Photoshop: Disable "Could not use the move tool because no layers are selected." Message

The update was only bug fixes.

The error alert telling you that you made a mistake in your selection is not a bug.

Sorry, Chris... this was not helpful at all. I didn't ask what the update was about.

In reply to your comment, if I click on the artboard with no layer selected, that is not a mistake in my selection. As I stated in the OP, anyone who uses multiple programs in the Creative Suite knows that in other programs, clicking on a blank area of the artboard deselects the current selection. Therfore, clicking outside of your work area is habitual. It is redundant that Photoshop handles a non-selection click as an "error".

I gotta side with Paul here.

Regardless of whether or not it's a bug, there should be an option to disable the pop-up. It's quite annoying.

JUST PRESS THIS EVERYTHING WILL GO BACK TO NORMAL AGAIN

@Noor Al Yaseen - like a few other incorrect suggestions below, the button you are referring to is the layer filtering toggle switch, which has nothing to do with the issue we are experiencing. Your suggestion is definitely not a fix and barely even counts as a workaround.

worked for me @paul

Worked for me too :) Thx!

Again - using "Layer Filter Options" does NOT fix the problem in the Original Post. The toggle switch in Noor Al Yaseen's comment enables the ability to filter the layers panel in order to search and/or organize layers. When you enable this, all you are doing is blocking the ability for layers to be selected. Not being able to select layers does not fix the problem in the OP.

Feel free to read about what the "Layer Filter Options" feature actually does here:
https://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2018/03/select-and-filter-layer-options-in-photoshop-cc.html

wow.. you was help me
Thanks bro!

Yes, we read them. But this is not a bug. This is just a warning message telling you that you made a mistake (much like "oil level is low" warnings in your car).

wow. double wow.

Chris, your example is way off. This warning is more like "Warning, you are currently not turning because you probably don't need to make a turn".

Yeah, pretty annoying.

Hello Cris,

Thanks for your answer.

I am sorry, but I strongly disagree with you.
When you use illustrator or other ADOBE programs, this behaviour does not happen (and please, don't add this "dis-feature" now in illustrator or I will hit my head with a wall in a loop).

This popup is pointless... I know that when I am clicking outside of the canvas, nothing is going to move (because, precisely, I am outside the canvas). It's like if every time you close the door and then remove your hand from the handle, I tell you with a popup that "your hand can not be used because it is not in the handle".

I bet that 99.9% of the users, which by the way pay their price monthy... do not want this to happen.

What we are requesting is not something aesthetical (like "I don't like the gray shade of the UI", which is purely subjective). We are requesting to add an option to remove something that makes us (the users / your clients / the ones who pay for the software), very frustrated and angry with a product that we, otherwise, LOVE.

We are requesting that you make your product better, in the most simple way, by making the UX better, and by having a less intrussive workflow.

Thanks,

I agree with that. Adobe should focus on people who use their software 8 hours a day 5 days a week. These are the people who pay them. That a lot of small details makes great software. Competition understand this and so people are switching to the affinity and sketch.

I can't believe this is still not configurable. It took 10 years to get CTRL+Z to undo more than one thing (I know there was another shortcut for multi-undo unlike every other app in the world), so maybe in another 10 years they'll realize this is a really awful user experience to show "Warnings" as error modals that disrupt your workflow and require you to manually dismiss. Just change the modal to a toast-style popup.

Horrific UX should be considered a bug in terms of escalation/priority.

@Chris, this is more like your car displays a warning on your windshield obstructing your view and disabling your entire car until you reach up and click the X every time you press a wrong button on your radio.

You will see it with correct autoselect settings. Because you can use layers filter in layers panel or lock layers.

Agree. When I turn on filter layer in Layer panel (In my case filter by color) I'm then unable to use Move Tools "Auto-Select" option. I doesn't select layer and this annoying message pops up.



Windows 10, Photoshop 2017.0.1.

This is related: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/auto_selcet_and_ignore_the_layer_adjustment

Hello you all, my issue has been fixed. I just test it again after 2 years in it works now. My actual version is CC2019 19.1.7

Hello, nopa web. Unfortunately, the button you are referring to is the layer filtering toggle switch, which has nothing to do with the issue we are experiencing.

Hello, nopa web. Thank you for you comment, this bring me back to this thread after 2 year.
Greatings to Paul Zahorosky.

So I just test my issue again in actual version is CC2019 19.1.7.

Made layers labled by colors > Filter them by one of that color > Pick Move tool with "Auto select"

Now it works, without any Error message.
Adobe guys obviously fixed this issue.

Hello, Matej Kriz.

Unfortunately, again, your suggestion is a workaround and not an actual fix. Adobe has not fixed this issue.