Acrobat 2023: How to revert to classic GUI user interface

life saver. the tabletification of PC programs has gotten out of hand. stop taking away my file menu bar!

This is driving me nuts, the new interface can't be disabled fast enough.

But the real kicker has been that there are bugs in the new version that have staff clicking multiple times to open a PDF if it opens the PDF at all.

To further stuff it up Creative Cloud doesn't uninstall. 

Wish List

Fellow Acrobat users!

I want to turn our complaints into something useful for Adobe's development team, so I wrote up some key fixes to the new interface that will help us get the tools we need while giving Adobe a better interface for Acrobat's future features.

Please take a minute to review my wish list.

And please add your ideas to it!

• Keep it positive and helpful. (They already know how much we hate it, they got the message.)
• Suggestions on what you want to see changed or restored.
• Just address the interface, not what features you want (that's for another post).

And be sure to describe what you use Acrobat for, how it's used for work or your personal computing. It's clear that the Adobe design team may have missed how various industries rely on Acrobat, so here's your chance to let them know what you need in the interface.

I believe it's our last chance to get the Acrobat we need before Adobe carves the new interface into stone.

The wish list is at:

https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/48153893-new-acrobat-wish-list-for-a-better-interface

Add your "wishes."

And don't forget to click the VOTE button in the upper left.

—Bevi Chagnon

One of the original Acrobat trainers since the original beta version 30+ years ago.

This is not my first time encountering a new Acrobat interface.

And no, I don't work for Adobe.

Change, in and of itself, is not necessarily desireable. 

This is a change, but NOT AN IMPROVEMENT!!!!

I hope that the option to use the previous interface.

If someone likes the new interface, fine. 

I find it a rats nest!

The 'Disable New Acrobat' option worked on my iMac but it does not and will not work on my Windows machine. The new GUI is a complete disaster on Windows. Adding optional functions to the ridiculous little toolbar on the right only lasts as long as its open and then you have to add them all over again the next time its used. Moving that little toolbar to the left reverts back to the right each time the application is opened. Customization has to be done each session. A total failure by Adobe.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this!! That new version was ruining my days! Waste of some developer's time, really.

I don't know how to get this message to Adobe. The new Acrobat Pro just installed on my computer. The new format is terrible. I find that it takes me four times longer to work on a pdf file. The young "whipper snappers" at Adobe should not mess with the layout. (The same thing happened to MS Office many years ago. Lont-time users of that software ensemble are still searching for features that were once easy to find.) Thankfully, Adobe Acrobat users have provided information on how to revert to the classic layout. I hope Adobe decides to do away with the new format.

Is there a way to move or hide the left and right side tool bars?  They are taking up valuable screen space especially on a monitor oriented vertically.

THANK YOU!!!!  It is extremely irritating when there is ZERO value add in a change.  

I can only find one, good thing about this new update and that is that you've reverted back to how you could batch process reducing file sizes as it was in 9. Why don't you just reintroduce the same UI as that but with updated graphics? There was nothing wrong with the way 9 worked.