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November 4, 2019
Under Review

P: Support for grids, guides and ruler tool for Photoshop for iPad

  • November 4, 2019
  • 143 replies
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We need to have the grids and the guides in Photoshop for iPad ! I can’t work without them. Thank you !

    143 replies

    mjs013
    mjs013
    Participant
    February 10, 2026

    This is utterly ridiculous that a basic tool like ruler is not on the iOS app! Even more a reason to cancel my subscriptions with Adobe

    pjglad
    pjglad
    Inspiring
    February 6, 2026

    I’m confused. Why is this feature request Under Review? The Photoshop iPad app clearly states that this feature request is in Development.

     

     

      Larimus
      Larimus
      Participant
      January 31, 2026

      Yup 100% you want me to pay just for iPad photoshop and you don’t have the most basic function. 
      and yet they added AI to it. Like cool, don’t need it at all but how about the most basic necessities 

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        karma007
        Inspiring
        November 21, 2025

        Sadly, I have to agree with you 😫

        I work for a software company and our product manager is always talking about the bottom line. As a software developer, I am always talking about making our existing product better for customers. 

          Larimus
          Larimus
          Participant
          January 31, 2026

          Yeh and the bottom line is. If your software can’t meat the basic needs of the customer they ain’t going to pay for it. Good for them for adding Ai but give me the basics first. It takes no performance hit for this and probs only a few lines of extra code.

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          dem0n1
          Participant
          November 21, 2025

          Software subscriptions don't lead to a company working on things that their customers need to be implemented, what they do is give the company a stable bottom line so they can do more stock buybacks and executive compensation packages. It will take a lot of cancelled subscriptions to get corporate to take notice. Anything else leads to laughter from offices filled with your cash with executives Scrooge McDuck swimming in it.

            Larimus
            Larimus
            Participant
            January 31, 2026

            Yup but marketing and dumb managers usually are running the show while the intelligent creative people tell them what’s needed and is ignored in the politics and paper pushers. 

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            karma007
            Inspiring
            November 10, 2025

            The fact is, Adobe just doesn't care about the Community. 
            It would take just one member of the core team to inspect the community feed, a couple of times each month, to realise that we have been asking for this feature for many years. 
            Absolutely terrible optics for such a powerful corporation. 

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              Pixguy
              Participant
              November 10, 2025

              Photoshop for iPad is useless without rulers and guides. How this so complicated for Adobe to add such a basic feature for many years is beyond my comprehension.

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                karma007
                Inspiring
                October 10, 2025
                • Honestly iOS iPad is barely worth using. There are so many basic features missing like the pen tool, numeric scale, shapes, gradient circle, other linear gradient options like adding more stoppers, colours etc, rulers 
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                  matthewr45878070
                  Participant
                  September 28, 2025

                  I need the ruler tool, grids and guides, to be able to print my work to correct scale. Please add!

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                  Eric Fermon
                  Participant
                  September 20, 2025

                  Need rulers in Photoshop for iPad asap... this is a major fubar!

                  Glenn 8675309
                  Glenn 8675309
                  Legend
                  September 20, 2025

                  Users have been wanting this for at least 4 years.  Posting essentially the same concern, only 8 minutes apart, can cause a bit of confusion, I'm going with this post and ignoring the other one.
                   Currently there is no way to add a built-in grid or rulers to Photoshop for iPad. While these features are available on the desktop version of Photoshop, the iPad app lacks native support for them. You can only get an approximate idea of dimensions using the selection tool and layer properties, or by creating your own visual grid as a separate image layer. 

                  Workarounds for the Photoshop iPad App:
                   
                  • Use a dedicated grid image:Create a grid in desktop Photoshop and save it as a PNG image. Then, import this image into your iPad project as a new layer to use as a visual reference. 
                  • Use the Ruler Tool from another app:You could use a different app, like the iOS-based Affinity Designer, which supports on-screen rulers, to find the exact dimensions you need. 


                  Wish I could say "do this" and you get rulers, but currently it aint  a gonna happen.  

                  You are not the only one to express a concern about this. 

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