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Participant
June 7, 2023
Question

Keyboard shortcuts stop working

  • June 7, 2023
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Photoshop regularly loses some of it's important shortcuts:

° The spacebar to move.
° The Alt key, to alt-click the mask or to Alt-Size during a transform.
° The Control key
° The Shift key

Sometimes PS starts with them not working, a restart fixes that most of the time.
Sometimes PS start with them working and loses it a long the way.

5 replies

Participant
January 21, 2025

So, I had this problem too. 

I found out that if there is a web browser in the background with a text box active it can cause spacebar not to recognize in PS

I just quit my browser and the spacebar came back for me. Hope this helps!

 

mawiro
Participant
February 4, 2025

Thanks for your post!! I had just upgraded to PS 26.3.0 and the Command key and the Spacebar stopped working on my keyboard and on my ExpressKey Remote. I quit out of Chrome and they started working again. I then reopened Chrome and now everything seems to be working okay. I don't know how you figured this one out but so glad you did!

Participant
January 16, 2025

Having the same issues with the spacebar not converting into the hand tool to pan around in both PS (26.2.0) and PS Beta (26.4.0)  on a Mac.

Unchecking "Spring Loaded Tool Shortcuts" does not solve this.

With Photoshop closed, Shift+Command+Option (Mac) on your keyboard and then Launch Photoshop the way you normally would, to clear preferences, is not solving this either.


Any other advise? This is beyond frustrating.

Thank you.

Participant
October 4, 2023

Before I updated Photoshop Beta, I could hold down the space bar and the hand tool would appear so I could click and drag to move around the image when zoomed in. Now the keyboard shortcuts only allow a letter (a-z) to toggle tools. Is there a way to make it so that when I press the space bar I can move the image around?

Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2023

Spacebar still works fine for me on Mac OS. Try going to Settings/Tools and uncheck "Spring Loaded Tool Shortcuts"

CShubert
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 21, 2023

Hi @Erlend31793047qkwy are you talking about Ps release version or Ps beta, this is the beta forum and we want to make sure you are in the correct space.

 

What version of Ps are you on?

 

Participant
April 26, 2024

Yes, it was happening in Beta. I think the springload is the core issue. For now I've set  the thing to max milisecond and it seems to be working. Thank you

Participant
June 7, 2023

the hand tool is not activated by the tab key, and it is not possible to configure the pressure of the brushes

jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2023

 

@Estudio29550972lmyd 

 

The Tab key will hide/show your panels. The Spacebar is the shortcut for the Hand tool.

 

Jane