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February 16, 2026
Question

Switch off main/home panel being forced to always see on top

  • February 16, 2026
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Hi!

I m an Apple Laptop user and am already forced to loose the camera notch bar space when being in full screen mode of my actual screen as MacOS blacks out the whole Notch line, even though the notch is at a place where no crucial informations are placed = easy to tolerate. But no. Not possible. (?) 

And being added to that - in Premiere, there is this huge Home bar on top which additionally kills so much space which I dont use while editing. Means with those two conditions I m loosing around 15% of my Laptop screen hight already for nothing. I cant find any solution to switch it off or make it narrowed. And this question is already up for years. So, is there finally a solution??? 🙏 🙏🏼 🙏🏻 🙏🏿

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    Ann Bens
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    Ann BensCommunity Expert
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    February 17, 2026

    You cannot turn off the so-called HOME bar. You can turn of the bar above (file/edit etc) the home bar as Paul already mentioned.

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    PaulMurphyCommunity Expert
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    February 17, 2026

    You can hide the Home Bar with a keyboard shortcut: Command + \ on Mac, Ctrl + \ on Windows.

    invisibleavatar
    invisibleavatarAuthor
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    February 17, 2026

    Hi! Thanks for your replies. 
    First - is there an official reason from Adobe why they insist for years to kill important workspace?

    Second  Apparently I need a bit help. Set-Up: Laptop with notch, German QWERTZ and i d like to get rid of the black bar which appears (“sucking up” the notch) when going into full screen-mode:
    how can I cause your shortcut? On my keyboard I trigger “\” by pressing Shift+Option+7. When adding “Command” key. nothing happens. 
    On a PC keyboard “\” is on “?, ß” key. But same, nothing happens.

    Any idea?

    Averdahl
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    AverdahlCommunity Expert
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    February 17, 2026

    ​@invisibleavatar I have the same issue as well on with a Swedish keyboard, the \ is not a native key on that keyboard either so the shortcut won´t work. In After Effects one can map that shortcut, Maximize App Window, in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog. I have filed feature requests for this so it hopefully can be able to do the same in Premiere but it will doubt it will happen since it has been like this since this feature were released.

    One workaround is to add English as a language in the Language & region section in Windows. Then use the On-Screen Keyboard and click on Ctrl and then \ when you use Premiere.

    It´s clunky workaround since one must change the language (Win+Spacebar), click on Ctrl+\ and then switch back the language. Every time you open Premiere...

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