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July 21, 2011
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P: Support for native full-screen mode on macOS

  • July 21, 2011
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I must say that full screen apps is a wonderful idea. I can start in such a way some of the apple apps (safari, imail, numbers) - I like switching between them. It will be desirable to enable this option for Ligtroom & Photoshop (both CS and Elements) to behave in similar way under new Mission Control stuff...

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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PECourtejoie
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October 16, 2025
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May 19, 2024

Hijax, not sure what you mean. In Mission Control it is showing on the top of my screen right along with the other full screen apps. Have you gone to Preferences > Workspace > More Options > Enable Native Full Screen?

Participant
May 19, 2024

This is still NOT a real MacOS full screen option!

This issue is still not resolved!

 

Go "full screen with menu bar". Try opening opening mission control. Photoshop is still open in a Desktop panel. You can also see the top left green/orange/red semaphores do not behave like a proper MacOS full screen window.

We want a REAL MacOS full screen option!

 

Thank you!

Participant
February 18, 2024

Very glad this has been added! I have been waiting for this since I made the switch to Mac 9 years ago. There are 2 things I constantly rely on that are immediately noticeable and preventing total enjoyment of this view. 1. As someone else mentioned, yes the file tabs on top are missing and then 2. The tools, even when docked to the side, are rendering on top of the ruler. In non-full screen mode the ruler correctly renders to the right side of the Tools. Fix these two small bugs and I think many of us will finally have our dream Photoshop work environment on Mac!

minty32211
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February 1, 2024

You have a point about the limited nature of dev work. Fortunately, there are very clearly people who find this feature useful, and would have for over a decade! No need to chase the horse out of the barn.


Follow-up user reports can be placed in a new thread of course, but this thread feels useful to collect feedback as hopefully this feature is refined and improved. 

jane-e
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February 1, 2024

@Lumigraphics 

 

Ideas can only be locked by Employees.

 

Jane

Legend
February 1, 2024

Actually this thread can be locked since its been implemented.

jane-e
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February 1, 2024

@Lumigraphics 

 

David, your last posts have been way off topic and you should start a new thread. This topic is "Support for native full-screen mode on macOS".

 

Jane

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February 1, 2024

The issue I have is that Adobe's development resources are obviously stretched thin. Time spent on one new feature both risks breaking something else (as we have seen repeatedly) and involves an opportunity cost that means something else isn't done.

Every feature you get (useful or not) means someone else doesn't get what they need.