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Upgraded from Mac Sequia to Tahoe - Elements now won't work.

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September 16, 2025
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Hi

I upgraded to Tahoe, and now my 2020 version of Elements won't run.

I am trying to see if I can restore to the previous Mac OS, but they seem to make that extremely difficult, to near impossible.

I liked the old Elements. Knew my way around. Tried the Free Trial of it, but it seems to be very difficult.

IE. use to be two columns of buttons down the left. Now it seems just one, so have lost half or more of the options from what I can see.

What is the best solution: to learn the new Elements 2025 on Tahoe, or try hard to get rid of Tahoe and go back?

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VermontPhotog

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Major TYPO in my last reply!

Corrected:

Elements 25 and now 26, all run on Tahoe, 2026 confirmed running perfectly.

Older versions such as 2022 and 2023 are no longer are supported and why they won't run on Tahoe due to no updates provided.

It doesn't make any sense to downgrade OS just for one app!

At $99 for 3 year license ($33/year!!).....makes sense to go with the 2026 which is what I've done.

Hope this helps.

Glenn 8675309

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There are actually many more features and tools. PSE 2020 does not have a dark mode. Dark mode began with pse 2024. It's virtually impossible to purchase a legit copy of pse 2024.

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simon_m5Author

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2020 was dark mode standard before I think. Then they probably made it both, with Dark as an option.

Glenn 8675309

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Dark mode was not introduced till pse 2024.

Below is a screenshot of pse 2020-- no dark mode, not even an option in th e preference file.

Below is a screenshot of PSE 2010- it's only mode "darkish"

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

With Photoshop Elements 2025, most likely your in Quick mode.

Switch to Advanced to get all the available tools.

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simon_m5Author

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Thank you for that.

Much appreciated. Is there a dark mode, as my 2020 version has the side bar all dark, and it's just one of those things one gets use to. Just looking into the best and more cost effective way to upgrade. As NEW is more than Upgrade.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Yes to get Dark mode go to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025 Editor>General, change the UI Mode to Dark, then restart the Photoshop Elements Editor.

Glenn 8675309

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Learn the new Elements 2025. I would wait and see about pse 2026- new versions typically released late sept / early october.

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ross_5140

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Why dont people answer the question set? Why won't earlier versions of PSE work with Tahoe when they were happily working with Sequoia? On startup it suggests that Tahoe (26) is older than OSX which is clearly untrue. THis is an issue for apple and Adobe to correct between them, either Apple need to identify Tahoe as a version of X in their software or Adobe need to change their recognition method or more probably both! ATM just yet another methpod of both stealing from users.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

ross_5140,

Keep tabs on this thread and/or add your own comments:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-elements-discussions/ps-und-macos-26-tahoe-l%C3%A4uft-nicht/td-p/15510561

Also keep in mind that Apple is removing Rosetta 2, or a good chunk of it anyway, in the version after macOS 27, so eventually older Intel only versions of Photoshop Elements like the ones giving the error message in macOS Tahoe 26 will stop working even if Adobe were to temporarily fix them to work on macOS Tahoe because the macOS will no longer have the code to support Intel applications.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment

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