Disable "View > Extras"

[saxtonstudio]

I have been searching in vain for months and still see no answer to this issue.  View > Extras has a mind of its own, and the only way to stop it is to constantly go to View and uncheck it – literally every time you so much as touch a layer. It's incredibly annoying and distracting. Would truly be grateful for a solution.

PS: Working environment: Mac OS Sonoma 14.6.1, Photoshop 25.12

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

@saxtonstudio if you are referring to the blue outline on objects and layers - that new feature isnt controlled by "Extras".

Go to the move tool and choose the gear icon in the options bar above.

Disable (uncheck) the "Hover" features.

[saxtonstudio]

I have them disabled. All of them. Hasn't made a difference.

It's weird because the "Extras" item keeps re-asserting itself. Constantly!

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

@saxtonstudio are you making these changes without a document open?

[saxtonstudio]

I'm not sure I follow you. Whenever I have a document open, this is the behavior. (I've also looked through preference settings, can't find anything in there.)  If there is no document open, I don't see any useful information (?)  When quitting photoshop and re-opening a document, it immediately defaults to Extras on (and as described, they keep coming back on). 

[D Fosse]

View > Extras is a temporary toggle.

You disable the individual components permanently under View > Show. And in fact you do need to have a document open in order to access most of them.

The exception is the new Layer Bounds on Hover, which is disabled under the cogwheel in the options bar, with the Move Tool active. (I think that should be moved to the View menu along with the rest).

[saxtonstudio]

Attached is my View > Show window. Didn't see anything there, so opened the Show Extra Options window (also attached) – Is this where the problem may lie?

(Side note: this never used to happen. I've been using Photoshop for decades; it's a very strange occurrence in the last several months, and I've seen that I'm not alone in my frustration!)

[D Fosse]

It helps to be specific. What exactly is it you need to disable?

[saxtonstudio]

Apologies, I thought it was understood in my opening statement. Items within a layer are continually outlined in a blue active box, as if you were going to do a size change, for example. Just highlighting a layer in the layer window can cause the box to appear, without taking any action. In order to get rid of the blue blox, I've had to uncheck "Extras" – which I had never "checked" in the first place. Then the cycle continues as you move to a new layer, or make any change whatsoever, the box reappears, and the "Extras" has a check beside it. The constant appearance of this blue box with handles is very intrusive.

[jane-e]

@saxtonstudio 

Can you show us what you have in the cogwheel dropdown in the options bar for the Move tool? It really looks like Hover Layer, even though you said it wasn't.

https://photoshopcafe.com/hover-layer-in-photoshop/

Jane

[saxtonstudio · Accepted solution]

Jane – My drop down is clear, as you will see, but the Show Transform Controls over to the left was checked! When I unchecked that, I lost the blue boxes. How did I miss that??? Small nightmare seems to be over!

[jane-e]

Hi @saxtonstudio 

Adobe moved the Show Transform Controls to the cogwheel, then moved it back to its own spot recently in response to user requests. I'm glad that looking at the options bar helped you find it, and thank you for reporting back!

Jane

[Lumigraphics]

You haven't been specific. EXACTLY what is it you can't disable?

[saxtonstudio]

I just explained it to D Fosse. It's the blue "active" box, when I'm not taking any action.