Hand Tool lock after releasing spacebar

It's an annoying bug, without question. I have been a designer longer than some of you have been alive, that being said, the downgrade to 2024 is a great solution. I work on a Mac and find that if I leave a project open for prolonged periods of time, it triggers this bug. I save often and will restart photoshop when it shows up. I hate downgrading personally.

Like so many of my clients, I am at my wit's end when it comes the undocumented random keyboard shortcut  'feature.'  It's as pervasive as it is troubling and it has remained a continual source of frustration for too many for too long. I've tried to link it to specific hardware (Apple and Logitech keyboards and mice, Intel v. M-series Macs, USB, Bluetooth and network connected devices) as well as MacOS systems, third party utilities, extensions, plugins). The only common denominator has been Adobe Photoshop—and Adobe ain't talking! There is a singular resolution that does work: delete Photoshop and all associated application files, then reinstall Photoshop (I know). Use Photoshop until the 'feature' reppears, then repeat the deletion/installatiom process. Ater the fresh install, Photoshop typically remains in an uncorrupted state lasting anywhere between several months and a few days. One of my national clients created a shell command that expedites much of the delete/install process, as they delete and renstalli Photoshop every workday morning.  This is  a well known issue spanning multiple Photoshop releases and is an issue that Adobe apparently considers to be a minor inconvenience. My staff, clients and I have entertained no small number of fixes and promises of solutions and workarounds from Adobe and other resources that do not address the problem without incorporating draconian measures that inversely impact productivity and workflow. It's already enough hassle deleting and reinstalling the app, it makes no sense to limit Photoshop functionality when it does work.

Unfortunately, there are no fully developed applications that can do what previous versions of  Photoshop once did so briliantly.; if there were, my clients would switch instantly, just as they did when replacing InDesign with Quark's superior and largely troublefree XPress page layout sotware. Don't even talk to me about Premiere!  

I would rather they spend the time on fixing the many bugs in Photoshop than to adding new functionalities as it is a lot more important to users who rely on the backbone functionalities for their daily tasks than having fancy new features. Everyone has reverted to the old version of Photoshop now and paused the new version updates because we all want a stable version that works! I wish they would read our comments, but I doubt it.

Still happening in 2024.

25.6 version. Isn't smart still paying for these too buggy softwares.

Same here Macbook pro Apple M3 Max 14.3

Spacebar is not working at all as a shortcut 

Edit —  Preferences — Tools. Unckeck «Enable Flick panning». After that the problem had solved. But after that Wacom PS stopped working with wacom pressure. So i turned on windows Ink in wacom settings and that solved too.

As i mentioned before. We have the same problem on multiple Windows 10 PCs. And meanwhile not only with the handtool, the pen is unusable aswell with the newst photoshop version. We all rolled back to 22.2.0, no issues there.

Dec 21 2023, this is still not fixed. Multiple Windows 10 computers, 25.3.1

This is so frustrating and annoying, I don't understand how long this bug has persisted

Hi,

After upgrading my PC yesterday (i9, with nvidia 4070 ti) the problem has disappeared on Photoshop 25.0

Can a moderator merge this thread with the main bug report?

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-completely-broken-hand-tool-ps24-5-hand-tool-sticking-sticky-not-reverting-to-cursor/idi-p/13877561 

Make sure to add your votes to that other thread. Yes, it's a major problem that hits a lot of people. I fixed it by resetting preferences no less than three times, and it hasn't come back since. But that shouldn't be necessary