How can I hide the Tools Pane when opening a pdf in Acrobat?

[jaystar1945]

Whenever I open an existing pdf document, by default Acrobat always includes the right-hand side "tools pane", which takes up about 1/3rd of the window pane.  To minimise it, I have to always go to >>View,>>Show/Hide,>>Tools Pane>> then toggle/click.  Or on my laptop shift+Fn Key+F4.

How can I change this to not include the Tools Pane in full and just have it in its minimised form, like icons on the right-hand side, which is how it shows when I manually hide it.

[CVHManchester]

Why do they do this to us?  Perhaps because we are just the users, so not important within the Adobe programming kindergarden that likes playing.

[Dzt user]

Well, it's a joke that ultimately, the old acrobat reader is really the way to go. I don't see any benefits to using the new Acrobat Reader at all. They have to fix this...

[Shawn34418404gzvv]

Click "Menu" at the top left.  About 2/3 of the way down, "Disable new Acrobat Reader". Seems to fix the issue on my end. You can re-enable the new reader by clicking "View" (when running the old version), and Enable the new reader. 

[Katherine Hol34428490zk86]

Thank you, this worked!

[F_e_r_n]

 WHY DID THEY REMOVE THIS, its malarkey to have to deal side panel and all tools opening every single time one opens a document. I dont ues any of them and as a paid version why is this not possible?!?!

PS that restore last view setting doesnt work even though its checked.

[SARFARAZ311327402lon]

Permanently close the left-hand side, "All tools" pane in Adobe Reader

In the Preferences window, select the Documents category.
Check the box that says Remember current state of Tools Pane.
This setting ensures that the tools pane will remain minimized if it was minimized the last time you used Adobe Acrobat Reader.

It will work 100%.

Thanks,

Sarfaraz Mohammed

[F_e_r_n]

From what i can see this issue has been a problem for alot of poeple using this program since 2018, its 2025 and its still an issue. 

[ScraggyScale]

+1. It works but only in DC releases - see Old Thread. In Acrobat Classic these check boxes does nothing. Poor QC. I also wasn't able to report this through adobes support chat as they always told me to "upgrade" to the latest release. Just a joke these support centers...