diff --git a/ide/CHANGELOG.md b/ide/CHANGELOG.md
index 2d47d791c92b..43b850bbc31a 100644
--- a/ide/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/ide/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 # Next Release
 
+<br/>![New Features](/docs/assets/tags/new_features.svg)
+
+#### Visual Environment
+
+- [Visualization previews are disabled.][1817] Previously, hovering over a
+  node's output port for more than four seconds would temporarily reveal the
+  node's visualization. This behavior is disabled now.
+
+[1817]: https://github.com/enso-org/ide/pull/1817
+
 # Enso 2.0.0-alpha.13 (2021-08-27)
 
 <br/>![New Features](/docs/assets/tags/new_features.svg)
@@ -16,7 +26,7 @@
 
 <br/>![New Features](/docs/assets/tags/new_features.svg)
 
-#### Enso Compiler
+#### Visual Environment
 
 - [Improvements to visualization handling][1804]. These improvements are fixing
   possible performance issues around attaching and detaching visualizations.
diff --git a/ide/src/rust/ide/view/graph-editor/src/component/node.rs b/ide/src/rust/ide/view/graph-editor/src/component/node.rs
index 93ae7d4f5198..c159e4c361ca 100644
--- a/ide/src/rust/ide/view/graph-editor/src/component/node.rs
+++ b/ide/src/rust/ide/view/graph-editor/src/component/node.rs
@@ -63,10 +63,11 @@ pub const COMMENT_MARGIN    : f32 = 10.0;
 const INFINITE                 : f32       = 99999.0;
 const ERROR_VISUALIZATION_SIZE : (f32,f32) = visualization::container::DEFAULT_SIZE;
 
-const VISUALIZATION_OFFSET_Y : f32 = -120.0;
+const VISUALIZATION_OFFSET_Y : f32  = -120.0;
 
-const VIS_PREVIEW_ONSET_MS   : f32 = 4000.0;
-const ERROR_PREVIEW_ONSET_MS : f32 = 0000.0;
+const ENABLE_VIS_PREVIEW     : bool = false;
+const VIS_PREVIEW_ONSET_MS   : f32  = 4000.0;
+const ERROR_PREVIEW_ONSET_MS : f32  = 0000.0;
 /// A type of unresolved methods. We filter them out, because we don't want to treat them as types
 /// for ports and edges coloring (due to bad UX otherwise).
 const UNRESOLVED_SYMBOL_TYPE : &str = "Builtins.Main.Unresolved_Symbol";
@@ -745,7 +746,9 @@ impl Node {
             preview_visible         <- preview_visible && has_expression;
             preview_visible         <- preview_visible.on_change();
 
-            visualization_visible            <- visualization_enabled || preview_visible;
+            visualization_visible <- all_with(&visualization_enabled,&preview_visible,
+                |&visualization_enabled,&preview_visible|
+                    visualization_enabled || (preview_visible && ENABLE_VIS_PREVIEW));
             visualization_visible            <- visualization_visible && no_error_set;
             visualization_visible_on_change  <- visualization_visible.on_change();
             frp.source.visualization_visible <+ visualization_visible_on_change;