How to turn off annoying UI onboarding tutorials
Unwanted onboarding widgets block the workspace and persist across sessions without a clear toggle to remove them. This forces users to constantly work around intrusive tutorial pop-ups that interrupt their workflow.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Manually turning off the guided learning setting in individual user preferences
- 2Disabling the feature globally through company general preferences
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I have never once used it and it gets in my way sometimes LOL”source ↗
“Been suffering through it for a year 😅”source ↗
“That thing has ALWAYS been in my way and so annoying.”source ↗
“Thanks man, I was wondering the same thing.”source ↗
“That option is so dumb”source ↗
“I have it off of prod, but when I go into sandbox it makes me irrationally mad”source ↗
Where this came up
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