Photoshop Toolbar Not Working After Reactivating Adobe Plan – How to Fix It

Hey! 👋 This usually happens when Photoshop can’t detect an active document — the toolbar stays greyed out until a file is open and active. Try these steps:

Open a new document: Go to File → New (or open any image). If the toolbar lights up, it’s working fine.

Reset Photoshop preferences:
Go to Edit → Preferences → General → Reset Preferences on Quit, then restart Photoshop.

Check GPU settings:
Go to Preferences → Performance, and make sure “Use Graphics Processor” is checked. Then relaunch Photoshop.

Update Photoshop & GPU drivers: Outdated versions sometimes cause interface bugs. Update both from Creative Cloud and your GPU manufacturer.

If none of this helps, try temporarily creating a new workspace (Window → Workspace → New Workspace). This usually resets any hidden UI glitch.

Hopefully one of these gets your toolbar working again brother.