Top window jumps to the back when I click off from Photoshop

[ivyonic1029]

1. Photoshop 23.4.2

2. macOS Big Sur 11.6.8

3. I turn off "Open Documents as Tabs" when I work because I need to drag and drop objects between multiple windows very often. Whenever I click off the Photoshop screen, let's say, Finder, to drag a graphic into a PSD window, I figured my current working window is always hidden behind other windows. It's been like that for a few years and it's really really annoying that I'll have to find the window I'm currently working to do drag and drop. 

4. Expected result: my current PSD window should stay at the top / up front and not going behind other PSD windows. Actual result: When I click off the Photoshop screen (even without doing anything), the top window goes to the back. 

[mglush · Accepted solution]

Hi!

I can believe that would be frustrating! Unfortuately, I don't have an answer for that specific problem, but I would like to suggest another way of working that might circumvent what you are dealing with. 

First, under the Window menu, select Arrange>Consolidate All to Tabs. This way all your documents will be in one window.

Then, find the image you want to drag into your main window and with the Move Tool, with nothing selected, click on the image in the Window and drag the image up to the tab of the main window you want to drag it to. Once you are hovering over the tab, the window will change to that main window and you can then drag the image down into the window and drop it.

You can also grab the image in the Layers Panel and drag it up to the tab and into the main window. I will often copy many layers from one file to another using this method.

I realize it doesn't fix the issue you posted about, but I thought since you've beein going through this for a couple of years, you might be interested in another possibility. 

Let us know if that helps or if you have any question.

Michelle

[GrossJulian]

same problem, it is so frustrating. I am current with all updates and keeps happening and has been for over a year.

[jane-e]

same problem...

By @GrossJulian

Does the same answer also work for you?

Jane

[GrossJulian]

no, my windows are always consolidated, it happens with the whole window. click once it sends to the back, click again brings forward.

Mac Studio running sonoma 14.0 photoshop up tp date

[jane-e]

no, my windows are always consolidated,

By @GrossJulian

Apologies. I thought you said you had the same issue. The OP is using floating windows while you are using the tabbed interface. Is your active document also going behind the other document windows when you drag a file from Finder to Photoshop?

Jane

[GrossJulian]

no, it's like - I click photoshop and it's my file, I click the top bar again to just like move the window and it sends it to the back.

[jane-e]

@GrossJulian 

Do you have your Application Frame (Window menu) on or off? Try toggling it to see if that solves your issue.

Jane

[frank_7287]

I've had the same problem for over a year too...very frustrating and time consuming