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September 22, 2016

P: When launching Photoshop it recurringly takes focus from another application/task (Windows)

  • September 22, 2016
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When I open PhotoShop, it takes my computer a moment or two to open it (most of my PSDs are at least 2GB big), so I switch back to my browser to keep working, but every time there is an alert, or popup, or question, or it simply successfully opens the PSD, PhotoShop forces itself to the front, interrupting what I was doing in another window.
It can be very frustrating, especially since I am more often than not in the middle of doing something.
And I wish it was as simple as Alt+Tab-ing back to my window, but sometimes it just forces its way to the front again!
I don't suppose this is a feature that can be taken off/switched off?

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109 replies

Known Participant
September 25, 2017
use https://helpx.adobe.com/fr/contact/support.html in your country to alert agents and feedback developper team by an other way...
Participant
September 23, 2017
Exactly.
richarde51084430
Participant
September 23, 2017
How can your team even go home without fixing this? Just remove the lines of code that steal focus"and push to source control and then push the update to us. It's been way too long. Makes me not want to pay for photoshop anymore.
Inspiring
September 20, 2017
Seriously, Adobe. Fix this!
Participant
September 12, 2017
Adobe, fix your stuff!
Participant
September 12, 2017
10-15 seconds on my PC. On my older laptop this is about a minute or more.
Garconis
Known Participant
September 12, 2017
OK. Let's fix this. Like yesterday. Photoshop steals focus WAY too many times during launch (at least on Windows). No other programs do this.

I'm not one to just sit there for 10-15 seconds while this happens. But I'm forced to, because I'm not able to do anything else...
schmar
Inspiring
August 22, 2017
The official "We're investigating this issue. Thanks." reply is 7 month old and still no update or fix on that. Have you guys been acquired by Autodesk or what? Imagine, there are ppl out there who have to work with your tools every single day! 
Inspiring
August 21, 2017
Adobe: Is there any progress on this issue? It's very disruptive to my workflow and extremely annoying. 
Participant
August 18, 2017


When Photoshop starts (I'm using Windows 10), it takes the foreground, interrumping every other action or program that I'm using. It doesn't start in the background like, say, Illustrator. No, it interrumps several times, no matter how many times I choose another program, click somewhere else, even minimize it! - I've got to do it twice for it to finally stop annoying with its in-your-face behavior. Please correct this! :((((