Hand tool (spacebar) isn't working [2016]

[MaritvanHelden]

Hello,

I got creative cloud with Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign etc.

But my hand tool shortcut with the spacebar isn't working

the hand does appear but when I try to move it gives no reaction

With the shortcut H it works.

I have already reinstalled everything, reset all my tools and reset my warning dialogs.

With my drawing tablet the shortcut also did work, until this morning. It stopped working.

Hope that someone got the answer for me this is pretty annoying I use the hand tool a lot.

Kind regards

[simos4221943]

I have been suffering with this issue on my ThinkPad: with the spacebar, the hand appears, but I can't pan the view. On my work HP the problem doesn't occur. After now reading about the "press V or A" workaround, I started trying out other things and found another workaround that's maybe better: just tap Alt. That is: press spacebar; hand appears; while keeping spacebar down, tap Alt once; now panning works.

I wish they could just fix this...

[foadm18984184]

When You hold Spacebar, just hit one time the (Alt) Key it's next to your spacebar, and the hand-tool works fine.

Also the Issue is from your laptop Touch Pad Setting, that makes it not working.

Love you all!

Fawad Ahadi

[helen241458701zph]

I can't beleive this is still a problem. I am also having this issue and I've tried all the tips since 2016 on this forum and nothing has worked. I'm working on Adobe CC on a Macbook Pro, MacOS Monterey. Can't get spacebar to pan as hand tool. 

[imaging2a79825711]

I could not agree more, it is absolutley incredible, that this is still a problem all these years later. 

I cannot belive they have a "correct answer"!! What a joke.

I don't have 1password or a Wacom tablet.. NONE of the supposed "answers" here work for me, or work for anyone in the department we work in. It is widespread and should be fixed.

The only thing that works for me is sometimes after a complete restart, not quitting and re-launching, but a restart, will temporarily fix this issue.

[S28028881wz07]

Had problem for many years. Add Fn button and it works!

[Kaci32292255vdo6]

Working on a company M1 Mac and this just started happening for me out of the blue. I force quit the cyber security app thats installed as a standard on all company computers and the spacebar shortcut started working again. This is the wildest fix I've come across yet. Gonna be scratching my head about this one for a while.. haha