How to Round Corners in Illustrator 

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Open the "Selection & Anchor Display" tab within the Illustrator Preferences. There is an option called "Hide Corner Widget for angles greater than:". Could this be the source of your issue?

@@MichaelBullo thanks for the response - I thought it might be related to the angle size at first, but I already had that disabled. I noticed that when I made the angle less than 180° (this was a compound path, basically a 270° angle clipping out of a bigger shape, yielding a 90° inner corner) the widget would appear. but naturally I couldn't make the angle less obtuse, extend the radius, then set it back to 270°, since it would be curving it in the opposite direction. but the preference doesn't make a difference. I can actually show you since the file is tiny. I can just paste it here in my comment and you can try opening it. specifically the corners I'm trying to round are the lower left and right corners of the little human head & shoulders icon.

@@MichaelBullo the only way I was able to get the widgets to appear was by removing the anchor points above the 90° corners, converting them to smooth on the vertical side and stretching the handles way out to get the shape approximately back. then the handles appeared, when there were only 3 anchor points in the shoulders path. here's the result, although it's not what I wanted, it just needs 5 anchor points since it's not meant to look *this* round.

@@ToxicallyMasculinelol I might have discovered what's going on. Firstly, great idea putting the SVG code here in the comments. In case you didn't know, having copied the code to the clipboard it's possible to just paste it straight into Illustrator. When I pasted into Illustrator the graphic came in tiny. I had to zoom in to 2000% just to get it a good size on screen. When I selected the lower left corner of the persons shoulder I did not get the Corner Widget showing up. I selected the pasted graphic and dramatically scaled it up so that it fit nicely on screen while my document zoom was at 100%. I selected the lower left corner of the persons shoulder and, holy crap, the Corner Widget is now showing up. I haven't explored this fully yet. Just wanted to let you know ASAP. Please let me know how you get on.

@@MichaelBullo haha yeah it's tiny because of the width="16" height="16" attributes. I'm working on some new icons for firefox's proton update. it goes next to elements which are generally 24-28px tall with 2-4px of vertical padding, so the icons need to be super tiny. normally I wouldn't need to set the width/height directly but for some elements, the size can't be set directly, it just calculates it based on the svg. I never would have expected the absolute size would make any difference. that is so weird. but yeah, I'm seeing exactly the same behavior. scaled it up to like 800 x 600px, and now the widgets appear instantly. I guess now I know to not define width/height until the very end. if I start with a massive artboard, export it, and minify it in VS code, I can strip it of the size and viewbox and then just add width/height attributes by hand to effectively scale the coordinates down. thanks a ton for helping me with this, it's been bothering me for a long time (I make quite a lot of tiny UI icons so run into this all the damn time) so what a relief to finally learn of a solution. cheers man. great videos by the way

I think you are out of luck. This feature was introduced in Illustrator CC.

Have you checked the following menu item? View > Show Corner Widget

@@MichaelBullo thabk u very much. This solved it :)

@@edsn0124 Fantastic. Thank you and happy designing :)

Thank you. Are you possibly using an older version of Illustrator that doesn't contain this feature?

@@MichaelBullo Yes that’s true, I just updated it to illustrator 2020 and I can now see the features there… thank you once again

@@whizzmarketstore Hey that's great to hear and thank you. Enjoy all the new tools :)

Select multiple shapes and choose the Direct Selection Tool. Dragging a single corner should adjust all the active corners simultaneously.

@@MichaelBullo Thanks!

@@writethatdown100 Cheers. Did it work?

@@MichaelBullo Yup, super helpful!

@@writethatdown100 Excellent. Thank you.

That's true. I believe it was introduced to Illustrator CC in 2014.

@@MichaelBullo yeah. But all good, I found a way. Thanks for quick reply!

@@yanabanana5086 Excellent. Thank you.

@@yanabanana5086 hey,whats the way? I use CS6

Look in the Window menu. That's where all panels can be found.