P: Switching Tabs in Wrong Order || Shortcut - Roundabout

@M-H

1) No one said anything about a coding mistake. It's irrelevant if it was a mistake or not
2) No one said programmers "couldnt work out the order". They definitely can, hence the bug report
3) No one said the current behavior "isn't on purpose", although I seriously doubt it was
4) There's this thing called user configurations. You can support both options and let people choose the one they prefer

22 upvotes in 14 years to me its clear sign of this not really being such a big problem as you might think it is.

Do you actually believe the way it cycles now is result of someones mistake in coding and they dont want to own up to the error they made? Programmers were able to did all the improvements since 2011 but somehow they couldnt work out the order? It opens them as it does on purpose! If something doesnt have a purpose for you it only means it just doesnt have purpose for you. It doesnt automatically mean its a problem just becuase its a problem for you!

@M-H The fact that it's been known since 2008 means it's been a problem for 17 years. That doesn't mean it isn't a problem. Perfect example was the alt window focus bug competing with mouse modifiers that took YEARS to build a workaround for

There are plenty of reasons tab-ordering in PS is a problem. People reorder tabs, people rip tabs out of the main window, people don't always think to open files in a carefully curated order. So what happens is you're tabbing through and if you've reordered your tabs in a way that has a purpose (i.e. workflow staging, reference palettes, grouping matched variants, etc.). If you're a professional working on tranches of related content, ctrl+tab arrives at... who knows? Maybe a reference image, maybe a Stories variant, maybe Facebook variant. This is obviously a huge problem. The typical biz focus is product people obsessing over squishing as much half-baked functionality into the app as possible instead of cleaning/refining what's already there

On any tabbed application, the default behavior is to cycle left-to-right. If you want to add a flag in the app setting to switch between tab-cycle behavior or better yet, make BOTH options available with swappable hotkeys, be my guest. But to say we're just going to force-feed gen AI into the app at the expense of basic feature improvements is pretty poor decision-making

I dont really understand how this is an issue? Photoshop cycles through order the image were opened and not the tabs order on the screen. Its a desired behaviour and was known since the tabs feature was added to Photoshop CS4 in 2008:

https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/photoshop-cs4/tabbed-document-windows/

In 2025 we've got plugins like https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/cc/9a125a3a?pluginId=9a125a3a - its not really a solution for different order of cycling but makes cycling between many open docs easier by displaying tab thumbnails in a panel.

Posting here to add my +1. Greetings, future visitors, from the year 2025.

One day in the far flung future... May we have proper tabbing 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Twenty sixth of September of the Twenty Twenty Fourth Year of Our Lord, the Empire has fallen and Adobe Photoshop CC 2024 still has not correctly implemented the Ctrl+Tab tab cycling feature, a skeumorphic paradigm first introduced in computing User Interfaces in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen-Ninety-Four (Thirty Whole Years Ago). The Rebel AIs have started their uprising and the future looks bleak. Blight strikes the crops and the Sun turns dark. Emperor Adobe, please have mercy and shine your Light upon us, we the lowly Pixel Pushers, both the rogue FreeLancer clans and the Guilded Brethren. Salutations and Peace 

Can't believe this hasn't been fixed after all this years. This is such a BASIC feature!

Anyone taking a look? Is this on the product roadmap? Is there any known workaround via key command remapping?

This must be a bad joke... It takes 12 years and Adobe still cannot implement a working basic tab switching like practically every other program that runs on windows?

I realized today that Photshop is still switching the wrong tab order, if you rearranged the tabs after opening them. Had this problem in the past, but didn't have time to actually investigate. Now we have 2023 and i just discover the same old issue. SMH...