I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet. Can't they just take a break from the generative ai features fire hose and just make the current product functional?

Maybe they don’t see it as a bug or it’s too low priority. What a shame 2025 didn’t fix this.

Another major version of Illustrator--2025--and another year of this maddening issue not being fixed. The color panel still pops up when you click the stroke/fill selectors. How long is Adobe going to keep ignoring our problems?

I'm making a new post about this because it seems like it hasn't been addressed by Adobe......
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 you close it, it will open and come to the forefront. Many of us don't need or use the color panel; we use the swatches or other panels. Why is this panel being forced on those of us who don't use/want it?

Who wants to guess whether this annoying bug has been fixed in Illustrator 2024?

It hasn't!

Every time I double click either fill colour or stroke colour on the main toolbar it pops up the color window. I have literally NEVER needed this, its a waste of space on my limited display and it would be great to permanently disable it somehow.

It's already been marked as "solved" with ticking "Auto-show toolbars" but this doesn't work. It's also been suggesting using X to switch between fill and stroke, THEN altering the colour. From a UI flow, this makes no sense to habitualise an extra step as a workaround.

The Color Panel keeps popping out whenever I select Stroke. This issue has been around for several years now. Nobody uses this panel. It's a problem and very annoying. Can't you fix it? Are you guys following this feed? https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/33877456-the-color-panel-pops-up-when-you-click-on-stroke-f

Alicia, to be fair — this thing with the Color panel popping is with us since long ago. I just tested if it behaves the same in Illustrator 10, from 2001 — same exact behavior. So this definitely does not get worse :) it just stays unattended, which is not cool.
But at the same time — why don’t you vote?! You leave a comment, but you don’t add a vote to this one. Why?

This sucks - Adobe products are just getting worse and worse!!! SOOOOO annoying this color menu - they simply don't care about customers - and for this we pay a monthly FEE?????

But do you click the Fill / Stroke selector with the mouse at all?
If not — now, when you are aware of it, please try to catch the exact moment it pops up and see what causes it.
And to make it less painful — please just undock it and make floating maybe... or does it always return to this specific place you demoed?

I don't use those hotkeys that you mentioned. The error in my workspace panel never happened before this just happened recently. Im not sure why the color panel shows up, you have to select it in the windows panel / f6 key. There is a small chance of selecting these keys by mistake.

Anna, the Color panel pops up each time you click the Fill / Stroke selector with the mouse, activating one of them, when another is active. This does happen although when Color hotkey ('<') is used, but not when the Swap command ('X') is.
Can you please confirm this? Is this the problem or is it something else?

workspace error- some panel suddenly shows up, that is not included in my created workspace. I have to reset the workspace to remove those panels.

Dear Adobe....PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE IT STTTOOOOOPPPP!!!

Illustrator 2023 is out! And this annoying issue is still broken.

It's been over 4 and half years since this issue has been posted, and not a peep from Adobe about it. How much longer do we have to wait for Adobe to fix this ongoing bug in the software that we use daily?

Just going to echo the extreme frustrations of other people about this issue, it clutters my workspace and annoys me every time it happens.

It looks like there's an option to prevent pop-up panels when you right click on them and uncheck the appropriate box, but it doesn't actually prevent the color panel from popping up. I can right click again to pull up the menu and see that the "auto-show hidden panels" option IS unchecked, but when I close the panel with the X button and click my fill/stroke again, the color panel pulls up regardless. Closing illustrator completely, re-opening it, and then looking at the color panel's options reveals that the "auto-show hidden panels" option has a checkmark again.

I am updated to the current version of adobe CC, my windows 10 PC is also up to date.

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.