I agree, Clif. There are several auto-connect related things that changed recently. They made a great product very difficult to work with. I constantly have to manually undo something that I didn’t want.

I wish I could get a version from about a year ago. I loved that one. 

Hi @Paul W102 and @Clif, 

Thank you for your posts! There is currently not a way to disable this feature in Lucidchart. 

However,  we’re very interested in your feedback and committed to continually improving our products, we invite you to share your idea in our Product Feedback section. To do this please first search the community (with the filter Topic Type = Idea) to see if it’s already been submitted. If so, please add any additional details you’d like and upvote the request - this consolidation helps to refine feedback and properly capture the popularity of the request.

If no one has submitted this idea yet, please create one of your own and be sure to include details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. This will also allow other users with similar requests to discover and upvote it, then add details of their own.

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