Issue Photoshop 2024 with Mac OS Sonoma

Moved from Photoshop CS6 on Mac Pro running El Capitan after years of smooth sailing.

I am now on the new Mac Studio M2 Max, with Photshop 2024.

What utter garbage! Photoshop 2024 (and Bridge...) is slower than CS6 on an older machine!

And all those new shortcuts and functions have made Photoshop unusable. It's full of problems.

As a professional for over 20 years, it's such a big step backward.

Luckily I have kept my old computer as I don't think I will last long on this new version. I also tried Adobe Support, through Remote, and the agent could not do anything about the problems (one of them is having a blank dark window opening in the background on which my "floating" images should snap as tabs, which I don't want to use). All he/she said after trying a few things was : it's the new UI/Interface and functions. Then he/she cut the support chat without any other explanaiton about the issue or other problems I had.

Same here. 2024 lags about 5 seconds behind on every click with the lasso tool and movement around is jumpy. Totally rediculous, as I revert back to Photoshop 2023 and it runs smooth on Sonoma.

Adobe need to sort this out. From Photoshop to Acrobat, nothing is working properly.

"This issue (flickering cursor) has been occurring for me for at least 10 years. It applies to the majority of Mac computers I've worked on. The only common factor is that I have been using the Polish keyboard setting on an English system. This problem has been described multiple times and continues to persist. Additionally, when it happens in Photoshop, other Adobe programs also experience the same issue (Illustrator, In-design, After Effects. The only solution for me is to turn off and restart Photoshop. This helps for a while."
P.S. If you take a closer look, it's not the normal arrow point from Photoshop but the system arrow

I had just installed the 50% OFF Adobe All Apps Subscription (tomorrow is the last day). Trying Illustrator and Photoshop. Still on trial for 7 days. Illustrator works fine.  But Photoshop is zero gravity. Once it loads, it's frozen. You can't do anything as it's not responding to any clicks and force quit is the only way out. Tried to uninstall and re-install, still no cigar.

I am probably going to cancel this deal. I realized the total cost for a year is still about $528. Still expensive considering I'm not using all the apps. So, it's probably easier to jump ship for alternative apps. I think Affinity Designer/Photo might the second best option for digital production. Unless you got money to burn, Illustrator and Photoshop are still the best apps for digital/vector work. 

Not really, lots of glitches still, and vanishing point still does not work. I updated today, my cursor was going crazy and such a lag, then I noticed there was an update.  That helped a little, but still no vanishing point 😞

The liquefy filter is still unstable with Sonoma 14.1.1.

It's pexpleses me how everyone seem to have different problems smh; and they seem to change as well. Both PS'23 and PS'24 are working for me rn after I've updated to Sonoma's latest. Both cranky but workable.

But then Wacom drivers started acting up. First calibration broke, I've reverted to older driver and now calibration is correct but I get a "Wacom driver stopped responding" pop-up every now and then but it's still responding to pen. Unrelatedly, the cintiq itself turns off like like it has no signal then back on again, all plugs are in place so that's not the issue. Anyone have a similar problem?.. I've never had anything like that up until Sonoma / PS 2024 clashed together. 🤕

It's been 2 days since I reinstalled PS 2023 on my Mac running the latest Sonoma update. So far so good... as long as I only use PS 2023. A couple of times I clicked on an image in Bridge (and my desktop) and it automatically opened in PS 2024 (I did not uninstall PS 2024). As soon as it opened innPS 2024 my tool palette was useless; I just got the hand icon. I did a Force Quit of PS 2024 and dragged the same image to the PS 2023 icon and the image opened perfectly, complete with a fully functional Tool palette. My only complaint is I have to be careful to drag and drop the image from Bridge instead of just clicking on it. 

Also having huge issues- all my window/ tool pallette options in the hamburger are inactive... trying to understand if a solution is imminent, or if I need to downgrade back to Ventura?????

The "hand" popped up once in a while when I was working with the latest Photoshop update and up-to-date Sonoma  yesterday but was a permanent icon today. I have a project that has to be finished by tomorrow so after trying everything everyone in this thread has suggested I gave up and did a Safe Reboot and then went into Time Machine for a working copy of Photoshop 2024. Then I rebooted my iMac so my Cinema Dusply would also mount. So far it's been working fine for the past hour. The problem seems to lie with Adobe, not Mac.