New UNWANTED Shape Creation and Placement Suggestions when I just simply want to connect one shape to another

Question

Um, I’ve used this software quite a bit the past 4 years. I haven’t touched it much in the past several months. What happened? What is this new silly auto suggestion where when I want to simply connect one shape to another by selecting the little dots that pop up on the sides of a shape, NOW it’s automatically suggesting a shape in a new random wrong direction.

So now rather than being super speedy with connecting shapes after the fact, I am now having to manually press CTRL every single time.

What is this featured called and how do I turn it off?
I’ve turned off snapping options. And if you turn off line connections….well then you can’t snap at all the way you USED to.

Whyyyyy change things that worked and not make it easy to revert back? Might as well go back to PowerPoint or Slides.

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Kelsey Gaag · Accepted Answer

Hi @Paul W102and @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 thecommunity(with the filterTopic 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.Finally, for more information on how Lucid manages feedback via this community, take a look at this post:

Paul W102 · Answer

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.

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