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P: Search bar missing when browsing cloud documents

Community Beginner ,
Oct 10, 2025 Oct 10, 2025

I don't know if this a bug or just a change Adobe made in the recent updates, but there is no longer a search bar in the window that pops up when you try to open a new file while within a file, which I do daily to grab elements from other designs i've made in the past. Now you have to scroll through years of designs to spot the one you want, or you have to close photoshop, open it again, then you can search there for the design you want, open it and then open the original file you were working on.

Very very annoying.

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Adobe Employee , Nov 05, 2025 Nov 05, 2025

We understand. The team is already working on this.

Thanks for your continued patience. 

Sameer K
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Community Expert ,
Oct 10, 2025 Oct 10, 2025

What version of Photoshop and macOS are you using?

 

Can you post a screenshot of what your seeing?

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 14, 2025 Oct 14, 2025

Hello Jeff,

I'm on macOS Tahoe Version 26.0.1 (25A362) and Photoshop version 26.11.0. And screenshot attached. Thanks!

 

Screenshot 2025-10-14 at 9.56.50 AM.png

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Community Expert ,
Oct 14, 2025 Oct 14, 2025

@Iacoca5CC4 click "on your computer" bottom left if you are searching your HD, if you are searching the cloud use the Filter icon top right. 

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 14, 2025 Oct 14, 2025

Hi Kevin,

 

Thanks for replying! When looking for cloud documents, i only see a sorting option, not filter options.

 

Iacoca5CC4_0-1760473443046.png

 

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New Here ,
Oct 23, 2025 Oct 23, 2025

Why suddenly there's no search bar while brwosing your files on adobe photoshop, and even in my cloud files theres no seach bar, how am i supposed to look for the specific more conviniently with this? is this a bug or something, or should i toggle something to return the search bar feature? 

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 24, 2025 Oct 24, 2025

Hi @richard_7019, welcome to the community!
Could you share a few more details about the issue? Which version of Photoshop are you using? If possible, a screenshot would be super helpful. Thanks a lot!

Alek

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New Here ,
Oct 31, 2025 Oct 31, 2025

Hi @Aleke , I have the exact same problem after updating to 27.0.0 version. I attached the screenshot, whenever I want to open files and select cloud files, this window pops up. It's in Czech, but as you can see there is no search bar, only thing I can do is switch the grid view to list, sort from A to Z and scroll until I find what I need. Which is really annoying if you have more templates there. Please help.

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 31, 2025 Oct 31, 2025

Hi @marekk50580803, welcome to the community!
Thanks a lot for sharing the screenshot, it really helped clarify what you were referring to. We've passed it along to the team to check whether this was an intentional design update.
Appreciate you bringing it up!
Alek

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New Here ,
Nov 03, 2025 Nov 03, 2025

Why can't you search at all when doing ctrl + o to open a file in the cloud files anymore and ive just seen that its been removed from illustrator now too... it saves so much time with work having to look back for old files / elements... and now i have to close all my files to go back to the "your files" section to be able to search, its so unproductive and confusing.

 

And also why when I'm working with large files does the cloud saving function always stop working now, like multiple times per session I'll try save and the cloud files don't work and i have to fully restart all of the adobe apps for it to work again...

 

considering how big of a part of my career adobe is involved it's really worrying the direction all the apps are heading... I think I'm just going to invest in a hard drive and save everything locally but it's frustrating as having my files backed on the cloud has saved me a few times.

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New Here ,
Nov 05, 2025 Nov 05, 2025

@Aleke, this is really annoying bug so hopefully it gets fixed very soon.

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Adobe Employee ,
Nov 05, 2025 Nov 05, 2025

We understand. The team is already working on this.

Thanks for your continued patience. 

Sameer K
(Type '@' and type my name to mention me when you reply)

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New Here ,
Nov 16, 2025 Nov 16, 2025

Any update on this? I'm keen to know why they think removing the search bar is a good idea.

 

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New Here ,
Nov 19, 2025 Nov 19, 2025

After updating to the 26" versions of the applications, I can no longer search for files within Creative Cloud if I am already in a project.  So example, I am working on a project already and need to open another project. When I go to File>Open, I'm greeted with this window, which doesn't allow me to search like the previous versions did. 

Screenshot 2025-11-19 at 10.40.50 AM.png

 

Now, If I wanted to search for other projects, I have to exit Photoshop and open the Creative Cloud App separately and search through there, which presents its own set of issues that I won't get into here. Is there anyway to revert this UI back or am I missing something?

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New Here ,
Nov 25, 2025 Nov 25, 2025
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When I am in Photoshop (or Illustrator) and try to open a file saved in Adobe Cloud, there is no search or scroll bar. It used to be there. Now I have to click near a file or folder, but not enough to open it, so that I can use my arrows to scroll, and I have years' worth of files.  More times than not I open something I didn;t intend to.  Sometimes, when I open the Cloud, a scroll bar momentarily flashes, but then disappears. Can someone tell me how to get them back? I am using windows. 

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