Cannot Select Individual Layers in a Group Folder

[CaioSaulnier]

Before the Photoshop 2025 update, I was able to select a layer within a group by simply using Alt/Option + Left Click when my Move Tool was set to Auto-Select and the dropdown was on "Group". This option no longer works, and my muscle memory is struggling here hahaha, since I've been using Command + Alt + Right Click to achieve the same function.

Any help with this? I'd love to have the simpler option working again.

PS: I thought I was going crazy, so I went to do some research and found forum posts confirming that the simple shortcut I’m referring to actually did exist.

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/3523/direct-select-layer-ps

[Rene Andritsch]

@CaioSaulnier sorry for the late reply. I tried this with PS 26.8.1 on macOS 15.5 and found out, that you can achieve what you want if you use the key combination CMD+ALT+CTRL on macOS. Can’t speak for Windows though. Please see attached screen capture.

[Bojan Živković]

Alt + right-click works for me on Windows in the situation described above.