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W4tsup
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April 12, 2023
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When clicking the title bar, window instantly goes into resize mode.

  • April 12, 2023
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While photoshop is open, clicking on the title bar will instantly toggle the maximize/resize button while using a tablet pen. I am using windows 11.

 

This is reproducable by maximizing the window, creating a new canvas, clicking anywhere on the canvas with your pen, then clicking on the title bar. The window will instantly go into an unmaximized state.

 

If you don't open a canvas first, it will also pop around when clicking the title bar, and I've seen it happen by clicking on other windows, then clicking back into photoshop by tapping the title bar once.

 

I do not experience double click events or have the pen set to double click with any other action.

    Correct answer MVelazquez

    For anyone who comes upon this:  I am running Windows 11 and the solution I came upon was turning off "Snap Windows" In System > Multitasking.  You can also jst search "Multitasking setting" in windows search bar as well and i shoudl take you there.

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    dougd41658981
    Participant
    January 2, 2025

    It happens on my MacBook Air M1 Sequoia 15.2. Really, really annoying.

     

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    AlekeCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    January 2, 2025

    Hey @dougd41658981!

    Can you give me a bit more info? Are you working with a tablet pen or a mouse? Also, what version of Photoshop are you running? And just wondering—does the Snap Windows setting mentioned above help at all?

    Thanks a bunch!

    Alek

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    MVelazquezCorrect answer
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    November 20, 2024

    For anyone who comes upon this:  I am running Windows 11 and the solution I came upon was turning off "Snap Windows" In System > Multitasking.  You can also jst search "Multitasking setting" in windows search bar as well and i shoudl take you there.

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      ralph.arvesen
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      December 24, 2024

      Thank you! I was trying different things to solve this and did not come up with anything, but your suggestions fixes the problem. Hopefully Adobe fixes the problem at some point, since snap-windows would be nice to turn back on. Thanks again, wanted to let you know I appreciate it.

      fazzaan
      fazzaan
      Participant
      March 21, 2024

      So this actually happens with a mouse too, and I don't have a touchscreen or tablet or any other input types.

      I do sometimes connect a tablet to my laptop as an external screen, which activates touch features of Win 11.

      However, those features do not get enabled until I attach the tablet after bootup - and I haven't done so during this boot.

      No other windows of other apps are experiencing this effect. Additionally, no other apps show this behaviour with the mouse even when the tablet screen is attached.

      It seems to me to be a bug in Photoshop itself.

      And it is EXTREMELY annoying, because I habitually click the titlebar to reactivate any window of any app, to ensure that I don't click any other active elements. I do see that Photoshop ignores first-click in the rest of the app window, but the titlebar does not follow this behaviour - including the Menu (File Edit Image etc).

      (I don't have other Adobe apps to test it with.)

       

      I'm using Photoshop 2024, and I believe this is new behaviour. I've been using Photoshop for at least 12 years, and have used previous versions on Windows 11 too.

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        W4tsupAuthor
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        March 21, 2024

        Yeah, nothing I've tried has fixed this and no windows updated have solved it either. I'm not sure if it's just a photoshop bug at this point, but it's annoying to say the least.

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          W4tsupAuthor
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          April 12, 2023

          I've done some more research on this and it seems to be a feature for windows 11 and pens, if you touch the title bar with a mouse nothing happens, if you touch any title bar with a pen it instantly goes into move mode even with no pen movement. Any tiny movement any this will unmaximize the window. Extremely annoying, but not really anything adobe can do about it.

           

          I've reported it on the windows feedback hub.

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          ralph.arvesen
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          December 24, 2024

          I don't know the details, but I feel like this is an Adobe problem, not  Windows. I don't have this issue with any other apps / windows running on Windows 11 (desktop, not using pen).

           

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            avrilc46314294
            Participant
            September 16, 2025

            Also found the same, except clicking anywhere within the user interface of Illustrator (29.8.1) will background Illustrator and take you back to the windows desktop - very distruptive. Turning off the windows setting for snapping windows seems to fix this - but this is the only app that was affected.

            CShubert
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            CShubertCommunity Manager
            Community Manager
            April 12, 2023

            Hi @W4tsup the normal maximise function will happen if you double click the top header bar, so if a single click is doing this it is possible your tablet is set in a way that Ps is thinking you are double clicking?

             

            If you use a normal mouse or trackpad, what happens if you single click, does the same thing happen?

             

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