Turn off "Selection follows playhead" PERMANENTLY!

Actually, you CAN turn it off forever.

Try to find the right how-to video on YT (if I post the link here this message will be deleted immediately).

Kind regards, good luck

At the moment, even having the Lumetri Color panel be a part of a custom workspace, even if it's not used in a session, is enough to turn back on Selection Follows Playhead at launch, which means you have to turn it off every time you launch Premiere. Also many might want it to not come on automatically for Lumerti, not so much that it's not useful there, but more than you have to remember to turn it off again to edit. So it should be a preference to change this behaviour.

Oops...posted before I finished my thought...

I have never posted here and yet here I find myself...Ive been using Premiere for 8 years now and this is by far the most annoying BUG ever. I cant tell you how many times Ive had to revert a project because I didnt notice the focus kept switching to a clip when I thought I was editing an adjustment layer. Adobe can say it works as intended but if it works to the dettriment of a large subset of users..it is not working as we intended, learned or use in our workflow. Three times this morning Ive had to go back and turn it off which prompted me to find a fix immediately. Low and behold I find this thread. Set this flawed "feature" to remember our last setting and be done with it. Im getting sick of having to redo work because my preferred NLE thinks it knows what I want in this instance. I would prefer an acceptable fix over having to learn another NLE. Then again...maybe I'll just have AI do all my edits from now on.

Yeah I hate this one. Always turns itself back on as I'm editing and I always have to turn it off. 

I have the same bug to report! "Selection Follows Playhead" KEEPS turning itself ON despite me repeatedly turning the *** thing OFF in the Sequence menu! Please, Adobe, fix this stupid bug! (And I'm not relaunching PPro - merely switching to a different app and back to PPro).

Problem solved! it was the 'Selection Follows Playhead' in Sequence drop down. Not the 'Focus' in Timeline Preferences.

thanks - Pete

I have disabled focus follows playhead but still the clips keep on getting selected when I scroll on the timeline.

never happened before latest update 23.1.0

Selection Follows Playhead is set to on when you open a project if you have the Lumetri Color panel open, even if you had it set to OFF when you last had the project open. 

Please change this to default OFF in either state (Lumetri Color panel open or not). 

I've fought with the same issue for what seems like 2 years.  I do NOT want this feature on, and I set up a single keystroke to turn it off (the ";" key on my keyboard), but every time I turn around, it turns itself back on.  So ANNOYING!!!

Moderator Note: References to engineering debug tools are removed. 

I knew that trick too but if you ever post that in any of the Premiere forums it gets removed due to it being unofficial. It's weird because I learned that from a Premiere certified expert. But there should be a preference to permanently turn that off.