Why remove and discontinue support for Device Preview in CC 2018?

Freaking hell Adobe. You remove a great feature that I used constantly while adding 100 bugs.

Someone needs to make a complete suite of competing products and I'll switch in a heartbeat. This is getting so annoying. I feel like Adobe doesn't actually care about their users anymore. They just do whatever they want and know they can get away with it.

are you UX / UI designer? I think it's time to give up Photoshop.

I am upset by the irrational and irresponsible decision of Adobe.

The recent upgrade feeling the XD emphasis.

Photoshop is stable and skilled, but XD is unstable and lacks the necessary functionality.

With this opportunity, we have to give up windows OS and Adobe Photoshop. Depending on the trend of the times,  we need to change  to sketch and Invision plugin.

windows 환경에서 UX/UI를 디자인하면서 phoshop 만큼 뛰어난 도구는 없지만, XD를 출시하고 photoshop과 중복되는 기능은 제거하는 분위기를 느낄 수 있습니다. 하지만 이런 결정은 XD가 완벽해진 뒤 해야되는데 현재까지는 Wireframe 검증하는 도구 이상으로 필요성을 느낄 수 없습니다. 1~2년 사이에 UX 디자인을 넘어  UI를 시각화하고 interaction을 체크하기 위해 sketch와 Invision 함께 사용하는 construction of infrastructure(환경) 확대되고 있습니다.

이런점을 고민해서 Adobe 방향은 앞으로도 photoshop 사용한 UI 시각화는 어렵게 될 것이라 판단됩니다.

더 늦기전에는 각자 작업환경과 프로그램을 전향해야됨 느끼께됩니다.

Wow, I must say I'm surprised by this decision as well. Many web/app designers are still using Photoshop and device preview was very useful. I know Adobe wants people to use XD, but it can't even export a JPEG yet and has no manual guides (only smart guides). XD is promising, but in my opinion it's not quite ready (yet) for professional production work. Plus, for designers that need to do a lot of photo/retouching work, XD isn't going to be as good as Photoshop, so this move just doesn't make sense to me either.

I can't fathom nor explain why adobe would choose to remove device preview from photoshop I was also very frustrated by that careless decision, but I have a current work around that may help.

I am currently using the invisionapp plugin for photoshop to preview and prototype mobile app designs, found here: Turn your Photoshop designs into interactive prototypes

Adobe has a product called Adobe XD and it seems they are pushing those of us who use photoshop for app design to use that. However there is a big problem with it since its beta release, it does not support fixed headers and footers. Fixed elements in scrolling artboards (header, nav bar, etc.) – Adobe XD Feedback : Feature Requests & Bugs   and there hasn't been an official response as far as I have seen as to when they have a fix for that. If you haven't given Adobe XD a look I would suggest it but know it's still a beta product in my book.

So until the day comes when adobe finishes making Adobe XD to make it a real contender; Might I suggest giving invisionapp a try.

HI All

I am a developer from China. And I created an (Plugin + App) which exactly like what Device Preview does.

It's name PsMirror

It contains a ps plugin and app. It works just like Device Preview, but more than that.

It supporst win/mac,  wifi + usb,  even more, support android devices.

It's developed first in 2016, and just for designers of Chinese...

As CC2018 remove Device Preview now, I think it's time to internationalize my product for you now.

Here is the sample video to see

Because it's better to download pirate version at piratebay.org. And that's what Im going to do (download 2017 older version to have Adobe Preview back). It's free and they dont tell you to update just to snatch stuff you would be aware too late to avoid.

Same problem for me and I found Skala Preview who solved it for now!!

Its normal Adobe Photoshop deployment Adobe management does not care they disrupt their customers work-flows.  Adobe removes working version of Photoshop by default when you install a new version of Photoshop that are not fully backwards compatible with old versions of Photoshop. I do not believe its Adobe Programmers that do this it has to be Adobe upper management policies they do not live in our world.  Be sure to use Adobe installers advance Install options to keep old versions od Adopbe Products installed.  Adobe needs better management.

Reported bugs go unfixed release after release and new bugs are added an knowingly released.

What's changed

• The Brush panel in earlier releases of Photoshop is now called Brush Settings.
• The Brush Presets panel in earlier versions of Photoshop has been streamlined and renamed as Brushes panel. For more information, see Streamlined brush preset management.
• Device Preview is no longer available in this release. Additionally, the Preview CC iOS app is no longer available for download or actively maintained as of October 2017. If you have a previously-downloaded version of Preview CC on your iOS device, you can continue to use it on an as-is basis with earlier versions of Photoshop.
• Photoshop no longer prompts you to import assets into Creative Cloud Libraries while opening documents. You can still automatically import all assets from an open document using the Create New Library From Document command in the Libraries panel.
• The Preferences > General > Show Recent Files Workspace When Opening A File setting is no longer available.
• On macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and newer, Photoshop uses a dark title bar for floating document windows when UI brightness is set to one of the two dark settings.
• (MacBook Pro) Touch Bar-related changes:
  • The Enable History Scrubbing In The Touch Bar preference is no longer available. To suppress history scrubbing, simply remove the corresponding button from the Touch Bar layout.
  • You can now control brush smoothing using the Touch Bar. Add this control to the Touch Bar using the Customize Touch Bar user interface.
• PNG files created using the Save As option are now compressed better. Also, the options for saving images as PNG assets have changed for better user experience:

Known issues

• Photoshop sometimes stops responding when you're using the Refine Edge brush in the Select & Mask workspace. As a workaround to this issue, disable Preferences > Performance > Advance Settings > Use OpenCL.
• (Only on MacBooks with a single GPU and running OS X 10.11) While using the Refine Edge brush, you may notice heavy degradation along the edges of the image areas you're retouching. As a workaround to this issue, either upgrade to the latest version of macOS or turn off OpenCL (deselect Preferences > Performance > Advanced Settings > Use OpenCL).
• Photoshop sometimes stops responding when you choose 3D > Spherical Panorama > Import Panorama to import a panoramic image. As a workaround for this issue, either install the application in the default location in your system or remove any localized character from the installation path.
• Occasional challenges while using the Curvature Pen tool:
  • Path operations might behave unexpectedly. As a workaround, use the regular Pen tool.
  • Selecting multiple points using the Ctrl+Shift-click keyboard combination may not work at times. As a workaround, Shift-click with the Direct Selection tool to select multiple points or use the regular Pen tool.
• Usability: The path transform bounding box may be hard to see at times against dark document backgrounds. As a workaround, for shapes, select only the shape layer without the path. The transform bounding box should now be clearly visible.