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Application Window 'resizes to bottom-half of screen' after waking Mac from sleep.

There is an issue with Adobe apps while using Mac M1 with an external monitor. When put in sleep, the windows and palettes move to the bottom half of the screen.

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this is an issue with specifically Adobe apps(illustrator, photoshop and indesign at least):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/window-and-panels-moving-when-mac-goes-to-sle...

please, Adobe support, address this issue.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    InDesign 19.1
    Yep, still an issue with the Mac Studio and studio display. When waking from sleep, InDesign has moved halfway down the screen and the pallets have moved across. Do Adobe not test software anymore? Sort it!

  • Eddie Deighton commented  ·   ·  Report

    Updated to 19.1 and the issue is STILL occurring. InDesign team - do you not communicate with the other app teams? The Illustrator team have resolved this problem now - try talking to each other.

  • F vd Geest commented  ·   ·  Report

    Still in the latest pre-release:
    The problem is this: when you have a MacBook and an external display, or when you use a two display setup and have panels in the secondary screen:
    When you turn in sleep mode OR the screens are blanked after a while and the secondary display dims a fraction earlier than the main display, InDesign sees one display for a second and moves all panels to the primary display.
    Now when the displays get activated again, woke up from sleep or come out of their own power sleep, InDesign fails to return the panels back to the second display again.
    Terrible!

  • Philip Byrne commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is still happening with InDesign 2024 (v.19) and macOS 14.1 Sonoma. 17 months on and still no sign of a fix or even an acknowledgement from Adobe that the issue is happening.

    Why are we paying full price for software that does not work properly?

  • sgrhill commented  ·   ·  Report

    When I fire up InDesign the application window appears at the aspected (normal) position on my screen. When I’m away for a while the system goes to sleep and the screen turns black. No problem so far.

    But every time when I wake the system the ID-application window has dropped half way the screen. So I reposition the ID-screen, but after another system nap gravity does the same job again to this window. 😉
    This happens when the option Application frame is on or off.

    This is only noticable within InDesign. Illustrator and Photoshop work fine.

    Please address this issue!

    Mac Studio M1 Max - LG Ultrafine 5K - macOS Ventura 13.5.1 - Adobe CC 2024

  • Eddie Deighton commented  ·   ·  Report

    This problem appears to have been fixed in Illustrator and Photoshop - when is the fix due for Indesign?

  • sabra commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am so sick of this! When using Indesign, my palettes get jammed into the sides of the screen, are moved partially off screen, are moved to a completely different screen or any combination of these after monitor wakes from sleep. The title bar is always the part off screen such that it can't be grabbed to move the palette back on to the page.
    This program is too expensive for BS like this!
    Macbook Pro: M1 Pro/Ventura 13.0
    Indesign 18.4

  • Owen Clay commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just to add another voice.

    I'm using a Mac Studio (M1 Max, Ventura 13.1) with a Philips 329P1H UHD monitor connected via USB-C > DisplayPort.

    This seems to happen exclusively with Adobe apps for me (browsers, MS Office all seem fine).

  • Damien Girard commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is still an issue after many months on both a Mac Studio M1 and MacBook Pro m1. What an annoying and incoveniet issue. For what Adobe subscriptions cost this is unacceptable customer service

  • Philip Byrne commented  ·   ·  Report

    Update: this is still happening with the CC 2023 release and macOS Ventura.

    Despite promises that this critical issue was being addressed by Adobe engineers, nothing has improved.

  • Philip Byrne commented  ·   ·  Report

    It doesn't only happen after sleep for me. Just powering the external monitor off and back on will cause the windows to reposition. On my Dell monitor, they always reposition down to 394px (of 1,440) if they were positioned above this point to begin with.

    The issue started with Illustrator and Photoshop for me but spread to InDesign and then to third-party apps, including macOS Monterey apps. These windows don't resize but third-party and macOS windows, which all reposition to the same point, do resize.

    After extensive troubleshooting with Apple and then Adobe (which provided proof positive that installing Illustrator caused the issue), it has apparently been escalated to Adobe's engineers and I've been informed by Support that they are working on a fix.

  • Monty Lewis commented  ·   ·  Report

    This happens to me on a Mac Studio, BenQ monitor, Monterey 12.5.1

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