It works now after the update Hence that the debug-bar did not came back automatically - also not by manually restoring the "default view". I made a backup of ./config/QtProject delete let qtcreator make a new one changed Settings\EnvironmentId=@ByteArray in QtCreator ini and in profiles.xml <value type="QString" key="PE.Profile.Id"> .. <variable>Profile.Default</variable> <value type="QString"> .. That at least let you continue to work and spend not too mich time with restoring profile setting 20 to 30 times ... depending of how many projects you have