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April 21, 2024
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How do I update my shortcut for navigating between tabs in Photoshop?

  • April 21, 2024
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(macOS)

In the Edit > Keyboard Shortucuts and Menus, where is the shortcut to go to the next tab located?

 

I feel like I've looked through almost everything and I cannot find this function. I want to edit this shortcut, because I use it a lot.

 

For anyone who can help me find this, bless your soul.

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Correct answer Conrad_C

On Photoshop for macOS, you can use two shortcuts to cycle through the list of open document windows/tabs.

 

One is the old Photoshop shortcut that goes back many years, which Trevor mentioned:

Control-Tab

This is listed on the official Photoshop keyboard shortcuts web page:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html

 

Photoshop also supports the standard macOS window cycling shortcut that works in almost any Mac app:

Command-`(accent grave, the top left key of the main key group on most US English keyboards)

This is listed and customizable in macOS System Settings, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Keyboard (Move Focus to Next Window shortcut). However, I just tried editing it and although that change is respected by most Mac apps, Photoshop for some reason sticks to Command-`and doesn’t respect the shortcut change in macOS.

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Participant
December 11, 2024

Thanks, I am also trying to figure that out, I know the short cut but I am trying to change it to a different key to speed up my process. please can someone help, thank you!

Stephen Marsh
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Community Expert
December 11, 2024

@David22788676qm4o 

 

What have you tried from the suggestions in this topic?

Conrad_C
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Conrad_CCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
April 21, 2024

On Photoshop for macOS, you can use two shortcuts to cycle through the list of open document windows/tabs.

 

One is the old Photoshop shortcut that goes back many years, which Trevor mentioned:

Control-Tab

This is listed on the official Photoshop keyboard shortcuts web page:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html

 

Photoshop also supports the standard macOS window cycling shortcut that works in almost any Mac app:

Command-`(accent grave, the top left key of the main key group on most US English keyboards)

This is listed and customizable in macOS System Settings, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Keyboard (Move Focus to Next Window shortcut). However, I just tried editing it and although that change is respected by most Mac apps, Photoshop for some reason sticks to Command-`and doesn’t respect the shortcut change in macOS.

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 21, 2024

If you are talking about different documents open as tabs, then Ctrl Tab does it in Windows (Cmd Tab)

If it is listed in the Edit Shortcuts panel, then I don't know where.  I wonder if it is an OS shortcut rather that Photoshop?