Panels keep moving to side of screen after relatunching

Report · May 08, 2025

Hi, I'm working on the latest Photoshop 2025 version on Mac Studio 2025 (M4 Chip) and everytime my computer goes to sleep, the panels move to the side of the screen. I work on two monitors and keep all the panels on my secondary screen. I've tried resetting workspace, locking panels, everything and it still moves to the side of the screen.

Can anyone help?

Report · May 09, 2025

Hi @khoibpham

A few other users have also reported this issue, which seems to affect multiple apps. I'll highlight this to the team for further investigation. In the meantime, could you please help by sharing a few additional details?

Go to Photoshop > Help > System Info, then click Copy and paste the system information here.
Did this behavior start after a recent update to Photoshop or macOS?
How is your secondary monitor connected to your Mac Studio — via HDMI, DisplayPort, or through a Type-C dongle/adapter?

Thanks for your help!

Regards,

Srishti

Report · May 09, 2025

Hi Srishti,

Thank you for your response.

Here is the system info:

Adobe Photoshop Version: 26.6.0 20250414.r.14 f1f3569 arm64

Number of Launches: 2

Operating System: Mac OS 15.4.1

System architecture: Apple M4 Max, DOTPROD, HybridCPU(12:4)

Physical processor count: 16

Built-in memory: 131072 MB

Free memory: 44864 MB

Memory available to Photoshop: 126668 MB

Memory used by Photoshop: 90 %

Crash Handler: Adobe

DCX Version: 8.20.0

SAM SDK Version: 12.1.1

ACP.local Status:

- SDK Version: 5.3.0

- Core Sync Status: Reachable and compatible

- Core Sync Running: 7.4.0.31

- Min Core Sync Required: 4.3.66.28

Live Edit Client SDK Version: v5.0.0-beta.11

Adobe Firefly: Please use any generative AI feature to view the latest version.

OpenColorIO version: 2.4.0

C2PA library version: adobe_c2pa/0.14.2 c2pa-rs/0.43.0

NGL Version: 1.40.0.10

Chalkboard: Disabled.

Chalkboard Doc Create: Disabled.

Precise Color Management for HDR Display: Enabled.

Alias Layers: Disabled.

Highbeam: Enabled.

Touch Bar Property Feedback: Enabled.

Image tile size: 1024K

Image cache levels: 4

Font Preview: Large

HarfBuzz Version: 8.4.0

TextEngine: Unified Text Engine

======= GPU

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OpenCL API stable: True

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GPUForce: 0

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isGPUAllowed: 1

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GPUVendor: APPLE

Apple M4 Max UNKNOWN, APPLE

IsNativeGPUCapable: 1

IsOpenCLGPUCapable: 1

HasSufficientRAM: 1

GPU accessible RAM: 103,079 MB

Required GPU accessible RAM: 1,500 MB

UseGraphicsProcessorChecked: 1

UseOpenCLChecked: 1

Display: 1

Display Bounds: (0, 0) -> (2560, 1440)

Display scale: 1

Main Display

Display Type: WCG

Display: 2

Display Bounds: (2560, 0) -> (4480, 1200)

Display scale: 1

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------- Sniffer output

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Start GetSnifferResult

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/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2025/Adobe Photoshop 2025.app/Contents/MacOS/sniffer -baseTimeMS=73423642 -comment=Photoshop Version: Adobe Photoshop 26.6.0 20250414.r.14 f1f3569 arm64

[106 ms]

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sniffer -baseTimeMS=73423642 -comment=Photoshop Version: Adobe Photoshop 26.6.0 20250414.r.14 f1f3569 arm64

{6 ms}

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Device 0

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Attachment: EMBEDDED

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2

3

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{78 ms}

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Device 0

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VRAM: 103,079 MB

Dedicated System RAM: 0 MB

Shared System RAM: 0 MB

API version: 1.2 (OpenCL 1.2 (Mar 7 2025 21:04:06))

Device version: 1.2 (OpenCL 1.2 )

Vendor name: APPLE

Driver date: UNKNOWN

Driver age: UNKNOWN

Driver version: UNKNOWN

Bandwidth: 7,904 GB / s

Compute score: 59,743.8

Device name string: Apple M4 Max

Device vendor string: Apple

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{103 ms}

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[kStatusNormal, kExitNormal]

[106 ms]

Finish RunAllAPIs

[107 ms]

Finish GetSnifferResult

------- Sniffer output

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GUIDBucket:

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Composite Core Feature Prefs (CompCoreFeaturePrefs): off

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2025/

Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled

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Optional and third party plugins: NONE

Duplicate and Disabled plugins: NONE

Plugins that failed to load: NONE

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CmdN: 1.24.7

UAB: 2.18.0-8

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Loaded at: 5028 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms

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Photoshop Selection Feedback (Prepared) 0.5.0.0 - from the file "Required Folder"

Share Panel (Prepared) 1.0.12.0 - from the file "Required Folder"

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Loaded at: 2684 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms

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Scan time: 0 ms - entries: 31

Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

Report · May 09, 2025

As for your other questions:

Once my Mac Studio arrived (a couple weeks ago), I installed the latest versions for both Photoshop and macOS. Before that, I was working off an old iMac 2017 with older versions.
My secondary monitor is connected via HDMI.

Let me know if you have anymore questions.

Thank you!

Report

Hey, @khoibpham. This has been brought up in the past, and it is more of a macOS issue.

As a quick suggestion, you can dock your panels instead of leaving them afloat, so they resize when the secondary monitor is not recognized.

Please head here to learn more about this: https://adobe.ly/4krCx7q

Thanks!

Sameer K

(Type '@' and type my name to mention me when you reply)

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