how do I always open in desktop app?

[Michael33562171lvle]

New Acrobat opens in the browser by default.  I DO NOT want pdfs opening in the browser.  I want them to open in my desktop app by default.  How do I change the setting?

[JR Boulay]

You can find this setting in your browser Preferences/Settings/Options.

[victoria28645242tpwp]

What setting do you change in Options?

[victoria28645242tpwp]

Did you figure out?   It is not clear to me what option to change.

[AnandSri]

Hello Victoria!

I hope you are doing well, and thanks for reaching out.

If you are trying to make Acrobat or Reader the default PDF viewer so that the PDFs always open in the Adobe Acrobat desktop app instead of the browser, please see this article for the steps: https://adobe.ly/3Rt2IOR

For the browser settings: 

Google Chrome: Go to chrome://settings/content/pdfDocuments. Enable: “Download PDFs” instead of automatically opening them in Chrome. This ensures PDFs are downloaded, not opened in the Chrome PDF viewer.

Microsoft Edge: Go to edge://settings/content/pdfDocuments. Toggle ON: "Always download PDF files".

I hope this helps, and let us know if you need any assistance.

Thanks,

Anand Sri.