Photoshop CC 2019: How do I turn off "Fill new type with placeholder text"?

Thank you this worked!  I found this placeholder very annoying and didn't know how to get rid of it.

I'm glad you could get rid of that annoyance. <g> I personally find that turning it off in Prefs, then using the Type menu to fill with placeholder text when I want it (Paste Lorem Ipsum), is the best of both worlds. As long as I set font size first, I get text that is roughly what I'm planning to enter and can then start auditioning the fonts. But when I don't want that, I don't get it the second I click with the Type tool.

BTW, it's still not great with point text. If you click for point, not click-drag for paragraph, and then choose Paste Lorem Ipsum, it will just run a line of Lorem Ipsum right off the page. <sigh>  It could use some kind of rule that for point type, no more than 5 words, or something like that.

it is another language, its Latin!

You are joking, right? I'll concede it's near-Latin, kind of like near-beer. It's taken out of context —bits and pieces left out or scrambled in word order to stand in for our normal length and spacing of words. Easier than to entirely make up a fake language, and only classical Latin scholars might be scratching their heads in puzzlement.

The first time I encountered it, I tried to dredge up my antique knowledge of Latin, too, but it isn't really intended to be Latin or any other language. And of course, Latin being a "dead" language, the originators could pretty much count on most people not being bothered by how almost real Latin it is.  '-}

Useless support aint ?
Did you get her name ?
Maybe it was one of the kids that is advising Adobe how to change photoshop for smartphones and tablets. Goodluck getting them to pay a subscription to edit selfies when Instagram is so full of childish filters.

You're my soulmate ;)

So, Olaf, in your opinion, the Lorem Ipsum feature would be more valuable if it filled the entire text box, right?  Do others agree?

This feature was added in response to user feedback.  Perhaps we got a couple details wrong, but if you share with us what isn't right and how it impacts you, we can use those stories to justify making the changes you'd like.  The trick is to make the changes positive for the largest number of users -- what is a feature to one person, might be a pain in the neck or bug to another.

Thanks,
David

Why don't you have both a checkbox toggle FOR Lorem Ipsum, and a Run Again (it is a script, right?) button. The reason for this is if I draw a text box, it immediately fills with whatever is active, very often in PS that's the default since I set text in PS, but not a lot and not often, unlike ID. Then I have too much or too little text there depending upon my new choice of typeface and size. Being able to run it again after I think I've settled on the size would automatically either expand the text to fill the box, OR, equally important, delete the overset text.

Obviously, only some of us use Lorem Ipsum at all—ever. The majority of PS users probably don't, and this "hidden" default isn't terribly useful for either them or us. Personally, I prefer to have nothing in the box at all until I choose to enter Lorem Ipsum, (which is why I choose Paste Lorem Ipsum from the menu) and the toggle plus Run Again button would definitely suit because people wouldn't have to know where everything that controls it is.

Or maybe even better, have these two features in the Properties panel with Type Layer Properties, and when you select the Type Tool, it opens this panel the way it does when you add an Adjustment layer??? Lots of room then to accommodate different needs.

Hi David, sorry for the late answer. I just stumbled over your response by chance just now. You asked: "So, Olaf, in your opinion, the Lorem Ipsum feature would be more valuable if it filled the entire text box, right?"

Yes, definitely! Because the fill is there to visualize the text box as a placeholder in a design-concept. And if only two or three lines of this text box are filled with the Lorem-ipsum-auto-text it does not visualize or help anything or anyone. If you want to fill the text-box you still have to got into the menu type > paste place holder text (translated from German; I don't have an English version installed right now) multiple times to fill the box.
Therefore, it would be great if the Lorem Ipsum auto-fill for new text-layers would fill the whole frame and not just a couple of lines.

Hey Ronald,

What you're seeing is placeholder text that was recently added to the application.  It's not a bug.  If you type anything, it will replace this text.

Thanks,
David

Go to Preferences > Type... and uncheck "Fill new type layers with placeholder text"

Late to the party here, as I just upgraded to to PS 2020 and my first experience with Lorem Ipsum.  I have to use text to watermark all of my work and didn't know what this was.  You are exactly on point....when new features are rolled out, you're not even given a head's up, how to use it, or how to opt out.  It's just there & you have no choice but to waste time on forums all day trying to figure out out to at the very least how to switch it off.  This one has me furious, as I have wasted a lot of time, with no results & missed my dead line on uploaded my photos.  NICE GOING PHOTOSHOP....THANKS FOR THE ASS CHEWING I GOT AND MY JOB WAS THREATENED MESSING AROUND TRYING TO FIX YOUR STUPID PROBLEM FORCED TO THE PEOPLE WHO PAY TO USE YOUR SOFTWARE!   YOU ARE GOLDEN!