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P: When launching Photoshop it recurringly takes focus from another application/task (Windows)

LEGEND ,
Sep 22, 2016 Sep 22, 2016

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When I open PhotoShop, it takes my computer a moment or two to open it (most of my PSDs are at least 2GB big), so I switch back to my browser to keep working, but every time there is an alert, or popup, or question, or it simply successfully opens the PSD, PhotoShop forces itself to the front, interrupting what I was doing in another window.
It can be very frustrating, especially since I am more often than not in the middle of doing something.
And I wish it was as simple as Alt+Tab-ing back to my window, but sometimes it just forces its way to the front again!
I don't suppose this is a feature that can be taken off/switched off?

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Adobe Employee , Oct 18, 2017 Oct 18, 2017
This is fixed in the current version, available for download this morning.

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LEGEND ,
Jun 18, 2018 Jun 18, 2018

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This was extremely annoying - thank you very much for fixing it (I just updated Photoshop to get this fix 😉 ).

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LEGEND ,
Mar 19, 2019 Mar 19, 2019

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1 year after the fix - still not fixed, happens in Photoshop, Lightroom, Acrobat... and not only on startup, in Acrobat it continuously steals focus while for instance combining many PDFs into one (a task that takes a while and SHOULD be able to work in the background).

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 19, 2019 Mar 19, 2019

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Yep, LR and PS (latest versions) both steal focus on my PC

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LEGEND ,
Mar 19, 2019 Mar 19, 2019

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Peculiar - it used to happen to me (which is why I get updates on this thread) but it's no longer doing it. Win 10 Pro and lastest version of Photoshop CC.

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 02, 2019 Jun 02, 2019

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I'm still getting the "stealing focus" problem, it happens on startup and when saving an image (once the image has finished saving, PS jumps to the front of other windows).

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Adobe Employee ,
Jun 03, 2019 Jun 03, 2019

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David are you on macOS or Windows? Can you make a video of what you're seeing?

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 03, 2019 Jun 03, 2019

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Windows 10 (1903 as of last week), I'll try and video it next time I'm editing an image..hopefully this week

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Adobe Employee ,
Jun 05, 2019 Jun 05, 2019

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We could only reproduce this on Windows when trying to change focus to Microsoft's Edge Browser on launch. Switching to other apps we tried kept Photoshop in the background on launch.

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LEGEND ,
Jun 05, 2019 Jun 05, 2019

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Sorry Jeff, but it happens on macOS HiSierra and Mojave with us as well in CC2019. You can start batch processing in PS,(Script-ImageProcessor or Automate-Batch) switch to other apps and PS will randomly grab the focus away from whatever app you are on. Also, if you have Finder open with 2 windows, PS will randomly grab focus away from one of these windows which makes it look as if the Finder window has closed. It happens regardless of app window states such as size, full screen or location. And I'm referring to having the PS image window set to full screen, tabbed or minimized as well as regardless of having more than one image open in PS.
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