I don't know who greenlighted this UX and pushed it out unannounced, no warning, no guidance on where things are...

Seriously I can't wait to retire and never have to use Adobe software again.

I mean, fix the bugs and make the basics more functional before pushing out an interface that is just going to **** people off.

terrible new GUI, please look into how users can fidnwhat they want. And worst of all you guys just swapped everything over! people are used to finding things on the right side of the GUI and the UI developers went and moved it to the left! really? then moved the left to the right.

Tool bar is small and needs more clicks to get to the actual tool. Need unnecessary editing.

Every "new" interface is worse than the one before it. I would kill for the Acrobat Pro X or XI interface. Just more ADHD obsessed Millennials and GenZs looking for something to do to justify their miserably excuse for existence.

I completely agree with this comment. The new user interface is bad while the old one was adequately functional.

Totally! They literally added 3 mouse clicks for several tasks that used to be 1 shortcut.

I just did a new Adobe Acrobat Pro install on a computer and there was a pop-up option to not use the new user interface, but to revert to the "old one".
You can also switch to the new (current) interface if you'd like.
I prefer the old one, as I'm used to it, and it works just fine.

Thank god I don't have to use Reader on my main machine and still use trusty old Acrobat Pro XI. Solid UI and none of the eye bleeding white monstrosity that I was presented with today.

And for everyone blaming the programmers, it is not their fault, it is the UI designers and Product Managers that let this **** get through. Probably an exec or two in there who saw some other app that looked as ****** and this and said, I bet our users would like this too.

The only thing that will make this change back to something usable is for them to lose market share. Go download and use any of the other tools that don't look like this.

What is the point of having a App that is so not user friendly, that you need to go to University to learn how to use it. Does free classes on how to use it come with it? I’m sick and tired of having to google it up, every single little thing I’m trying to do, what a fffffff hassle, I’m so frustrated and ****** of , I don’t even get my school projects done, right now Adobe = Super lame. And why this “Loren Ipsum” text keeps popping up every time, can’t even touch the track pad and the stupid thing pops up again wtf, so stupid Loren Ipsum.

marie gignac: "Uninstall the ****** version..."

Thanks, but some of us work in an enterprise environment and are subject to the mandates of our corporate overlords. Eliciting change at the source is our only hope to rid humanity of this injustice.

To everyone hating the new interface and knowing how much Adobe doesn't care about its user and feedback, the 2020 version is still available to download online. Uninstall the ****** version and install the old; works like a charm! 🥂

Very Fine, that we have possibility to disable the new version.
But will this feature keep being possible?
This new "All Tools" is taking space from the actual use of the program..
The Remember tool location is not working. for this new look.
so the tool bar is taking up space, when Acrobat is used inside SAP. So it's not possible to see the invoice...

This new UI is so bad it promotes looking for a different product. My partner raves about Blue Beam. Maybe I'll try that out.

this new UI is so frustrating. I can't even figure out how to put a date on a signed document! Why isn't that feature with the sign document tab?????? idiotic!

Why something new? I am becoming more and more convinced every day that the programmers or whoever is responsible for introducing such useless changes at Adobe or at other software developing companies (because this hopeless tendency can be seen in a multitude of products) must feel the urge to demonstrate that their jobs are needed - what else could be a reason for insisting on altering proven solutions to which users have become accustomed?

Why oh why must we always do or make something new, even if it is taking a step back? In the case of the new Acrobat interface it more like a hundred or more steps back. Why change what works well? Because it's trendy to change something, change for the sake of change not matter what? Because we want to change without thinking?
The new interface is just the result of some random bad ideas put into an interface that doesn't work, it's confusing and no good.

I guess the best thing about this new failed interface is that we now can switch back to the old interface.

Agreed! This is terrible and making work harder. And it wouldn't be so bad if I could customize the toolbars more but the options I want to remove are greyed out and the options I want to add, aren't even options. I hate that I can't move the floating quick menu and lock it in one of the other toolbars. I hate the side menu - it's incredibly inconvenient and the opposite of intuitive.

The current interface is possibly the worst app interface I've ever tried to use. I've been using Acrobat for well over 20 years and now its barely functional. I'm glad to see I'm not the only person wondering how long till someone builds useable applications so we can dump this pile of garbage.

Yes, and for all the many more years it will take Adobe NOT to fix this, but instead go out of business, you can read the below linked thread for some entertainment. That thread is almost ten years old, and things have only gotten much worse since then, although at the time this was hardly imaginable.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/acrobat-dc-so-horrible-it-s-making-me-want-to-cry/m-p/7112345

...and the hundreds of entries here at Uservoice about "Fix the childish ridiculous unusable slow buggy abysmal user interface":

https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/filters/top?category_id=195451&query=terrible

Few of the things which we can't do anymore with Adobe Reader:

1. To switch to two page view now takes 3 clicks, instead of 1 click and option to add it as shortcut to toolbar
2. Cannot hide toolbar (F8)
3. Cannot hide Menu bar (F9)

How can the new release be so bad?!

On my personal laptop I am finally able to switch to Old look but still unable to do so on my Corporate machine.

Adobe: don't fix what's not broken!

I agree with everyone. It's the worst upgrade to any software I have been subjected to, in over 30 years. Adobe, you are letting your programmers run your company and bring your product down. As a working professional, I don't have the time or the inclination to spend my time trying to figure out how to go to the next page or where my tools are now. You are playing a shell game to make it look like you have released an upgrade when it is nothing but poor dressing on the pig.