'Modern UI' Technology Preview hijacks Shift+F2/Ctrl+Shift+F2, breaking Action shortcuts

Question

Have had actions associated with Shift+F2 and Ctrl+Shift+F2 for many years (so it's deep in the muscle memory at this point!) but a recent update seems to have enabled a "Modern UI" Technology Preview and it means Photoshop seems to prioritise the default keyboard shortcut Shift+F2 for either of these, and increases the brightness of the UI instead.

Normally the priority seems to operate Actions > custom Keyboard Shortcuts > hard codes Shortcuts but this TP seems to break that priority.

As this is in the Preferences, there seems to be no way in the Keyboard Shortcuts to resolve the conflict. Adding the hard-coded shortcuts to the Keyboard Shortcut interface would probably be the preferable solution.

matt-tnm · Answer

@D Fosse - If you can find the shortcut for Interface Brightness in Keyboard Shortcuts interface I'd be super grateful but it's not there. It's a Preference with a built in Keyboard Shortcut, not a Panel Menu, Application Menu, Tool or Taskspace - which are the available categories of command in the Keyboard Shortcut Interface.

And to be clear, this behaviour's not apparent unless the Modern UI option is ticked in Technology Preview, so you may not be experiencing it out of the box (on Windows)... though it does seem to have been ticked by default.

The concern is that Adobe won't spot they've introduced this bug, and as the tool tip for the Modern UI Technology Preview says they're gradually modernising the UI over future updates, this bug may become something I can't work around as that happens.

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