P: Photoshop can't open, freezes on splash image, uses all of ram trying to open then crashes.

Hey guys, it's not just Photoshop. This latest update broke the whole damn suite.

This Cleaner Tool is for advanced players. I'm not about to go in and start eliminating stuff.
Can't you folks just fix this and give us an upgrade?

Same here.  Using Windows 11.  It just freezes in the app opening screen.  

@jimmybla Use the CC Cleaner tool.

@Greg Bracco see the answer above...

Same here all of a sudden PS 25.11 wont open, freezes on open screen. I tried holding shift to not open 3rd party apps. But no avail. The only 3rd party app I have  Nic Collection 6. Previous version of PS was no problems. Now having issues, even with PS Beta.

I have Mac running Sonoma 14.5 96gig RAM. AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 gig. 

I'm having the same issue on my computer. It uses 100% of RAM and then I can't even force quit the App using the Task Manager. This is very very bad for my business... Hey Adobe, please give us a solution with urgency.

Agree. I'm personally done with the Beta App experience. I was super annoyed by the fact the Photoshop Beta kept getting set as default app to open applicable files. I would set the Photoshop as default app to open files and with a couple days I would double click to open a file and Photoshop Beta would launch. Annoying and inconsiderate.
And now this. Beta? paaaaasss....

My Photoshop is freezing when it gets to reading font lists and I've tried deleting all the font folders. PLEASE HELP!

The latest Photoshop update "destroyed" my Photoshops

I can't open both Photoshops - the new Photoshop 25.11 and the Photoshop Beta 25.12.

It doesn't mean it reduced my productivity, it ruined my work!!

They just DON'T OPEN (don't work)

What can I do????

Can the next update solve this?

*and why did my Illustrator and Indesign stop working too? because of the updates?

Very, very, very sad situation!

Why are Beta releases crippling start-up of Stable versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign?

Even more concerning: Beta versions installed on one’s system are affecting start-up of completely separate applications. I had Beta After Effects & Media Encoder installed. Apparently, these were preventing Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign from opening. All versions of After Effects, Media Encoder, and Premier Pro themselves, however, were able to open without issue on my system. The current Adobe screw up only seemed to affect Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, which freeze at the splash screen and also cause RAM usage to climb through the roof resulting in screen redraw issues and an unstable computer.

This post is testament to the number of Creative Cloud subscribers suffering from this problem. It also reveals that the temporary fix is to remove ALL Beta applications one might be using. Sure enough, as soon as I uninstalled the Beta versions of After Effects and Media Encoder, my Stable versions of Photoshop and Illustrator opened normally (I have not tried InDesign yet because I have not re-installed that program yet).

I am wondering about a few things here, which hopefully those more informed and technical than myself can give feedback on. Perhaps the discussion can contribute to Adobe implementing some positive changes to prevent such troublesome updates from occurring, or at the very least keep users better informed when such issues happen.

First, there is what I feel is Adobe’s unsatisfactory response in not properly addressing this problem. Instead of posting or sending out some kind of notification to users about the issue, they let their subscribers find out the hard way that some applications will fail to open under a specific condition. This causes users to waste inordinate amounts of time trying to figure out what is wrong and, after performing the usual trouble shooting, wasting even more time with tech support!

Yesterday, after an hour on chat with lackluster support, I was told the issue was on their side and to wait 4 hours. It has been almost 24 hours without any kind of response or follow-up on status of this critical issue. Certainly, they must know by now that the immediate workaround is to remove all Beta Apps. And yet, no such official communication has been issued that can help those whose work has now come to a standstill.

The second, more important issue I see from this fiasco, is the wisdom of having an ecosystem so tightly integrated that program errors to one aspect of it affect such a broad range of applications. Exactly what is adobe doing in their code that ties these programs together so that program errors critically affect them all at once? Is it some kernel that controls the start-up of all applications? Is there some kind of overreaching data sweeping going on during start-up that they recently implemented? Why would a Beta version of After Effects prevent start-up of a stable version of Photoshop?