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.

I use it. So 'nobody' is an exaggeration :)
An option to not pop it when you click a fill or a stroke in the toolbox (you do click these? I thought NOBODY click them). Jokes aside, how and when does it pop for you?

Color Panel (F6) should be disabled as automatic pop up function of the application as it disrupts your personal workflow. In fact you could take the function away completely because nobody ever uses it.

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 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?

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! :(

It is **** annoying in deed. Adobe, pls fix it. The solution I implemented is, just parked the **** color panel in the bottom right corner and set it minimized, so it just do its buggy thing as least disturbing as possible and I soon got used to it being opening automatically as a thin bar on the bottom right, if you cant beat it, learn to live with it.