Photoshop 26.1 Crashing With Remove Tool

Just a headsup. I switched to the latest Photoshop Beta version (26.3.0), and so far have not had any crashes. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

Same thing here!!! :(( 

I'm having the same problem.  I boosted my Memory usage allowance and Cache levels and that seemed to resolve it on my end.  

It's unstable even in Windows.
So I always get my breath together before I use the remove tool and press Ctrl+S to save it for now, and I use the tool.
I do this every time I paint a stroke, because if I don't, all the work can fly away. (Be sure to save before using the Remove tool)
Some versions of Photoshop 2024+2025 are very unstable.

It did the same thing with me after I updated. It happened on both PS 2025 26.1 and beta 26.1.2. Nothing seemed to fix it, including restarting and changing the processing to more stable. I reverted to PS 2025's older version, which is 26.0 (I did it from Creative Cloud), and it fixed the issue. Let me know if you can try this and if it works for you.

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Yep, me too.  Udpated to 26.1 and immediatly it started crashing with remove tool, losing all work up to that point.   Reverted back to 26 and problem went away completely.  Using apple M1 Max. 

I'm having the same issue with the remove tool with larger files. 

I run Mac OSX Sequoia 15.1.1 and Photoshop 26.1.0.

Photoshop randomly (and relatively frequently) crashes when I use the remove tool. Not all the time, sometimes I manage to edit a few photos, other times it crashes earlier.

Has anyone else experienced the same problem?

This is the exact behavior I'm having too. I have a M1 Max MacOS 15.1.1.

Another user reported this problem with more detail. It looks very much like a bug in the code, because it's creating an illegal memory operation. Here's what Apple's dev support says about this particular error:
"A crash due to a memory access issue occurs when an app uses memory in an unexpected way. Memory access problems have numerous causes, such as dereferencing a pointer to an invalid memory address, writing to read-only memory, or jumping to an instruction at an invalid address. These crashes are most often identified by the EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) or EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) exceptions in the crash report."

I have alerted the Photoshop team. Unfortunately, until there's a fix, the best advice I can give is to not use the Remove tool.