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.

Here I am 2 years later and the word "magic wand" is still censored in my original post. Adobe, why did you censor it?
More importantly, why hasn't this been address? In its most simple form, its as simple as adjusting a simple default setting in the code. No new programming required.

1000% - start with zero tolerance. The Magic is that it selects all of one specific color , why select multiple shades at once....can always shift /add it to select more colors.
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It is super annoying that it is still something that I need to change each launch.

YES!
Please let user choose the default setting by keeping the last used setting when rebooting Ai.
Or by letting users change the default setting in the Preferences panel.
Settings:
1. Magic Wand
2. Align To
3. Pathfinder Precision
...

When I googled "how to change default magic wand settings," this is not where I expected to end up. It's hard to believe this isn't already an option.

Yes, please make some option to change the default values of magic wand tool!
I always use 0 Tolerance and setting this up every day is very frustrating!
Or at least make default Tolerances 0

Any update on why the word Magic Wand ( M a g i c W a n d ) is censored in my and other users similar posts?

I am not sure what the original word was, but seems like UserVoice is filtering these words. I am following up with UV to review the filtering rules. Can you please drop a note to me kotwal@adobe.com, what you originally wanted to write.

Hi Keith, I realized after I posted it that Adobe must be censoring it for some reason! Very weird.

Hey Adobe team, why did you censor the word "**********" in my feature request?

Adobe changed it to " ******** ". I originally wrote the "**********". I have no idea why it was changed.

BTW, not including the name of the tool (**********) in the title, makes it a lot harder for people to find and vote on this specific feature request.

Absolutely agree. have to change the tolerance every single time I use the ********** tool. It's incredibly frustrating.
If, for some reason the argument can me made to retain the 20% tolerance, then please give users to opportunity to set their own tolerance in their workspace set up.

And maybe set the default tolerance setting to 0 while you're at it!

I couldn't agree more. Why this is still an issue is beyond me.

Magic wand tolerance should be zero by default. For fill colors, I never use it on anything but 0. For strokes I use tolerance of 0 about 90% of the time. Pro users are generally using spots, global process colors or simply eyedrop+fill when working so there is rarely a need for selecting a "range of colors/shades" especially as wide as 32. In AI, this tool is used differently than Photoshop.
Or perhaps default tool tolerances could be part of a user preference?setting/workspace. (Along with setting default color swatches to HSB sliders)

please leave the setting to the last setting chosen ( like photohsop)
when i put 1 i as tolreance want to refind 1 , not 32 each time !

Magic Wand preferences - should remember last state they where set to after each restart - leave all boxes ticked and set to the numbers which I have a preference for - instead I need to check the 4 boxes on every time I start the app , and also put in the values for each field.... even Deke McClelland thinks this is a lacking feature - fix it.