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October 18, 2020

P: Photoshop Being Open Causes Infuriating Cursor Flicker - macOS

  • October 18, 2020
  • 13 replies
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I am posting on the forums because I am so incredibly sick of this issue. It has been reported on the forums for just about 6 years now and I can't believe this problem hasn't been addressed and fixed. Whenever I have Photoshop opened up, if I move to another app and try to work in it, such as Illustrator, InDesign or even Safari, my cursor will flicker between the program specific cursor and the system default cursor sporadically. It makes it nearly impossible to work quickly or accureately in any program other than Photoshop. As soon as I close Photoshop the issue resolves immediately. I have tried so many "solutions" that have been suggested in the past and none of them have helped me. This problem is so infuriating and I can't believe I pay so much for software that doesn't even work as it should and have 6 year old bugs. This problem has persisted through many iterations of MacOS, as well as many versions ofthe CC Suite. I am currently running the latest version of macOS along with the latest version of all of my CC apps. Can someone please let me know if there is a definitive solution to this problem. Please do not suggest that I delete and reinstall Photoshop, because that's all Adobe reps ever tell me to do which has proven to be absolutely useless. Also don't suggest "just minimizing/closing Photoshop" because that is not a workable solution for me. I need these apps for school/work and it's infurating that they don't work well. Thank you in advance to anyone who's able to help. 

13 replies

Inspiring
January 6, 2024

In my case I'm running 12.7.1 Monterey at the moment nad most up to date Photshop for Mac.

 

Chad Rolfs
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
January 5, 2024

Which OS are you running?  

Stackola
Inspiring
August 31, 2023

Maybe we need to get people together and make a campaign to draw attention to the problem

Earth Oliver
Legend
August 31, 2023

no, the issue still is not resolved. With Ps open and visible in the background, there are always cursor issues when working in other apps. It's been like this for ages and like the Windows GSync issue, i doubt it will ever be fixed.

Stackola
Inspiring
August 31, 2023

Did adobe support manage to solve the problem?

Inspiring
November 22, 2021

Hiding Photshopt works now or closing all images. Bit what's this workflow? A programm (the only one!) which causes a flickering cursor in any other program? And your answer is: It's not that common ...

Inspiring
November 22, 2021

O.k. it did not work ... But hiding Photoshop or closing images in Photoshop will at least stop the flickering, now. I'm sorry but I hate A...

Legend
November 18, 2021

I've used Photoshop on Macs since version 2.5.1 back in 1994 and never seen this issue. FWIW.

Participant
November 18, 2021

Congrats uesix- unfortunately I dont seem to have AAM running. The flickering seems to be triggered only when I drag and drop an image into photoshop until you do that it's fine.

Inspiring
November 18, 2021

The flickering is gone and do you know why?!

I uninstalled AAM (Adobe Application Manager) as I just coincidentally checked for 32-Bit applications which will not be running when updating the OS once. I has never been uninstalled by your software updaters, when updating from CS6 to CSS and was still runnning in the background interferring with your own software!

In my case it was only caused by the rests of a buggy, outdated software which you never(!) deleted on updating your programs. Unbelievable ...