How to turn off the artboard function in Photoshop

Hi I just saw this, and I think the answer you are may be looking for is

How to turn off artboards on new documents, rather than having to delete an already existing one.

1. For new documents, you can select "Photo" as the "Document Type" (note I use the "legacy" new document dialog)
   
    

    

2. Set your dimensions, resolution, color mode and depth, background contents, etc. The "Document Type" will change to "Custom", but the document type will still be a Photo.
   

    

3. I recommend to click "Save Preset…" and name the preset to keep it handy. 
   

    

4. Click OK and your new document will not have an artboard.
   

    

The Artboard option should be off by default. I wonder who was the IQ champion thinking that it's necessary for all projects. Getting rid of it on case by case basis is cumbersome and annoying. We should be able to turn this dumb feature off in the preferences.

Turn off the automatic artboards feature - looking in prefs there is no way that is obvious. Who's the wise guy thinking this was a needed automatic feature?

Adobe, this is a nuts feature - abolutely hate it.  😞

Seriously Adobe -- who actually asked for this, and why is the implemenation different than Illustrator? I pay for the entire CC suite, but your constant and unnecessary changes to my workflow -- forcing me to have to relearn how to do basic things --  is making me reconsider my subscription.

Original post removed... That was a strange forum or browser refresh issue!

i solved this by hiding the artboard layer then it let me move my other layers above it and deleted the artboard.

With a large number of Groups and Layers, I found the "Move above" approach mentioned above problematic at best. Much easier to create a new non-artboard document with the necessary specs, then select all artboard Groups/Layers excluding the Artboard parent layer, right click, duplicate layers, and choose the new document as your destination.  Worked ever time for me.

Just realized you can open up a new document with out the art board.

Normally it does not give you the Transparent option.  But if you click Advanced Options.... then click back on Background Contents..... the TRANSPARENT option reappears!

They should just give you the option for a Transparent Background without having to do that.  I prefer Transparent as well.