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P: Photoshop unusable after updating Intel macOS 26 Tahoe

Forum|Forum|4 months ago
September 18, 2025
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Hello everyone,

Is anyone experiencing Ps not running properly after updating their Macbook Pro to Tahoe 26.0?

Every action takes 10 seconds to load, it's super laggy and literally unusable. I purged, I restarted, I reinstalled, I did it all - nothing.

Any ideas? Is this a bug Adobe/Apple have to sned an update for?

16in 2019 i9, UHD 630, 32GB RAM, 500GB

Thanks, have a good day

macOS

Correct answer Kevin Stohlmeyer

ALL - Adobe MAX starts next Tuesday (10/28) and with that historically comes new product updates including Photoshop. Expect that version to be compatible with Tahoe.

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katiehphoto

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Photoshop 27.0.0 release is performing very poorly on Mac OS Tahoe (26.1 and all versions) that it is almost unusable. It is causing so many issues with working on imagery, both for quality of life, performance and speed.

This is really poor from you, Adobe. please work on a fix for this urgently - it's not just me that is having this problem if you google it!

Apple released their betas so you had time to make sure the new versions funtioned properly. We're paying a lot of money for this and we're not getting the service we're paying for.

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ExUSA

Legend

Many of us are working just fine with lower configurations. There is one known issue with crummy Electron apps, you might check that. It does NOT seem like a Photoshop bug, but more likely a problem on your computer.

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eschempf

Known Participant

Yes, I'm having the same problem. Incredible delays with my Studio Pro M2 max

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ExUSA

Legend

Do you have the problem with Electron apps slowing the system?

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Correct answer

Community Expert

ALL - Adobe MAX starts next Tuesday (10/28) and with that historically comes new product updates including Photoshop. Expect that version to be compatible with Tahoe.

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Erin_Lacienski7132

Participant

Thank heavens!

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Kris_K

Participant

did you find solution? I have the same problem: PS is unusable with Tahoe

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ExUSA

Legend

Check the link I posted. I'm not having problems on either Intel or Apple Silicon with Tahoe and Photoshop.

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ExUSA

Legend

There is a known issue with Electron apps, apparently the framework developers did something stupid and used a private Apple API which then changed and caused slowdowns.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/09/30/electron-apps-causing-system-wide-lag-on-tahoe/

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tommarcello

Participant

Adobe Photoshop cannot run on this computer because the minimum system requirement is Mac OS X version

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

What version of Photoshop do you have?

jane-e

Community Expert

Adobe Photoshop cannot run on this computer because the minimum system requirement is Mac OS X version
By @tommarcello

The last OS X version was Catalina 10.15, released in 2019. The current version is macOS Tahoe 2026.

Do you have an older computer and mean OS X, which started with 10.0 and ended with 10.15? If so, please tell us which OS X you are using.

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Jordiboy

Participant

Yes, having the same problems. Especially Photoshop and Illustrator.

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

@curt.gallery @Jordiboy many users are reporting doing a full uninstall and reinstall of the applications (not betas) has resolved any issues opening PS (or Illustrator).

curt.gallery

Known Participant

So an Adobe empoyee is sending us to Reddit for help.

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ExUSA

Legend

I'm generally willing to accept help from whatever source can supply it. Adobe has been clear that their apps are not yet officially compatible although many of us are working daily in Tahoe without major problems.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

DavidHenry,

The solution for you is to simply use the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop application to update Photoshop to the latest 2025 version.

Applications/Adobe Creative Cloud/Adobe Creative Cloud

And if need to use the 3D functions in Photoshop also install Photoshop 22.2

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/3d-faq.html

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DavidHenry

Participating Frequently

Photoshop isn't slow for me, it just won't open under Tahoe 26.1, giving me this message: "Adobe Photoshop cannot run on this computer because the minimum system requirement is Mac OS X version 10.13.0'

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DavidHenry

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PS "2020", when I get info I see Version: 21.2.2

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

@DavidHenry - your issue is different than the OP with current Photoshop. When you chose to remain on Photoshop 2020 you should have also stayed on the supported Mac OS for that version. Upgrading to Tahoe in all likelyhood has broken the compatibility with the older version of Photoshop. I would caution you against uninstalling at this point because there are no longer installers available for PS 2020. Support wont help you with this issue either as it only assists with CC2024 and 2025. 22.2 is still available for download/install if you want to test that.

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