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August 23, 2025
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Stuck on Hand Tool

  • August 23, 2025
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My cursor is stuck on the hand tool. I have Photoshop 26.9 and Mac 15.6, so I think I'm pretty much up to date. How do I recover use of my other tools?

Correct answer Reeko1776

Thanks. Nice cat Picture. My solution ws to reboot the computer and start over. Fixed the problem. None of the other suggestions I found helped, by the way. (My keyboard and mouse are hard-wired t6o my mini Mac 4.)

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Trevor.Dennis
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Community Expert
August 24, 2025

Restart Photoshop

Restart your Mac

Reset Preferences

Open Photoshop while holding down the Shift key (to force it to open without third party plug-ins and extensions).

Do you have pointing hardware other than a mouse?  Move it away, or turn it off.

Is this a MacBook, and if yes, are you using the standard keyboard?

If a desktop Mac, then what keyboard are you using, how does it connect, is it fully charged, do you have other hardware near by that uses a similar frequency if wireless?  i.e. printer, phone.

Have you recently poured a quantity of gooie liquid onto your keyboard?  Glutton-free smoothies are particularly bad.

Is your cat sitting on your keyboard?  We get this a lot.

Reeko1776AuthorCorrect answer
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August 31, 2025

Thanks. Nice cat Picture. My solution ws to reboot the computer and start over. Fixed the problem. None of the other suggestions I found helped, by the way. (My keyboard and mouse are hard-wired t6o my mini Mac 4.)