I am virulently anti-AI art. I'm slightly less virulently against popups within a program while I'm trying to work. The worst is this popup appears *over* tools I'm trying to use while I'm working. Extremely frustrating.
I have rich tooltips off and have tried turning all tooltips on/off again, nothing works so far. This only started in the last couple days for me.
This is happening to a lot of people. Yes, you have my full sympathy, this would drive me crazy too.
It seems in some way to be connected to the Home screen and/or the new contextual task bar. Even if you may have both disabled. I'd try a complete reset of preferences. Then make sure to turn these two off first thing, close Photoshop and reopen to make sure they are both gone. Then do the rest of the settings.
Actually I think the decent thing for Adobe to do now, considering the amount of users affected, is to release an update where this popup is completely removed. Then don't come back with it until they know it will behave.
@D Fosse the only thing that fixed it for me was the nuclear approach and format my C drive. I tried everything under the sun, resetting preferences, disabling home screen and contextual task bar, using the Adobe cleaner tool and then removing everything related to Adobe from my C drive, nothing would work.
So I had to spend 8 hours formatting and reconfiguring my PC back to the way it was, at least now I can open Photoshop 25.6 without that stupid AI gen tutorial.
It's happening to me too and it's so incredibly frustrating! It pops up every five minutes. It doesn't even have a clickable link, it's just there on top of my tools. Like an anoying fly that just cannot be swatted away, it's making me f***ing miserable.
@D Fosse I actually can't remember the last time I've seen any Adobe staff participating in the bug section, as far as I can see they have abandoned ship, I actually tagged 3 of them if this thread, and they never replied.
It looks like (I have no way to be sure!) that this preference is stored in ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop 2024 Settings/UIPrefs.psp. If you open that file in a text editor like BBEdit, you'll see
This is a binary file with text strings, you can try quitting Photoshop, moving that file to your desktop, then relaunching. Don't delete the file, and this may 1. not help and 2. reset a bunch of your preferences so do this at your own risk blah blah.
In the reddit posts I've seen yesterday 09Apr and today 10Apr, it's only Ps 2023 that seems to have these pop ups. I've not yet seen a post from someone using Ps 2024.
In one of the posts, a respondent commented that dropping back to Ps 2022 from 2023 fixed it for them.
The folks that have posted about the problem at reddit are those that do not want to update to Ps 25.x. They want to keep using Ps 2023 and have no interest in the newer features.
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