Remove tool progress bar always on

[ppdix]

Since Beta 25.10 and even the newer 25.11 everytime I use the remove tool and check "remove after each stroke" a boxed progress bar shows EVERY TIME. Even at the smallest stroke the box shows up in a fixed position on the top center of the screen. It's really annoying and invasive. I looked for a way to turn it off but i can't find it. It's so bad I am back to using the normal version of PS since I can't work like that. I use the remove tool constantly. Before, it used to have a small unintrusive spinning circle and the progress bar would only show in longer and more complex tasks...

Please bring back the old spinner instead of this box.

Thank you

[Trevor.Dennis]

That's the way it works.  All those Ai tools send part of the image to Adobe servers to find suitable stock imagery to fill in the selection.  The progress bar will show according to how fast your internet connection is.

This screen shot is 805 pixels wide.  That selection showed the progress bar for three seconds.

I am rural NZ, so not the fastest connection.

[Janduza]

Incorrect, before the generative AI was added into the remove tool – short strokes of remove tool typically rendered instantaneously with no progress bar. It was NOT dependent on connection speed because it rendered locally off the image data. This is what ppdix was refering to. Please read the original description carefully. Go back a few versions and test it out and you'll see the remove tool does not show a progress bar if the rendering occurs under a half second or so.

Currently, on beta the remove tool has an option to use generative AI for the remove tool and that is understandably going to need the progress bar. HOWEVER, the situation mentioned here is about the current version of Photoshop which still only has local content-aware rendering, and the option in beta to use local data over generative AI.

In either case, the progress bar should not appear if the render happens near instantaneously. The progress bar just flashing for a milisecond is extremely distracting. Imagine if the paint brush did that – it would be absurd.

[RedFishBlack]

This is really annoying and I have the same problem now in the non beta version 25.11.0 please make it as it was before...once at the beginning

[ppdix]

now they put this annoying box in the final version of photoshop as well...

What are these designers doing?