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  1. Auto-update of linked images broken in Illustrator 2025 (works in 2024)

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    NEONE commented  · 

    Update (2026年7月):
    This issue is still NOT fixed. I've now confirmed it also occurs in Illustrator 2026, not just 2025. Environment: macOS Sequoia 15.7.5.
    I did more detailed testing and found the exact timing pattern:

    If I do nothing after switching back to Illustrator, the link-update dialog appears automatically after a fixed ~30 seconds.
    If I click on any object on the canvas after switching back, the link panel's yellow "update available" icon appears after ~3-5 seconds — but no dialog is shown.
    Toolbar interactions alone do NOT trigger anything.
    If I switch to another app/Finder/desktop and then back to Illustrator, the update dialog appears after ~3-5 seconds.

    This consistent, fixed timing (not random OS-level delay) strongly suggests this is an internal polling/event-handling regression in Illustrator itself, not a macOS issue. It's been over a year since I first reported this — could someone from the Illustrator team please confirm whether this is a known issue and if a fix is planned?

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    NEONE commented  · 

    PNG and JPG files show the same issue as PSD.
    The 29.8 build has not yet been released to me, so I cannot test it. I normally don’t use Illustrator Beta, but I installed it just now to check, and the result was the same.

    In all cases, when saving again in Photoshop and switching immediately back to Illustrator, the linked image does not update. After a few seconds, a yellow warning icon appears in the Links panel, and I have to manually update the link.

    After further testing, I found that if I wait about 5 seconds after saving in Photoshop before switching back to Illustrator, the link will auto-update correctly.

    So the behavior is:
    • Save in Photoshop → switch to Illustrator immediately → no update (yellow warning icon appears, manual update required)
    • Save in Photoshop → wait ~5 seconds → switch to Illustrator → auto-update works

    Restarting Illustrator and resetting preferences did not resolve the issue. This behavior never occurred in Illustrator 2024 or earlier.

    Hope this helps to reproduce the bug.

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