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October 20, 2017
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Adobe Preview CC & Photoshop CC 2018

  • October 20, 2017
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i update photoshop cc 2017 to 2018 this morning..and shock~ i can't preview my photoshop app design on iphone ..and i found the answer..
"Device Preview is no longer available in this release. Additionally, the Preview CC iOS app is no longer available for download or actively maintained as of October 2017. If you have a previously-downloaded version of Preview CC on your iOS device, you can continue to use it on an as-is basis with earlier versions of Photoshop"

so now.. how can i get real-time previews of my Photoshop designs on iOS devices ?

why Adobe takes off this feature??? TT....

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51 replies

Participant
October 30, 2017

The lack of this one feature prompts me to switch to sketch.

Participant
October 27, 2017

This is crap, but if you have a mac you have nothing to worry about.

Use the app we used before Adobe Preview

Skala Preview

Galkon
Participant
October 28, 2017

In theory yes. But I tried Skala out, and the performance was far worse than Device Preview built into Photoshop CC itself. I actually have 0 performance issues with Device Preview on 2017 CC, so their claim that it was for performance is BS. Skala is really laggy and intensive on resources for me. I had to resort to downgrading back to 2017 CC.

xspace
Participating Frequently
October 27, 2017

Frustration. I was really happy with device preview and now! Same with Reflow and other tools.

I think I need to move to a non Adobe mockup tool. Photoshop and XS seems not to be the right choice and further I don´t want to use software which changes all 3 months. Updates and improvements o.k. but not unexepexted software and features downgrades. That´s the problem with subscription packages. We all are slaves of them.

Inspiring
October 27, 2017

This is very frustrating, I use Adobe Preview so much in my work. Let's hope they realise their mistake and bring it back. Might have to downgrade in the meantime, which is a shame as I really like the new search function.

Galkon
Participant
October 26, 2017

Just uninstalled 2018 and downgraded back to 2017 because of this. Adobe, I seriously cannot believe the ignorance behind this decision. Why would you remove one of the absolute best features of Photoshop CC 2017 and kill UI designers incentive to keep using CC products?

Participating Frequently
October 26, 2017

Hello everybody! If this is the case, I recommend putting this iOS application:

Canvas for Photoshop в App Store

It seems to work well

Participating Frequently
October 26, 2017

This totally solves my problem.  Thanks for suggesting Canvas for Photoshop!  Woohoo!

Participating Frequently
October 26, 2017

Adobe,

I use Photoshop to make ads for iPhone and iPad for large companies like Disney and Universal that involve illustrations and creating within Photoshop.  It's crucial that I can view these quickly on my mobile devices.  Having to save an image and open it in XD or send to my devices takes a lot of time out of my work day since I'd be doing it many times a day.  Please consider bringing this product back.

Does anyone know of third party plug-ins that do this?

Junior Rocha
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 8, 2017

Skala Preview

Its a very good alternative to Device Preview

happie_97
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 26, 2017

Hello everyone,

Sorry you are upset and I totally understand your frustration. I loved using Preview across all of my devices as well.

However, XD is a great and easy to use program. There isn't a huge learning curve and it is available for Windows based computers. This is a new direction for you but if you try it I am sure you will eventually like it. If not, you also have the option of running 2017 and/or 2018 versions on your computer. I still have 2014, 2017, and 2018 because of certain features.

FYI...There is a note at the top of this page that explains that preview will no longer work. Device Preview in Photoshop.

I hope one of these solutions helps.

rahim_haji
Participant
October 30, 2017

Hi there,

ok so you are asking us to use Xd.... but this does not have a preview on mobile feature also.... so what do we now?

Grokked
Participating Frequently
October 30, 2017

XD does indeed have a mobile preview feature and a corresponding mobile app and it works quite well. That said, the preview app for Photoshop also worked quite well and should have remained a part of Photoshop.

Participant
October 26, 2017

How can this be true?

It makes no sense at all!

Adding a great feature an then... Adobe says "Sorry, we've decided that you shouldn't be able to preview your designs in mobile, because sales stuff and KPI's and ROI's and the user really doesn't matters."

What  are we paying for?

Participant
October 26, 2017

@Adobe this is very frustrating, please bring the Preview feature back (into the CC 2018 update)