How to turn off the artboard function in Photoshop

spent now 20 minutes to get rid of this bloody artboar very annoying ..... Bug still exists in 2017

I never thought I'd complain about frequent updates, but I'm getting so sick and tired of having to re-learn Photoshop every time they Adobe runs an update.  It's jacking my world. It should be a setting.   Lame I have to turn it off document by document.

You can also remove the Artboards option from the file when you create it - there is a tick box

I would just like to say Archy108, I understood precisely what you meant!

I didn't ask for (no stinkin') Artboard. And when I went to "turn it off" it wasn't under the menus: View, Window, or File. Sure I can see it on my layers panel, but even there it's not an option in the layers contextual menu.

Talk about Adobe making quite an assumption that we would want the darn thing! there should be three easy ways (intuitive) to turn it off or to access it's parameters (like everything else Adobe). Not this nonsense about dragging it below other layers and THEN being able to discard it. Sheesh!

Now before anyway argues with me about the beauty of an Artboard, the least Adobe could do is match it's functionality to the Illustrator Artboard. Yes, I use an Artboard there all the time (right where the Artboard belongs). But to call yourself a "Creative Suite" and then make the Artboard work and be editable in such a completely different manner, what are they thinking?!!! Don't people from the Photoshop development even ever talk to the Illustrator developers?

So yes, on top of all the other places one would expect to see the Artboard options—as in Illustrator—the Artboard should show up on the side toolbar. Also it should show up under File (which on a related note File > File Info has absolutely nothing useful in it and is most certainly legacy and I have never used it in all of my 15 years of using Photoshop!)

Why is there no File > Document Settings? Including, yes, Artboard settings!

To clarify - What I want is the image I'm working on edge defined and just that visible.  What I get is a white square on white background (useless) and with the zero point not in the top left corner.  Fit image to screen solves that issue but not the edges issue. This update forces adding guides as the first job just to define the image area.

This is not progress Adobe; updates to PS (which I've used since PS4) making regular tasks less easy.

This new feature was unwanted by me and is very irritating when you create a new document to build a composite image, adverts etc., to a set size.  Can it be set to default to off permanently?

Yep select all your layers in the layers panel and move them above the artboard then select the artboard and hit delete.

What do you mean by turning it off? You don't have to use art boards. If you have one in a document, you can delete it or it and it's contents.