Every new document opens extremely zoomed out, how to fix

Thanks everyone. I will give these suggestions a try when I'm back in office in a few days. I'll let you know if or what works

I’m not saying that this is the answer or preferred method… but one can record an action to insert the zoom level of choice into an action. Then this action can be automatically played on each opened image via the Script Events Manager.

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2021/10/photoshop-script-events-manager.html

How are you opening the files?

Using File>Open from within Photoshop or….?

I would start by trashing the Preferences folder for both Photoshop 2025 and 2026 by going to

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2026

and

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2025

then deleting the Adobe Photoshop 2026 Settings and Adobe Photoshop 2025 Settings 

folders

If you have any custom Workspaces first move those from the WorkSpaces folder in each of the Settings folders.

​@jonathann44149 

I’ll admit to being baffled, but I did a web search and found a few threads that may or may not help.

• This very old thread from 8 years ago suggests that resetting preferences for Bridge fixed the issue back then: 
  https://community.adobe.com/questions-712/opening-tiny-photos-since-update-1062783
• This thread says it only happens with large images, and offers other ideas 
  https://community.adobe.com/questions-712/photoshop-opens-a-file-with-a-smaller-version-of-the-image-atop-the-normal-sized-image-1164188
• This is also 8 years old: 
  https://community.adobe.com/questions-712/placing-image-shows-up-as-tiny-square-not-the-actual-size-of-the-image-help-1063034
• Here’s another: 
  https://community.adobe.com/questions-712/photoshop-displays-images-smaller-than-they-actually-are-at-100-1160978

Hopefully Staff or another volunteer will see this and may have ideas. For the time being, use Ctrl+1 or Ctrl+0. Let us know if any of these other threads help you.

Jane

To add to my query. I basically just want photoshop to show an image at it’s actual size when I open it. Does anybody know the setting for this? I just thought it did this automatically like it has done for me for the last 20+ years. 

  ​@jonathann44149 

Are all images opening at 8.33%?

When did this start?

What is your version number of Photoshop?

Jane

That's just the zoom level — nothing is broken. New documents can open at 100% in a large window, which makes a smaller canvas look tiny, like in your screenshot.

Press Ctrl+0 (Windows) or Cmd+0 (Mac) — that's View > Fit on Screen — to fill the window with your canvas. Press Ctrl+1 / Cmd+1 for 100% (actual pixels).

More on zooming here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/viewing-images.html