Hide Illustrator should use standard keyboard shortcut on Mac

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
January 24, 2023
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Adobe seems to be settling on Ctrl+Cmd+H to Hide applications on Mac (Photoshop, After Effects). Illustrator still has no default shortcut for this, but worse, we cannot use the Mac Ctrl key for any (?) shortcuts in Illustrator.

This doesn't make sense to the user. Muscle memory for common actions like hiding should be respected and universalized across apps.

Feature request

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its.pronounced.fee

Participant

I'm not sure if this has been addressed but you can just re-assign CMD+H to "Hide Illustrator" in the Keyboard shortcuts, it'll just un-assign the "Hide Edges" default.

Voi Smith

Participating Frequently

Well done, nice one that's saved me some time & clicks! ^_^ ❤️

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

You can edit your keyboard shortcuts to make it Cmd H.

SteveKirbyAuthor

Known Participant

Please read my OP. I'd like to keep keyboard shortcuts consistent across apps within Creative Cloud. PS and AE now use Control+Command+H. The Mac Control key (not the same as the Command key / Windows Ctrl key) seems to be totally unavailable to AI shortcuts.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

After effects currently has issues with using the Mac standard Cmd-H. I believe if you click 'Hide Extras' in that window, Photoshop will then default to the Ctrl+Cmd+H I described.

Well, that is what I did, reset Photoshop and I clicked the Hide Extras causing Photoshop to use the standard Cmd-H for Hide Extras and the non standard Ctrl-Cmd-H to hide Photoshop. After Effects uses Cmd-H to hide the app.

Ctrl-Cmd-H is not a standard on Mac.

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