Spot Healing Brush issue since latest update...

I had the same issue in Photoshop 2023. This helped for me:

In Photoshop go to Preferences / Performance. Then enable "Use Graphics Processor". For the setting to take effect you have to restart Photoshop (it took me a long time to figure out you have to restart Photoshop, as it was only indicated in a small short popup text). Hope this helps for you or others!

after applying 

in ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop 2020 Settings to ~/Library/Preferences/old-Adobe Photoshop 2020 Settings

that partially fixed the issue. The edit black brush lines dissapear BUT not the first one applied in a series.

You are most likely running an iOS operating system that is unsupported. If you are running an iOS Op system that required a patch Photoshop will run terrible, the computer will drag, struggle to stay connected to the internet and your kernel task cpu usage will be through the roof. Go back down to the last iOS Op system that gave you no issues, download an older version of PS and it will work perfectly.

Weapon6

Hi Adobe,

Same issue where the spot healing brush does not finish automatically and just leaves the black train on the screen.  It seems to be a screen refresh issue since any action that forces a screen refresh will complete the spot healing brush action. OS is Catalina 10.15.7 - PS 22.4.1

Renaming the preferences file did not help not resetting the tools.

Does work on some photos but not everywhere in the same photo.

This was working fine on my Mac until the latest PS 2021 update.

Thank you for your attention

Eric

I have the same problem.

I've tried on two different brand-new computers with 64BG RAM and latest everything, Windows 10.

Resetting the tool didn't help in my case.

Interestingly, this is happening on some PSD files, and not on others (both are open simultaneously).

Please help, Adobe.

Hello everyone,

I'm fighting for days with this problem..

This is ultra-frustrating.

Waste of time and and a bit dangerous to manipulate our files with such hazardous tool.

Is there a way to contact Adobe efficiently ? Gosh.

Same issue with me.  I've tried all of the above "fixes," including Uninstalling and re-installing PS.  
My computer is not the issue - everything is new, up-to-date, and industry standard.  
This is ridiculous.  Just as someone said above, Adobe likes to release patches, new versions, and constantly screwing up the wheel that was once perfect and flawless.  Unbelievable, for a company who already runs a monopoly on the industry.

I am having the same issue suddenly, on Windows 10. Have tried all suggestions herein and no joy. Adobe customer service's answer to everything is to reset the preferences and it almost never solves a problem; it only creates more wasted time for us to have to re-build our preferences. I'm so sick of this. Every darned day it's something gone wrong with one Adobe app or another. 

Hi Richard

I'm having similar problem. Thie error applies to Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush. With HB, I'm having same thing as You - after I use brush, a black trail remains untlil I touch the picture somewere else, then the trail disappears and the healing effect shows. With Spot HB, when I sample a spot and then apply healing, the coursor cross stays "locked" in the exact spot, where I was sampling and there is no healing effect to where I put it. Then, when I make another sample, the firs one appears to work. HOWEVER, this problem happens when I'm using Wacom Tablet, or tablets, as I tried it with two different devises. When I'm using mous, both tools work just fine. 

For your information, I'm using Mac OS Mojave and PS CS 6. 

Hi this may be due to low system specfications or low vga memory....regards