I still cannot find the shape tool I need. I want to insert an arrow. I tried resetting the shape tools to no avail.

We have AI integration now, but drawing an arrow in Photoshop is still a nightmare. Why nobody in the dev team ever had the idea just to have the basic shapes ready available in the UI without having to search the internet and forum everytime for tutorials is beyond me. I am using Photoshop since 23 years now and still struggle to draw a simple arrow. Its quirky, hidden and hard to do. I gave up and now use Snagit to draw arrows. Just a lot quicker than to try to find presets in Photoshop.

These shapes are not included in my shapes menu after recent updates. It's super frustrating and even following your advice does not find where they may be stored or accessed. They seem to have dissapeared, and been replaced with a ridiculous selection of ''trees'', ''boats'', ''emoticons'', and other probably useless items. I now have to DRAW an arrow when I had a menu of them previously.

UPDATE: ''Restore Default Shapes" SEEMED to do nothing for several tries, but if you go digging, Arrows are there. FOUR folders into ''Legacy Shapes and More''. Find; Legacy Shapes and More>2019 Shapes>All legacy default shapes>Arrows. This is beyond frustrating and pointless as an update to the program features. Hopefully this comment will help someone simply find what they are looking for without being told they are not following directions properly!

try right clicking the shape icon then silecting the arrow shape.

Did you try either click and hold or right clicking on the icon where the shape tools are in the tool bar to get the line tool? The gear just shows up if the line tool is selected. This really hasn't changed in PS.