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Forum|Forum|7 years ago
October 16, 2018
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Just upgraded to CC 2019 and After Effects has been affected by the home button like almost every other program. I was able to remove it from Photoshop, but is there a way to remove it from After Effects? It's right where I'm used to clicking for the select tool and I hit it instead every time. It just needs to go away.

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Agata29133716ldbg

Participant

Simply untick "Enable Home Screen" box (in Preferences > Startup & Repair) and restart the app.

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dagoot

Participant

I agree. Long time AE user (+10yrs) and I use both 'V' and the mouse depending on where my hands is... Please move the home button to the right or allow a setting to disable it. This is bad UI/UX since the home button is rarely used; always consider how much a tool will be used based on it's priority placement in a toolbar. Also, there needs to be more UI consistency between PhotoShop / AI / AE / etc.... but I know that will never happen.

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mrwitte_work01

Participant

OK, so, just to make things abundantly clear: Is there definitely no way to edit your toolbar to get rid of the Home button?

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

Yes, there is no way to edit the toolbar, at least that I know of or that is in the documentation, which I have read and always do read carefully before each upgrade or update is installed.

dsol21

Known Participant

Really? Was the addition of the home icon in place of the most-used function in after effects listed as one of the new features in any of the documentation ?

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Looneytoon1975

Participant

Is this really their idea of creating updates to streamline productivity for their creative community? I think this is a very confusing and totally utterly unnecessary addition. One should think adobes UX-designer is a close friend of Apple's iTunes and podcast UX-designer ;-)

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whistlerpro21

Participating Frequently

I'd like to add my voice to those asking for this to be removed. Or at least add the ability to customise the toolbar. I keep clicking this instead of the select tool and it's driving me nuts.

Roland Kahlenberg

Legend

Lots of users, including myself, have had this issue. BUTT, I've since grown to like it - not the icon nor its placement but for what it does - bringing up recent projects. I use this feature a lot and after deliberately clicking on the Home Icon, I now find that I have stopped clicking on it inadvertently.

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lucac65382863

Participant

Yeah, v shortcut is not helpful when you are using the text tool and the home button is there for no reason!

Szalam

Community Expert

lucac65382863 wrote
Yeah, v shortcut is not helpful when you are using the text tool...

Right, you don't use v when you are using the text tool. When you are using the text tool, you just hold down control (or command, on Mac) to activate the move tool. It's very handy if you just want to move stuff real quick.

Now, if you're wanting to commit your text changes and switch to the selection/move tool, the only thing to do is to click the button. However, I've always found it faster just to hit enter on the keypad and press v OR to click off of the text layer (like anywhere in the timeline panel) and hit v - instead of going all the way up to the top left to click on the tool button.

That said, I understand the frustration of that home button being there for those of you who are used to clicking the selection tool instead. Being able to remove it or to move it would be welcome for y'all and I get that. I'm just trying to help with some suggestions on alternate ways to handle the situation until we see if Adobe will implement the removal option.

Roland Kahlenberg

Legend

CTRL+Enter confirms the text entry/edit and exits Text Edit mode - removes the "I" text insertion from the text area. Then hitting "v" becomes a viable choice.

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JoshuaQuintana

Participant

I literally tweet them and I don't even use twitter at all.

JoshuaQuintana

Participant

Same HERE!!! So annoying. This have been a really huge deal for me trying to get stuff done.

Mike_Abbott

Legend

Vote here:

AE CC 2019 Remove or Move Home Button in Toolbar – Adobe video & audio apps

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zenith_penguin1010

Inspiring

Thank you for mentioning this! I have been frustrated all day clicking in the wrong place for the selector tool.

What a terrible freaking idea to place that there when it serves very little purpose.

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Jason@plwcAuthor

Participating Frequently

Exactly. In Photoshop, you can turn it off. In Illustrator, it's in an innocuous place. It's only in After Effects that I have a real issue with it. I usually do keyboard shortcuts when I can, but in AE, it's a key combination (Command + key) instead of just the key itself, like in Photoshop, unless they've changed it on me.

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