Photoshop 2025 upgraded to Photoshop2026, but CC doesn't see either. (Complicated... please read!)

This is a bit complicated. Sorry.

I have been using Photoshop 2025 on current Mac OS. A while ago, CC apparently installed Photoshop 2026 (it is in my applications folder) but launching Photoshop has continued to launch 2025. Further, CC (yes, I’ve logged out and back in and restarted the computer) shows that Photoshop is NOT installed at all. 

In Photoshop 2025 if I go to Help → Updates I see no option to update my installed copy of Photoshop 2025 or switch to the installed copy of Photoshop 2026… and under the “Apps” page in CC, while Lightroom and Lightroom Classic show as installed (I see the “Open” buttons), next to Photoshop I see “Install.”)

While I can manually launch the installed Photoshop 2026 application, it does not have access to any of my workspace or preferences from 2025.

Using the “click the 3 dots in the CC Photoshop square to check for other versions” doesn’t work either, since CC seems to be unaware that Photoshop is even installed on my computer.

Again, sorry for the mess of an explanation, but I’m at a loss here.