Long pause verifying Photoshop - macOS

Same here, using MAC and I am sitting every morning for 15 to 25 minutes waiting for this "verifying" [cursing removed] 

update - it did finally open!

I have the same issue only the verification process is not ever completing, stuck at about 95% through the process.

Mac OS 12.5.4. would appreciate any fix! Thanks.

I'd like to add to this thread becuase I've been using macs for years, and I'm having the same problem. I have Big Sur (unfortunately) and I'm paying monthly for Photoshop, Illustrator and In Design + Word and others. I prefer to say this system is more like Big Sour. Big Sour soaks up ram and doesnt' allow your printer to work anymore among a multitude of other nasty glitches. Photoshop 2022 is taking five minutes to verify today - wonderful. During these trials and tribulations, I think of the old days (not too old ahem) when things were easier. Easier and faster. In those days we paid a one time fee, but it was worth it becuase the suite would last forever. Not updating your suite is perfectly okay. I had an older suite —maybe 7 years old that I was uing to freelance with daily. I paid ONE TIME - not every month, and not every year. Having to "update" is a way Apple ropes you for money and I was living proof of that everytime I completed a project and was paid using my older suite. In the past, these programs were loaded in with a CD, with a regristration number into our macs. When we opened our programs - they opened immediately becuase we weren't waiting for anything to be verified from apple via adobe online. Everyone claims this doesn't slow things down - but due to my experience I disagree.  I woud consider buying the entire suite once as an option. Don't bother to update next year or the year after. Just pay once. The only other option I can think of - is if your mac has enough power — is to just simply leave these programs open. As far as I can tell, thats option number two. Option number three of course means digging through your mac for hours trying to fix it yourself - when time is short and projects are due. 

This is a one-time thing, then you shouldn't see it again. If Photoshop is correctly installed, that is.

Lol - no you are not. And no it is not. 

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Is anything changed with this?

It [removed] me off, that every time i open an Adobe app i always have to wait for it to verify. Sometimes it can be 25 seconds. Sometimes it can take a few minutes. 

But point is, even at 25 seconds, if i want to edit a quick image that SHOULD take me less than a minute, that verfication doubles my work time.

I know this is Apple, not Adobe at fault. But hoped someone would know a hack to either "forever trust" adobe. Or to forever bin the stupid STUPIIIIDDDD apple feature that does this?

Honestly, i truly hate Apples OTT security. Even an hour ago, i logged into my iMac, and within 10 seconds it needed my password to update some software and then 10 seconds after that, need my password again to update other software.  Sufely one password entry is enough to proove its me - grrrr

I agree @siegeavar  The point is, if the Security Setting is set to "Allow apps downloaded from: App Store and Identified Developers", you shouldn't have to wait for MacOS to "Verify" Adobe apps. Or, doesn't Apple trust Adobe? Or are Apple and Adobe at odds over the fact that Adobe doesn't have it's subscription apps on the Apple wagon? Too bad Apple and Adobe couldn't work this out between themselves and save all of us countless wasted hours waiting, searching for answers, replying to threads....