"Disable new Acrobat" is not a feature of Acrobat 2024 Classic Release for Mac

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
April 25, 2025
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I just got off an extended chat and screen share with Adobe support. "Disable new Acrobat" is not listed in the View menu of Acrobat 2024 Classic Release for Mac. The support rep tried in vain to fix it. He obviously did not know the feature is missing. After driving my computer he basically said "that's the way it is". Anyone else seeing this issue? Can Adobe address it? I can dream, can't I?

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Ken5FEF

Participant

I am so so fed up with Acrobat - have been for the past few years. Today takes the cake, working with a client today my computer kept glitching out and freezing up and generally not working. I ran Onyx three separate times and ran Avira worried I picked up a virus or something. All the while my client waited patiently to get to the task at hand. Turns out, even though I have auto updates “OFF” Acrobat was the culprit, updating in the background and I had no clue until I opened acrobat again and it was back to that new shit!!! Totally screwed my whole day and workflow!!! I am so Freakin wound up pissed off now.

Anyway, reading all of the blogs I wonder if we could get a large enough community together to rein Adobe and especially Acrobat in to stop the craziness. I don’t think I’m alone when I say Acrobat has and does disrupt workflow constantly and then it doesn’t even work well any more.

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

May be this is not available in the classic track.

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Eric_lux

Participant

Would it not be normal for users to have – somewhere – a list of included features in the software they buy? Some kind of information on features removed, when, etc.? Even Adobe support does not seem to know if feature was removed.

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CSA Staff 1Author

Participant

Yes, it would be normal for a software company to have such a feature list. Adobe is no longer primarily a software company; they are a subscription/licensing company. It is more important for them to make sure you subscribe that it is for you to get software that "just works". They obviously have no clue that releasing a "classic" version of software with an exclusively new NON classic interface is simply wrong.

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Eric_lux

Participant

I just installed Acrobat Classic (Acrobat 2024 – Classic Release 2024.001.30246) on Windows 11. The “Disable new Acrobat” option is also missing in main menu (hamburger menu).

I have tried a few things… but they have not worked so far. I can’t spend hours trying to make the software work as it should. I would like to find a solution (otherwise, it is back to Acrobat Pro 11 or finally giving up on Adobe.)

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cyndit

Participant

I just came to the same unfortunate realization today. Were you ever able to disable the new Acrobat?

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