Command H does not hide marching ants anymore

[TinRobot44]

Using a Mac with CC 20.  Used to be that CMD H would hide the marching ants of a selection.  Now it hides Photoshop. What happened?  How do I fix this, or use a different key to hide the ants?

[Jean-François Vibert]

Hello ! 

I recently experiment exactly the same problem as you...

On a Macbook Air M1 under Mac OS 12.1 : this is new...

I've trye many different solution, and no succes. Including modifi the text of the Préference Keyboard Shortcuts in Application Support.

Nothing worked... 

Any new informations ?

[PECourtejoie]

@Jean-François Vibert bonjour!

je remarque que CMD+H est listé deux fois, qu'en est-il s'il n'est utilisé que dans l'un des deux raccourcis ? Normalement, il devrait y avoir un message d'erreur, non?

[Mark Fredrickson]

I really hate this stuff. I still can't get command H to work. Why did this change. It's as bad as the Command F key putting me in search!

[ASINGULARITY]

See prior fix. This is a quote:

In Photoshop go Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts, go to View, and change the Shortcut for Extras to Cmd-H.

You'll get a warning that this changes an OS shortcut which is fine (I think the OS shortcut changes to Cmd-Ctrl-H). You may need to quit Photoshop and relaunch, but Cmd-H will hide marching ants after that.

Otherwise you can continue to use Cmd-Ctl-H to hide selections."

Per my setup osx Sonoma, M2.

[Mark Fredrickson]

Thanks. On another thread someone showed how to do it with a nice animation, which I needed because it was impossible for me to find otherwise. I just have to remember to keep saving my workspace to keep it installed when I reset preferences after the usual spinning ball comes back after about ten to twenty hours worth of Photoshop work.