ESC, Delete/ Backspace no longer working with the Polygonal Lasso

Having the same issue.

I still having this problem.
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While using the polygonal lasso tools, I try to remove the last point I added, but nothing works.
ESC, DELETE or BACKSPACE don´t do nothing. Basically I have to close the lasso to restart the job or to exit tool.

New Win10 machine, fresh install of PS. I am now experiencing this issue where I was not before with CC 2022. Esc will not cancel out of selection mode with polygonal lasso.

I've found another potential source of the problem, which is most likely the actual culprit for me: the language/keyboard setting in Windows. My system has two options: US and UK. When the keyboard is set to UK, many Photoshop shortcuts don't work, such as Foreground and Background color fill (ALT/CTRL + Backspace) and shortcuts for ESC, Del, and Backspace when using the Lasso Tool. So I switched it back to US and voila! Everything is working now.

Note: The shortcut to switch language/keyboard on Windows is "Win Key + Space."

It's two years since the original post, but I have this problem today with Photoshop. It is especially bad when I am zoomed in, and the document decides to scroll all over, making crazy points so that I can never find the starting point to close the loop. The problem is so inescapable that I end up using control-alt-delete to kill the Photoshop process.

Adobe Photoshop Version: 25.9.1 20240610.r.626 e3aae35  x64

Number of Launches: 7

Operating System: Windows 11 64-bit

Version: 11 or greater 10.0.22631.3737

System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:7, Stepping:1 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-VNNI, HybridCPU(8:16), HyperThreading

Physical processor count: 24

Logical processor count: 32

Processor speed: 2419 MHz

Built-in memory: 32457 MB

Free memory: 20805 MB

Memory available to Photoshop: 24941 MB

Memory used by Photoshop: 70 %

I have also been dealing with this issue for a while. Esc doesn't work, nor does backspace.

I just switched to another employer and got a brand new PC, new Windows 11, new Adobe CC and new Photoshop CC.

From the scratch the bug still occurs. And several other bugs I know since some time.

Honestly, this is not acceptable for me anymore. I cannot rely on Photoshop and Adobe anymore.

@Sivv.Ai: Thank you. I will try that. Most of the time I have activated the "add selection" function anyway and that's why I don't press the Shift key very often here. Sometimes I need the "subtract selection" function (Alt key). So I hope holding down the Alt key works too. We'll see...

Thanks again.

I also experiencing this problem. I found a temporary fix which is by holding shift key (keyboard) on the first click when using the polygonal lasso tool.

So, everytime you want to use the tool, decide a start point on the image, then hold the shift key, click the start point with the polygonal lasso tool, release the shift key. Using this method, the Esc/Backspace key always function normally.

Can confirm this bug is very present in the Photoshop Beta and most recent versions of Photoshop.

To add to this, Spacebar to switch to handtool is not working during lasso sometimes, this coincides with when Delete is not working.

If I just immediately close the selection, Deselect and then start again it's usually fine.

Super annoying bug that's been around for years, I'm amazed we pay as much as we do for this software.

Добры день! Необходимо выбрать на панеле инструментов лассо и зайти в настройки инструмента на панеле сверху (где настраиваются его свойства), там будет шестеренка с настройками, где необходимо выбрать "восстановить инструмент", все заработает)