels."

I just accepted the fact of having to move it beyond the screen edges... there's no other way around it

Yeah, still not fixed!!! It's insane how disturbing this is...

Brady... I'm here in strong support! Here is what I was about to suggest... but I think you've expressed my frustration in a lot less words:

1. When working in a single monitor format with collapsable side bar panel menus… a simple update should be employed when it comes to how you drag a new color to your swatches pallette. 

Currently, if you want to add a color to an auto-collapsed swatches panel, the swatches palette has to be unhitched from the side bar, ( to keep from auto collapsing). 

It’s a minor inconvenience, but happens to me often enough that I think it deserves a quick look by programmers

My suggestion would be similar to how you can drag objects or multiple layers in photoshop to other open documents nested in the top bar.

With multiple layers selected in Photoshop, with ease, you just drag from your current active doc window to the intended opened file.

In Illustrator, when I try and drag a new swatch over it shows a plus symbol while crossing the screen, (indicating that it’s been selected and is in transport for a new drop location), but when you hover over the swatch panel icon in the sidebar, the swatches library ignores your knock at the door.

Anyone else experience the same minor frustration?

Pleaaaaaaaaaase fix this. Why don't you fix this....

Adobe Please fix this annoying problem!

Just want to add to the urgency to fix this nonsense by suggesting that beyond "annoying" (which it is!) this problem is COSTLY. Those seconds add up to hours, and suck productivity away from professional designers' days.

Perhaps with a little metrics, there's a case for a CLASS ACTION SUIT to recoup those losses.

fix this bug plz

We now have Illustrator 2021 and still this terribly annoying bug remains and hasn't even been looked at by Adobe. It's clear that no one at Adobe actually uses their own software, because if they did, they'd also be pulling their hair out due to this stupid bug that makes the unwanted color panel pop up all the time.

agreed this needs to be fixed!!

the Color panel pops up every time you click on the stroke or fill selectors. There is no way to disable this panel from popping up, even if

I was on the hunt for a solution to this annoying behaviour, when I stumbled of this thread.

Even deselecting 'Auto-show Hidden Panel' doesn't work. I deselect it, next time I start AI it's selected again. It also keeps popping up regardless of the option selected or deselected.

PLEASE fix this, it's driving me absolutely insane! :(