Object Selection Tool suddenly makes System OS act funky

[edeltofugeniesser]

Hi,

I'm experiencing a recurring bug running Photoshop v24.7 on my MacBook Pro 2021 M1 Max, OS v13.5.
I'm pretty sure it's happening more or less as soon as I use the Object Selection Tool, especially in "Add to selection" mode. I can't remember correctly if that's the only instance this is happening because when this started happening I suspected the OS rather than Photoshop having a bug so I had it hard to pin it down.

What it does is:
1. Keyboard Inputs are completely substituted with special characters, e.g. "√", "ⓒ", "(" and similar, not only in the Photoshop App but in the OS itself, wherever there is a text box in any app. Seems to change the system Input Source in some kind of way, though the OS doesn't display it when I check in the settings.
I've also reached out to Apple already and did a couple of tests with remote screen view, but they didn't know of a reason why it's happening.
This stays as long as I don't log out. So I don't even have to restart the Laptop to make it stop.
2. A minor cause of this: Inside of the Photoshop app, when I change tools, by clicking their icon on the toolbar, it automatically jumps to the next tool inside of the tool family, e.g. I click "rectangle selection" jumps to "ellipse selection" or I click "brush" jumps to "pencil" and so on.

I hope this will be patched in a upcoming version, I tried to find people online with similar problems but I haven't found anyone yet.

Thanks
-Chris

[edeltofugeniesser]

Also, I don't know if this could trigger anything, but I did have the Photoshop Beta version installed and it definitely started happening after I did that but I already deinstalled it and the problem stays.

[CShubert]

Hi @edeltofugeniesser 

Let's make sure we're in a default state and there are no stale settings somewhere: 

Restore your preferences using this manual method:  

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually  

Does it work correctly? 

If that doesn't solve it, you can quit Photoshop and put the Settings folder back. 

It may help if we could see your Photoshop System Info. Launch Photoshop, and select Help >System Info...and copy/paste the text in a reply.