Acrobat just updated. How do I reset the user interface to the traditional layout

[bobw111]

The new user interface on Acrobat is a jumbled mess to anyone that has been using Acrobat for several years.

Is it possible to revert back to the traditional user interface?  I'm in the middle of several projects and I'd rather not waste time trying to learn a new user interface right now.

[Dav32512934cfgq]

Between the "Comments" pnae on the right an d"Tolls" pane on the left - there is no space left for the document. Most UI's have one vertical pane and one horizontal. This approach may restore productivity of the app. Looking for alternatives in the meanwhile...

[barbaras84236562]

I don't find it effortless.   I do not like the commands on the sides.   Help put it back!

[Timothy33289126ydu1]

Clicking "remember current state of tools pane" doesn't work, nor does "diasble new Acrobat reader."

[amandaw11092290]

I finally uninstalled the current version of Acrobat this morning because it was so infuriating to provide markups to my team yesterday. NOTHING works the way I expect it to, and I have been living in the Adobe-verse for almost a decade. It's seamless to move between InDesign and Acrobat, but now it's a mess. Nothing is where I expect it to be. I can't provide simple markups using the key commands I expect to work, objects seem to get stuck behind the document I'm marking up...it's maddening. Desperately looking for the old GUI or I may be forced to learn how to use Bluebeam. I don't know which users you tested with for 12 months, but it certainly doesn't seem like any of them were InDesign users.

[Amal.]

Hi @amandaw11092290 

Hope you are doing well.

The new experience is an exciting step forward for Acrobat's future. But if it doesn’t suit your needs, you can still revert to the previous experience.  

Windows: Select the hamburger menu, and then choose Disable new Acrobat.  

macOS: Go to View > Disable new Acrobat.

For more information please go through the help page https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/learn-new-acrobat.html

~Amal

[Flavie38107915kqn8]

I don't agree with the functions being integrated: for big assignments, where the pdf includes internal links etc, I cannot use the "go back to previous page"-button anymore, and it cannot be added to the workspace on the right.

And I really really don't get why I cannot read the name of the document on top of the page anymore, or why my work space on top cannot be added on top, but instead forcingly is on the sides (making landscape formats (which is more digitally interesting) smaller and harder to read. 

[Frances6054]

Wouldn't it be nice if developers asked the actual users if they think things need to be changed? Book publishers don't change how a book is laid out, it has been the same way for hundreds of years with few complaints! Don't go changing things just because you can, or to justify a job position, PLEASE!

[photoby]

1000% yes on this. It is a jumbled mess and tools I use all the time - document splitting - is broken.

[default5txrht15wu9i]

I am the only techincal writer for the division of a company that ships machines costing 100s of thousands of dollars. The machines can't ship without manuals and I don't have time to train on/learn a new completely different version of software when I am struggling to meet tight deadlines during the last quarter of the year. If the machines don't ship, we don't make our numbers and I and my collegues may lose our jobs. Leave the configruation alone!

[Leah5E07]

I agree, and I have been looking at the comments from adobe, and its all the same comment, which shoes they are not listening.  I just found on my menu options an option to diable the new adobe layout.  

[Donna218429140cj3]

Let's talk accessibility... does Adobe know anything about that?  They talk a big game on the website, but when you completely overhaul the user interface of a software program that people have been using for years, many of those users who are neurodiverse, and you have an accessibility nightmare.  I can't tell you the number of times I have given up and just closed it.  The new layout is horrible.  All of these icons with no explanation of what they do.  I've selected buttons only to discover they do something completely different from what was expected.  I can't find anything anymore.  Work is taking me twice as long.  Seriously, if there was another software for PDFs I would be looking into changing right now.
The old interface needs to stay as an option for accessibility reasons.

[Enrico343489584rkv]

Please ALWAYS keep the ability to revert to the old interface.

ALL of my customers thanked me when I showed them how to revert...

[andreask85831847]

Until today, I had totally ignored the fact that Acrobat shows different behaviour concerning updates than any other Adobe CC software. Meaning it is auto updating by default.

Everyone who is – like me – still in shock about the new interface: Please make sure to deactivate the auto update in the settings within Acrobat itself. This is particularly critical as you cannot – again in contrast to all other applications – install older versions of Acrobat through the management options of the CC App.

Also note, that all answers from Adobe people here strongly suggest that the UI changes will be eventually forced on all of us for good, i.e. that they will remove the option to revert the UI back rather sooner than later. You know, they will "guide us" to what they think we want.

This is beyond repulsive, even for Adobe standards.

[lucd63676264]

Thanks. I just canceled the auto update.

[Pamela36038136f6py]

I signed into this thread to offer a specific complaint about the new interface. I often want to view documents with 2 pages and no scrolling. In the new interface this is EIGHT clicks!  Menu/view/page display/2page [interface resets itself] Start again: menu/view/page display/no scrolling !!  Why it cannot at least keep page display active for selecting more then one option at a time is unclear. Well, it is clear, somebody goofed when they coded the interface.