Hide the “welcome” screen?

[MacUserSince96]

I have installed Adobe acrobat reader on my Mac. When no PDF files are open, I see it automatically opens a “welcome” screen, the default page being the Recent tab. This tab contains advertisements which I don’t like so I would like to hide this tab or perhaps the whole default screen When acrobat reader launches. Can I find a setting to do that in the preferences?

Architecture: x86_64

Processor: Intel

Build: 25.1.20643.0

AGM: 7.1.17

CoolType: 10.0.7

JP2K: 4.0.2.54782

[creative explorer · Accepted solution]

@MacUserSince96 Totally! On a Mac, you can typically find this by going to Acrobat Reader > Preferences in the menu bar. From there, navigate to the General category and uncheck the box next to this option. By doing so, you prevent the application from defaulting to the home screen with its "Recent" tab and advertisements. Instead, when you launch the application without opening a specific PDF, the main application window will be a blank, document-less interface. I do this when I work at client offices with my MacBook... I don't want them to see what else I am working on either!