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    AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    It seems like the problem is not about the bounding box...

    If you don’t see anchors selected, please check if you have View > Show Edges enabled. It's easy to toggle it with Cmd/Ctrl + H, and it’s a common mishap.

    If that’s the thing for you (or not) — please comment back.


    As for the bounding box specifically (the frame with 8 scale/rotations markers) — it never shows up when using the Direct Selection tool, and never was, and should not.

    If you need to scale or rotate a partial selection of anchors, use Free Transform or Rotate or Scale tools instead.

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    Nikola Matošević commented  · 

    @Megan What do you mean, is this a change they consciously made? It's not a bug?? That doesn't make sense. Direction selection tool is used to change/adjust/fine-tune an object. Not only is the bounding box missing, I can't see anchor points and handles as well. The Direct selection tool is useless at this point. Adobe needs to fix this ASAP! They really make me think every month about moving to Afinity.

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