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Nov 10, 2026 6:46 AM UTC
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Photoshop 27.11.1 lags when moving layers and editing text after macOS 27.2.1 update (Apple M4)

System

  • Mac: Apple M4, 16GB RAM
  • macOS: 27.2.1 (Golden Gate)
  • Photoshop: 27.11.1

Issue
After updating to macOS 27.2.1, Photoshop became very laggy when moving image layers and editing text layers. The same files worked fine before the macOS update.

Details

  • New blank documents work normally.
  • Files with high-resolution photos (about 5568 × 3712px, document size around 580MB) lag heavily.
  • I’ve worked on even larger files (long product detail pages) before the update without this problem.

What I’ve tried (none of these helped)

  • Restarting the Mac
  • Updating Photoshop from 27.11.0 to 27.11.1
  • Turning off “Use Graphics Processor”
  • Turning off Application Frame
  • Lowering memory usage from 69% to about 60%
  • Reducing the size of the photos in the file

Memory pressure is green in Activity Monitor, so it doesn’t seem to be a RAM issue.

Update: Rolled back to Photoshop 27.9.1, but the lag is the same. It seems to be caused by the macOS 27.2.1 update, not the Photoshop version.