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Adobe Acrobat - Permanently Disable Home Screen Feature

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January 11, 2023
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Please describe the exact preference in Adobe Acrobat Pro that permanently disables the Home Screen feature. Please don't send a pointless link to directions that don't solve my problem. Tell me exactly how to disable this pointless and annoying feature.

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Correct answer JR Boulay

Ratushebarl Greg Harbour

Joe26853055d0nb

Simply uncheck this option in the Preferences (macOS only, not available for the Windows version).

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JacquesCapeTown

Inspiring

Replying here - still not solved May 2025. None of JR Boulay's responses are effective. Adobe will need to code in this functionality.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

So you must uncheck these options:

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MikeMac966

Known Participant

Ok so that works, finally. Now if they can get rid of the blasted Welcome screen..

JR Boulay

Community Expert

"Ok so that works, finally. Now if they can get rid of the blasted Welcome screen.."

Uncheck this option:

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JR BoulayCorrect answer

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Ratushebarl Greg Harbour

Joe26853055d0nb

Simply uncheck this option in the Preferences (macOS only, not available for the Windows version).

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MikeMac966

Known Participant

Unchecked, home screen still displays. Wrong answer sorry.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

Try to revert to the Classic UI: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/acrobat-2023-how-to-revert-to-classic-gui-user-interface/td-p/14052807
Consider the "new Acrobat" as a beta version, many features are still missing or half-implemented.

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Greg Harbour

Inspiring

Being unable to disable homeview/screen is a great example why I'm replacing Acrobat with Preview for most use because of its scope creep from a useful utility to an app pursuing no clear purpose so just occluding its utility

JR Boulay

Community Expert

Preview, aka "the PDF killer".

This old article is still relevant: http://khkonsulting.com/2013/06/preview-app-killer-of-pdf-files/

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yurei1202

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Fullu agree. This is so dump. I'm using Adobe products for 30 years and I used to love the products they've made. Now I really hate Adobe. I love indesign. The people behind it know what thay are doing and don't force unnecessary changes.
It's how day say - what is the worst enemy of good?...Better. They are doing instant nonsense changes to Photoshop. Now they put their hands on Acrobat. What's the idea for changing interfaces, keyboard shortcuts, function usage? It's so stupid. If it wasn't for my clients who also struggle with adobe products, I would have changed it 8 years ago. But competitors are progressing and one day Adobe will end up like Quark, unless they stop messing with everything just for doing something. Better focus on making products work like it should – Illustrator the worst of all of them. Full of bugs, super slow almost unusable even on fastest macs, unprecise !!!. NIGHTMARE

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Darklaw-787

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Bumping to show my support. Found this thread googling hth to remove this feature -_____-.

JimRanes

New Participant

This issue still is not solved. Replying to bump this topic. Anyone know of any progress on how to turn off the home screen? Very annoying. The setting in the preferences does NOT work. C'mon Adobe, PLEASE fix this!!!

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Mike353088081lcl

New Participant

This is beyond annoying. All previous versions of Acrobat, ctrl-w would close the pdf and minimize acrobat. Now i have to constantly content with this useless home screen taking up my entire desktop.

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fumblerooskie

Participating Frequently

Agreed. It's beyond useless for me and a complete waste of space.
I really wish Adobe would listen to its customers. It seems very arrogant to simply ignore/deny requests to have the ability to completely custominze the workspace. Instead we have to deal with nonsense such as the uneeded/unwanted "home screen" and the bright blue "Adobe Account" button. Adobe appears to have become Quark from the '90s.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

"See the correct answer posted in the link below..."

This is a MacOS only feature, not available on Windows.

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Mike Bro

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@Joe26853055d0nb

See the correct answer posted in the link below...

you may want to uncheck the show online storage options also...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-make-home-screen-goes-away-after-closing-pdf-file-in-acrobat-dc/td-p/7037565

Regards,

Mike

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Ratushebarl

New Participant

Are you AI? That page is from 2015, the option no longer exists.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

There are only humans on this users forum.
I don't use a Mac any more so I can't check whether this option still exists, but what I can say for sure is that it only existed in the Mac version, not in the Windows version.

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Meenakshi Negi

Community Manager

Hi Joe26853055d0nb,

Thank you for reaching out.

If you are referring to removing the Home page in Acrobat that opens by default when you open the application directly, it is not possible. It is designed behavior.

Let us know if you were referring to some other feature.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

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MikeMac966

Known Participant

Then it's a stupid design that belongs in Windows 98. The multi-step process for accessing files (if not recent) is also incredibly annoying and counterproductive. A backwards step.

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randy_3232

New Participant

The persistent "Home" screen in Adobe Acrobat is beyond annoying, it disrupts the workflow and feels absolutely unnecessary. When I close a document, I want the app to close entirely rather than defaulting to the "Home" screen.

I’ve explored the preferences but couldn’t find an option to disable this feature. It would be great if Adobe allowed users to customize this behavior. Adding an option to skip the "Home" screen would improve the experience for many users who prefer a simpler, document-focused workflow.

Agree. I must do 100 - 200 extra mouse clicks on a typical day just to get back to the screen I was on when I opened a PDF document. When closing a document, I want to go back to the same screen and not have to go to my tray and click the Explorer icon then the correct page of the several that I have open at the same time. Beyond frustrating!

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