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Inspiring
November 4, 2019
Under Review

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

  • November 4, 2019
  • 145 replies
  • 2005291 views

We need to have the grids and the guides in Photoshop for iPad ! I can’t work without them. Thank you !

145 replies

Ethan Cole
Participant
March 15, 2026

Many designers rely on grids and guides to keep layouts clean and aligned, especially when working on tablets. Hopefully Adobe adds this feature soon because it really improves workflow. By the way, when I’m taking a break from design work I usually watch movies on Smart Play, it’s a free streaming app with lots of content

Jess Telmanik
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 26, 2026

I would LOVE to finally see this functionality in Ps for iPad! Pretty please, Photoshop team!!

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
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
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 

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
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.

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
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. 

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. 

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.

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