I'd like an option to save magic wand settings. Every time I close illustrator I have to open the magic wand panel and change the settings again. It requieres few clics only but it's still annoying. It as been asked for years but it still doesn't seem to be possible in illustrator 2026. Thanks !

Magic Wand values should default to '0' tolerance, not the arbitrary, formerly '32' and now '20'. I have to change this each and every time I launch Illustrator anew. Please across the board for Fill, Stroke, Weight and Opacity, make the defaults '0'. While you're at it, have the tool remember/save your inputted setting, as I've seen that as a common request too.

I’ve been using Adobe Illustrator for many years, but I’ve never understood the concept behind the default settings of this tool (nor the inability to save/set default values). The given tolerances are too high for most selection needs, and in almost every case, an exact match is desired (i.e., all tolerances set to 0, with fill & stroke color and stroke weight active). Constantly having to reset the tool is nerve-wracking!
Ignoring this request for so many years is, moreover, regrettable.

And the default of 32 makes no sense. It picks up such a huge range of hue, saturation and brightness that its practically useless for professional work. Zero 0 should have been the default, then user preference should stick.

Please take this seriously. This is one of the examples, where Adobe products are inconsistent. Having to type in my favourite settings each time is tiresome. version 1) save settings in preference file (and document it, please!), so it's available after restarting Illustrator --- version 2) save settings with document, so every user opening the file has this as setting [both OK with me]

Yes, please save a PREFERENCE like everything else. Tired of changing it everytime!

... so many bad UX/UI settings in Adobe Illustrator for years! And no improvement, still ...

All the time, Jakub. It’s just so many things to fix in Ai :(

is anyone listening at all?

They will never improve their UI and formerly implemented tools, like they never did with selections tools and other, too ...

come on adobe, this is so important, I keep Illustrator open all day long just not to do the settings once more!

K-O, there are some discussions held about giving more fields a sticky behavior, including Magic Wand. This does not mean specifically it’s going to happen soon, but at least this train is finally departing. The team is at least aware of this now!

25 votes is a sum of unique voices for all three requests merged — it means same users voted for all three.

Until the status of this request changes to 'Under Review' or anything similar, we all should wait (again) and hope (still). Thanks for the head up.

BTW, if you notice some other requests that can benefit from being merge, don’t hesitate to comment. Many similar entries get merged daily, but there are plenty of them left. I read all new comments as soon as they pop.

Adobe, you have combined "magic wand should be zero" and "keep default", does that mean you are finally working on this? Its been 4 years. Why only 25 votes on this after merging the 2 requests?

Seems like it should be a no brainer to have something like this

i can't believe we still have to beg for this.

Completely agree, I rarely set the tolerance to anything higher than 0. It really should be the default, or at least have a setting to keep your settings persistent.

Super annoying, the default should at least be at 0

Adobe will never ever update old bugs and insufficient tools!

I am back to follow up on this. I posted in 2019, asked again in 2021. The Magic Wand tolerance should be set to ZERO , 0 by default. Im sure 99.99% of users would prefer this.

Adobe team, can we get a reply please? This seems like a very easy fix that would provide huge QOL improvement for users. There used to be feedback on the forums, now just silence. Most of us would rather have these type of small easy fixes like default hyphenation-off and global HSB vs things like grammerly support which you did actually provide an status update on. What's going on with Customer service over there Adobe?

Also back here after almost 2 years, wondering why this is still an issue. Please Adobe, help us out here! The world is a messed up enough place, without the tolerance setting being 32.