Black screen when editing text

[defaultikvdcnsj3wj4]

I am running Photoshop 2022 on an M1 Max Macbook Pro (16", 2021). Photoshop is up to date as of 8/30/2022.

Whenever I go to type/change the text in a text box, the entire work area goes blank (everything inside and outside of canvas except for menus). I am able to enter and change the text successfully, but of course I can't see what I'm doing. It does not happen when I just select the text layer and change font, text size, edit layer styles, etc. This has only been an issue over the last week or few weeks at most - I think there was an auto-update in that time, but I'm not positive.

I have tried the Preferences > Performance > Graphics Processor Settings > uncheck Use Graphics Processor to no vail, and honestly, I don't think this would be a good long-term solution even if it did work given the processing capability of the M1 SoC that this would seemingly forego.

I'd appreciate any input on other workarounds. Otherwise, it seems like this is a bug that needs to be patched in a future update.

Thanks!

[CoryShubert · Accepted solution]

Hi @defaultikvdcnsj3wj4 sorry to hear this.

Go to Preferences > Technology Previews... and check "Disable Native Canvas" - then restart Photoshop. Does the problem still occur? 

If not, iet's make sure we're in a default state and there are no stale settings somewhere: 

Restore your preferences using this manual method:  

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually  

Does it work correctly? 

If that doesn't solve it, you can quit Photoshop and put the Settings folder back. 

It may help if we could see your Photoshop System Info. Launch Photoshop, and select Help >System Info...and copy/paste the text in a reply.  

Thank you,

[Guilherme Borba]

Thanks, work for me! 🙂

[J5C8B]

I had the exact same problem. I changed some options on preferences few weeks back and it started happening. 
so what i did to fix is ..
go to Preferences>Technology Previews

and UNCHECK both "Disable Native Canvas" and "Enable Native Canvas Rulers".

Let me know if it works for you! 

[defaultikvdcnsj3wj4]

This worked, thanks! For me the setting was marked as Preferences > Technology Previews > Deactivate Native Canvas

So, similar but not exactly the same in case anyone else is confused by that.

[J5C8B]

Glad it helped 🙂 !