P: Support for native full-screen mode on macOS

YES!!!!!!! Happy to hear that it's being tested in Photoshop, hopefully InDesign and Illustrator will follow as well. 

WOWOWOW! Sounds like a dream! Hope it makes its way into the general product soon! 

With Photoshop Beta 25.4 (20231203.m.2422) you will notice that we now use the default window buttons.

If you are a pre-release user, then you can get an early peek at support for macOS native full screen by selecting:

EnableMacNativeFullScreen from Preferences > Early Access.

Note: native full screen is a replacement for the existing mode, and it requires that the application container is turned on.

This ship has sailed, come back, sailed again, and is now mothballed in Texas. Full screen is apparently not changing.

12 years, 4 months and 18 days

You would think that more than 10 years after the initial response, it would be time to take another look at this, but I guess nah?

Oh, by the way, as an aside? Referencing replies from 2012 when macOS native full-screen was barely new and in an adaptation period for both developers and users? Irrelevant after 12-13 years afterwards. J453's 11 year old response boils down to "you can't use multiple displays" (not an issue if users could pick either option themselves), and "you can't open multiple document windows in one Space" (who uses multiple windows? Use tabs. They exist in one document window, and can even be split screened into several configurations already built into Photoshop). Today, 99.99% of macOS apps allow this feature. My independently developed MP3GainExpress app that has no business and real merit going full screen has the option.

People aren't asking to replace the current Photoshop full-screen functionality. Just add the native macOS full screen functionality on top. With Apple Silicon laptops holding as much power as the desktops nowadays, a huge chunk of users don't even work on mutiple screens. Leave the Photoshop full screen option in for those that do, but put some effort into having the option for the large amount of people who use Spaces to organize their workflows. The supposed users who have "accepted the trade-offs and don't want to lose the functionality" can just opt to continue using Photoshop's full screen option and ignoring a native macOS option. Why is it that the minority userbase have an opinion that they want the existing Photoshop full screen are immediately acknowledged, and the large majority over 12 years who just want a simple extra toggle that doesn't step on any existing features completely ignored? I also don't care about having to re-do the framework, just have the guts to acknowledge it's a decade+ old deficiency and let users know you're starting to work on it. I'm sure with that, we'd be happy to wait. It's the fact that after 12 years, they've completely abandoned this community. 

Imagine accepting that after Photoshop users want a native full-screen mode, Adobe's "correct" answer is that Lightroom now supports it, while Photoshop continues to get the shaft. That is the level of attention they are giving this.

Guys, they're literally NEVER going to add this. Adobe has held this "higher-than-thou" mentality on this matter, refusing to listen to its Mac users for over a decade. Staff don't even reply in here anymore, it's clear they have NO interest in even entertaining an option.

Do yourselves a favour and switch to someone that does care to provide this feature AND listens to its customers' feedback. Serif makes a similar suite of products and charges one upfront and very reasonable fee. Stop paying bloated monthly fees to Adobe until they show they care enough about us Mac users to bring this quintessential requirement to their most popular app after 12 years.

To this day, this still remains one of the highest upvoted threads on the Ideas forum here for Mac users, and they've all but abandoned it. Almost 12K views, nearly 350 comments and 12 years, just swept under the rug and blissfully ignored. It's not worth it. You don't need to pay $30+ a month for just Photoshop for this kind of gleeful neglect and treatment. As a fellow designer, I've kept up in this thread for the other Mac designers that deserve an app that respects as many workflows as possible, including arguably the most used one today. Nothing says clutter like having to share Photoshop with all of your other quick use applets, completely obscuring your desktop and taking priority over several things on your Finder.

If they cared, they would be crawled out of their hole and at least sparked some community debate on what limitations there may be, any kind of roadmap or expectations, anything else. The fact that they refuse to have any developer/staffer acknowledge it anymore shows just how little they care about this. 12 years later, and people are still begging for this feature, and it's a ghost town of abandoned Mac users waiting on nothing together.

Money talks. Refuse to pay for this, switch to Serif's Affinity suite and speak with your wallet. Enough of us stop paying for this disrespect, and it would force them to actually care.

Also note that the "correct" answer is over a decade old. Thank you. 

@zetak wrote: Go to > view > full screen with menu bar 

Your screenshot shows Adobe Photoshop's full screen mode, which is not the same as macOS native full screen mode.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-apps-in-full-screen-mchl9c21d2be/mac

Read the correct answer from @J453 . It's pinned at the top of the page.

Jane