everytime i close photoshop, all my open brush groups collapse

Wrong state:

Correct State:

Hm, not was I was hoping for … 

Could you post a screenshot of the »wrong» state? 

@c.pfaffenbichler (Hopefully this screenshot works, if not I'll stick it on imgur)

What are your Workspace Preferences settings? 

@c.pfaffenbichler  The workspace was saved. Resetting the workspace restores it how I want it to be. But once I close and reopen photoshop, it has the same problem of collapsing everything on the right side except the swatches.

I've also tried deleting and recreating my workspace, but that also  did not fix it.

@Jakkal , did you save the Workspace in its intended state? 

What happens if you Reset the Workspace? 

As a further annoyance, Photoshop is now collapsing all of my right side workspace tabs except for the one at the top (Swatches). So I have it set up with Swatches at the top, then Layers/History, then Character. When I start up photoshop, Layers/History are are collapsed and Swatches take up the entire remaining right side workspace menu area.  I have to open these up now every time I start up photoshop.  I have not changed anything on Photoshop, nor have I updated. It just started doing it one day.

Also having this issue, I've tried reverting to older versions with no avail. Adobe please fix this, for those of us who rely on large brush sets like digital painters this is boyond inconvenient. This is basic functionality of Photoshop, your clients should'nt have to worry about these kinds of bugs and there have been a LOT in 2023! These are professional applications?

@cr234 , as a work-around until this gets resolved (if at all) you could move the (important) Brushes out of their Groups and use Groups as »separators«. 

this drives me crazy been looking for a solution as well.
I think I had this problem with an earlier version as well and I fixed it by turning off preset syncing, but as far as I can tell this feature doesn't exist anymore.
This bug is even worse than the color wheel not updating 😛