Text Field selection issues in Phototshop - a lack of choice?

[runninghead_design]

Dear ChatGPT: Tell me how to change the text select behaviour when clicking in fields in Photoshop. Currently, when I click on any field in the Photoshop interface all the text in that field is selected, which makes editing any part of the text in that field difficult because I have to click again to select only the text I want to change.

Answer: This is a common annoyance in Photoshop’s interface — by default, clicking into a numeric/text input field (like opacity, font size, tracking, etc.) auto-selects all text in that field.

To stop Photoshop from auto-selecting all the text when you click into a field, follow these steps...

Needless to say, the steps advised do not work, in fact there seems no way to stop this "common annoyance" at all. Is this another case of Adobe just dropping the ball and removing choice "for simplicity's sake"?
Anyone know how to fix this?

[pixxxelschubser]

Hi

I cannot reproduce this behaviour on my Windows computer. 

A click places the cursor in an input field. A double-click selects everything in the input field.

[ExUSA]

Windows does this in general, but not Mac. One of the biggest annoyances I have with Windows.

[pixxxelschubser]

As I said, I don't have this problem under Windows. (Or you're talking about a different problem).

[ExUSA]

I use both Windows and Mac daily (I'm typing this on Windows) and on this computer, that's how most text fields behave. Click and the entire field is highlighted. Are you the OP? Apparently that person has the problem.

[runninghead_design]

I'm the OP. As the AI suggested, this has been an annoyance for many in Adobe apps for a while now.
The text selection behaviours vary wildly between platforms, versions and apps, with no easy way to set a preference.
On my system alone AI differs from PS in the way some fields (but not all) work in this regard.
I suspect the fact this is not as easy an issue to put into words as some others may account for the lack of traffic on this topic, but the issue persists.
Anyone with a solution, please chip in. 🙂

[ExUSA]

AFAIK there is not a way on any computer or mobile platform to change how text fields behave.