Sam issue here. MacOS High Sierra. Going crazy!!

I just did Ctrl(Cmd)+H to show outlines. It worked immediately, I must have pressed it before by accident.

Having the same issue, wish there was a better way than totally reinstalling illustrator :/

Hey I'm having the same trouble and have uninstalled and reinstalled Illustrator a number of times now and it works fine again for a while but then has the same issue again. A fix would be greatly appreciated!

I have tried resetting the bounding box of everything on my artboard and it doesn't work I cannot resize text or images!

I have had the same thing going on for about the past 2 weeks... I have to restart Illustrator a few times before they come back on... Or... If I leave the program running for about 5 minutes without doing anything they magically reappear. Windows 10 64.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Illustrator. Now it is working fine. Not sure why it stopped working.

When I try to resize my artwork with the Selection tool, it does not resize the artwork anymore. It just moves the artwork. Fortunately, I can still use the Free Transform Tool to resize objects and artwork. This is on Windows 10 in Illustrator CC 22.1.

I finally found a SOLUTION (at least on the Mac version).... but with one warning: If you want to retain all your preferences/workspaces, etc, then read this whole comment.

Otherwise, just go to the Creative Cloud application (ir's probably up top in your toolbar already) and find Illustrator under the APPS tab. Next to the OPEN button is a liitle "down" symbol. Click on that and hit UNINSTALL. Imprortant: Select "Yes, remove app preferences" to force a completely clean install in the next step. After Illustrator uninstalls, click on the INSTALL button, and when you're done, you're good to go; all handles are restored!

If you DO want to retain all your current preferences/workspaces, etc, it's important to FIRST go to Edit> My Settings> Export Settings and save that file somewhere on your local disk. Then do the same Creative Cloud app Uninstall sequence as above, INCLUDING removing your app preferences (Don't worry: they are safe as long as you've exported them already. If you select "No, keep app preferences" - whcih I did the first time I tried this - it will NOT restore your handles!). Then, when you hit INSTALL, you'll end up with a nice clean installation of Illustrator with the factory defults. Now, when you initially launch your new copy of Illustrtor, go to Edit> My Settings> Import Settings, and select the pref file you previously saved. Your handles AND all of your settings are back the way you left them.

This worked for ME, but of course, YMMV! Hope this helps some of you!

This same thing is happen to me as well! It basically makes the program useless or very difficult to use. Is there a fix or reset for this? Please help!

I'm having the same issue on CC 22.0.1 Mac... it's driving me crazy to have this now disabled. Is there some secret pref that's been reset?

I'm having some issues with handles not showing up, but it seems random and they reappear if I zoom in or out. Pretty annoying.