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SteveKirby
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
Question

Hide Illustrator should use standard keyboard shortcut on Mac

  • January 24, 2023
  • 2 replies
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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.

2 replies

Participant
October 16, 2024

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
January 31, 2025

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

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 24, 2023

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

SteveKirby
Known Participant
January 24, 2023

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.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 24, 2023

If you want to have ctrl to be available in the shortcuts, please post a feature request: https://illustrator.uservoice.com