P: Support for native full-screen mode on macOS

This is one of the many major issues that plagues Photoshop's full screen mode. I deal with this all the time and it sucks. This could very easily be fixed by adding native macOS full screen from 10 years ago, but after a decade of people complaining and asking for it, they refuse to do it. Well you can see firsthand the problems with their stubbornness. The window jumps around when you return to it, toolbars flash in and out, sometimes it won't even go into or exit full screen mode and you just have to force quit the app entirely.

They can fix this so easily by adding macOS native full screen functionality, but they just won't. It makes using Photoshop so annoying.

Sadly I have been posting about this on that thread for 10 years now, and I'm honestly not expecting anything. They said on multiple occasions that they'd "consider it heavily" and "review it" and "consult with the team" over the decade and it just went completely silent. Unless we put some drastic pressure on them, they probably don't care enough to do it, citing superiority of their own full screen mode (which has multiple problems over the native macOS one). I posted this in the other thread, but I'm going to Pixelmator Pro and won't return to Photoshop until they act on their words and finally implement this. I'm not putting up with another decade of this app being the only one in my entire workflow that doesn't have native full screen.

For now, I'm going to switch over to Pixelmator Pro to get my work done in native full screen mode. I don't get weird distracting window gaps showing my bright wallpaper underneath, I can open other small utility apps in windowed mode on my desktop without having to restack their order constantly, and I automatically get a native full screen mode without the toolbars flickering in and out every time I switch between spaces.

At the end of the day though, Photoshop is the most feature rich software. I know switching away from it for now just for something that seems so miniscule like native full screen support seems foolish, but I'm putting my foot down after kicking and screaming with the community for 10 years for the feature. After that long, these easily fixable annoyances shouldn't be here. It's one thing if these were bugs and Adobe needed time to patch them because they're user specific, but this is a universal problem that has an immediate solution provided via Apple API 10 years ago, and it continues to be a problem simply because Adobe is too stubborn to just add it and give users the choice.

Maybe some users do prefer your built in full screen mode Adobe, that's fine. But add the native macOS option, and users can have the choice. They can continue to use the built in Photoshop full screen, or they can click the green full screen bubble to get the native macOS version with all of its benefits.

Inform me when this feature is finally implemented. Until then, goodbye Creative Cloud. I've tried for so many years and I have to put my foot down, or this will never happen.

Go ahead, sort the ideas page by both "Most Votes" and "Most Replies", and this thread is on the first page for both. It's highly requested, has gone through countless threads begging with developers to implement it for years, only to be promised it'll be considered and abandoned over and over again. This is one of the easiest BIG beneficial changes you can quickly put into the next update.

Apple built an API to implement this into existing code a long, long, long time ago. Adobe just refuses to write the few lines of code in. It baffles me that after making other apps in their collection support macOS full screen, a decade later they still don't have it on most of their super popular apps.

Adobe, you HAVE to know the benefits here after putting it into Lightroom. When you make an app macOS native full screen, the app as a whole gains its own dedicated space. Uncompromised, no gaps or distractions, nothing but that app. When you use Photoshop's full screen or even people's workaround of making a new desktop and putting Photoshop there as a separate space, you're still tied to the desktop and Finder. Anything involving non full screen apps, Finder stuff like Quick Look windows, Photoshop's own toolbars, everything overlaps and clashes easily because no matter how stubbornly you say your full screen mode is the same or better, it's just a mostly full window floating on top of the desktop and still attached to everything else from the Finder. What if also I wanted to use Photoshop split app with another app, like a 70-30 split so I can look up references on the side? Can't do that either, unless I want to break another app's full screen separation benefits from the desktop.

Give it macOS native full screen Adobe, just please do it already after 10 years. It's absurd at this point. There's a good reason why Mac users have been consistently begging for it over the decade. You just clinging to your own full window option without giving users a choice between either is just user hostile and ridiculous.

I've been asking for this since my very first MacBook ever, which ran OS X Mavericks. At the time, a couple Adobe programmers joined in the topic and stated they would look into it, and now we're in 2021 into the second year of Apple Silicon Macs and the newest Photoshop continues to not have it. At this point, I'm almost convinced they will NEVER add it.

Stubbornly, Adobe seems to think that their built in full screen mode is a viable replacement. It's not, and it honestly sucks in my opinion. Let me tell you the ways.

Maximize Window: If you maximize the native window to avoid Photoshop's terrible full screen mode, surprise! You always get a sliver of gap at the top because windows are rounded on Mac. With the notch on the new M1 Pro devices running Monterey, it's even more noticeable and annoying.

Any Photoshop Full Screen Option: So okay, Adobe wants us to use their native Photoshop full screen mode. But surprise again! If you're in that mode and swipe over to another Space in Mission Control, the toolbars flicker and persist on the new space. Super annoying.

This can very easily be solved by adding the option to use macOS' native full screen mode. It's been tried and tested and loved since OS X Lion, and even the most garbage and undeveloped apps support this feature. Even several of Adobe's apps do! But not Adobe's most used app, Photoshop.

Stop being stubborn about this Adobe, add this easy-to-add feature. You're going to be getting more and more Mac users who are jumping on the Apple Silicon bandwagon, trying out Photoshop, and getting annoyed. People are already jumping ship to Affinity and Pixelmator, both of which have had native full screen support from the start, along with a one time fee. If you want Photoshop to be worth the insane monthly costs you ask for it, listen to Mac users when they tell you: EVERYONE uses native full screen. It's been 10 years since OS X Lion. 10 years. To add a single API link Apple provides. It's absurd.

Please add support for Photoshop, I need it to take up the whole space when I hit the green maximize button!

It is a none sense that photoshop does not support full screen mode...