Problem with keyboard shortcuts - randomly stop working.

I had this same problem. The solution? Weirdly enough it was Telegram messing with my shorcuts- I closed telegram and they began to work again.

Hope this helps someone. :]

I am having the same issue. Found that when I have my brushes panel floating in my window ( which I LOVE to have because I use it all the time for graphics ) I cannot use my keyboard shortcuts to change between my tools and sizing. It is SOOO frustrating! And a waste of my time! So it's either go to the tools by hand, ( no keyboard shortcuts )  or open the brushes panel every single time I am changing something. And that is ALL the time! I thought an update was supposed to be a good thing?? I am so frustrated! such an annoying glitch in this version!!!

I have this problem for a long time, I even changed the keyboard, I tried all your solutions and nothing worked. It's very frustrating at any time the shortcuts stop working, I had the solution to click out of photoshop and when I came back it worked again, but it was really bad for the workflow. After several attempts I found the problem that causes this. this is caused by view in "consolidate all tabs", resolves and no longer happens in Windows/Arrange/Float in Window. I'm on macOS Ventura with the latest Photoshop 24.0. It would be nice if Adobe fixed this, thanks

i'm having this issue too, when i want to switch from one tool to another

for example, i hit B for brush, then i want to select so i hit W for wand

it'll choose want then jump back to brush.  if i want to erase i hit E, it'll jump to erase for like a second then back to brush, I have no other applications open that use the same shortcuts as Photoshop as no other applications have photoshop shortcuts that i use in them

the only other applications i usually have open are either my media player or music player so that i'm not working in a deafening silence.

is there actually a fix for this or is Adobe just gonna give the same copy-paste useless solution to the issue.  We should have Adobe go back to the one-time purchase method and just have it updated instead of this monthly crap.  Photshop was actually useful and reliable before the monthy subscription method, now there's nothing but problems

Found the answer to this that works for me on the subreddit. Try pressing escape next time it happens. "It can happen when you press Alt because it highlights the menus and waits for you to press the corresponding letter (like F for the File menu)."

This is happening for me as well. I haven't found a pattern of which tools tend to cause it, but for example, I was just sketching with a hard round brush. I hit ctrl-T to transform, hit enter to accept my transform, and after that all shortcuts stopped working. Actually, that's not entirely true. The following keys did the following actions:

* ctrl-t (which should do a transform again) rotates the layer

* [ and ] will only raise and lower pixel size by a few steps, then won't go further

* l, which should grab my lasso tool, activates the move tool

It's weird. This happens to me at least once a day. Restarting photoshop seems to fix it, but it's really annoying to hit the issue, especially if you're in flow.

It's been an issue with my system for a little while now. Not sure when it started, I feel like it's been 6 months. The keybaord short cuts in Photoshop (I updated all adobe software on my system to newest versions) work for a while and then they stop. I'm running Catalina Macbook 2018 (10.15.7). I'm wondering if upgrading to Big Sur will fix it? My job's IT says we shouldn't upgrade yet. 

NONE of these have helped. Sometimes they would just stop working. And then all of a sudden they would come back for no apparent reason. WTF Adobe??? This doesn't happen on any other programs in Windows 10!

FWIW - I have occasional shortcut issues, and I've narrowed it down to language and region settings as the most likely cause.

I have English Windows and English Photoshop, but Norwegian keyboard layout. Windows normally handles this (there are separate settings for language and keyboard) - but sometimes I see Windows reverting to English keyboard for whatever reason. This mixes all shortcuts up.

But it also happens sometimes that the shortcuts in Photoshop simply stop responding - without the Windows settings changed. I do suspect it's the same underlying issue, because I've never heard of any of our UK or US residents having these problems. For me, however, it's been consistent on every system I have laid my hands on (quite a lot) forever. The only thing they all have in common is this English app/OS - Norwegian keyboard configuration.

Strangely, in the latter case hitting ctrl-alt-shift-K always kickstarts everything back into normal operation. This opens the shortcuts dialog. That particular shortcut always works.

Hi

What version of Photoshop and OS do you have, have you tried resetting the Tools

If that doesn't help try resetting Photoshop preferences