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November 4, 2019
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P: Support for grids, guides and ruler tool for Photoshop for iPad

  • November 4, 2019
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We need to have the grids and the guides in Photoshop for iPad ! I can’t work without them. Thank you !

145 replies

Participant
April 22, 2025

I am trying to teach a graphics class on iPads.  It is very difficult to teach lessons I have used in the past on an iPad because of missing features.  iPad and Adobe is logical, but the missing features limits productivity for my hungry learners.  Rulers are important in production. 

Participant
April 1, 2025

Please add them. It's frustrating jumping between photoshop and illustrator on the iPad.

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jane-e
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March 25, 2025

@eveangelica 

 

Adobe has marked this thread as "Under Review". Be sure to click the upvote button at the very top of the page. These features are essential!

 

 

 

Jane

 

Participant
March 25, 2025

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo? Yes? No? Maybe?

Participant
February 25, 2025

This is a great idea and would help me a lot. I am trying as much as possible to transfer my workflow to iPad photoshop for the portability. This would help immensely.

Participant
February 3, 2025

Painting student here who would really appreciate being able to grid a photo on the iPad. 

Participant
February 3, 2025

At least do it like in Adobe Express, where I can get snap lines, and use those to center or match other items in the image. 

Unfortunately, Express lacks features such as free transform for an image or text  (as opposed to an element), so I have to go into PS for those things. It's already annoying to have to switch apps, but to then each app be missing some key features all of us use every day... 

Not to mention that it is super hard to even find out that these things are not included, because Adobe instructional themselves often take me to information about the desktop version, ignoring the fact that I have iOS or iPad in my search string, or that I am looking within the iPad manual. It's been taking me hours to poke around and find out that certain basic features are just not there. I even have had the full Creative suite on my desktop, and I have switched back and forth, but that also interrupts what are simple daily workflows -- and I prefer to work on the iPad since I like the lighter hardware and the ability to use the pencil on screen rather than trying to control things with my mouse. It's not that I pay for the iPad versions because they are cheaper... Regardless, that some advanced funcitonality is missing on iPad is fine. Free transform, grids and rulers, snapping (and being able to decide where to snap something to) should be included right along cropping and resizing on every single graphics program. 

To top it off, you *have* added generative AI to the iPad versions of these apps, a feature that is superfluous and that could be something we go to a different program for, as well as something that is taxing your servers.... But we can't get basic rulers? Come on!

Participant
January 28, 2025

Add grids and rulers, it's been 5 years.

Participant
December 6, 2024

Please and grids and guides and hopefully ruler too it's so hard to set up files for print without them.

Participant
December 3, 2024

Why [cursing removed] does this not exist already?