@NA wrote "The 'Professional' option will make Acrobat look like Photoshop, so that your millions of paying corporate customers can get on and do their work efficiently in a familiar and consistent UI, without having to suffer the poorly-devised experiments created by junior Adobe developers."

This is by far the most sensible proposal regarding this issue, ever. Brilliant. Implementing it wouldn’t just resolve hundreds of threads (see bit.ly/Acrobat-Uservoice-Interface ) in this awful forum instantly but also restore trust in Adobe.

Adobe, get your 𝖽𝖺𝗆𝗇 act together. Get off your 𝖺𝗌𝗌 and implement this proposal NOW. Anything less is an absolute disgrace and a slap in the face to your professional paying customers.

@Bhawna Arora: Closing a thread to try to hide the problem does not help your paying customers! Adobe developers have made a terrible mess of Acrobat for years - it is easily the worst UI of all software I use, which includes other Adobe products. If you want to do something useful, please provide a "Child/Professional" switch in the UI:
- The "Child" option will keep the current awful UI.
- The "Professional" option will make Acrobat look like Photoshop, so that your millions of paying corporate customers can get on and do their work efficiently in a familiar and consistent UI, without having to suffer the poorly-devised experiments created by junior Adobe developers.

@Bhawna Arora: Adobe installs forcefully overnight "degrades" for its products.
There seems to be no intention from Adobe to listen to the Customers and stop the product degradation process.
Closing a live thread with the Genuine Customer's feedback and concerns... will this resolve the issues?
Please Change the trend and start to listening to your Generous Faithful Customers.

@Bhawna Arora: You're trolling, right?

Thank you for sharing your feedback. As there has been no further activity or updates from your end, we will be closing this thread. Please feel free to create a new thread in case you have any feature request or issue / bug that you want to raise.

Thank you!!!

Thanks for this comment. I just got the horrible "update" and thankfully I can turn it off. I agree - it sucks!!

And from all the comments from Adobe it seems it all has been outsourced to India.

I'm looking at Adobe alternatives, and will pressure my company to switch to something less annoying.

It's bad enough that Adobe is scraping all of our documents to train their AI. No privacy whatsoever!

Hi Jamie and all, while we understand new UI comes with a learning curve, I will suggest to please go through this post once and see if it helps to learn new UI.
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/learn-new-acrobat.html

Meanwhile, Jamie, could you please help me what setting are gone/lost at your end, we will try to investigate the same at our end and will fix it if there is a bug.

Besides this, is there any issue or bug you're observing in functionality of tools/workflows in the UI, please let me know, will get it prioritised. Thanks for your consistent feedback.

Isn't it something -- everybody is screaming that the new interface is a POS. and The Company comes back and says, "Sorry you don't like it. You'll just have to get used to it."

I know there are a lot of Acrobat "knock offs" out there. Can anyone suggest one?

all adobe developers should be fired at once for this ****!

THANK YOU FOR THIS COMMENT!! New interface sucks. Made me so miserable.

Agree with all the others about how unusable this is. Couldn't put the print on the toolbar and it was moved all the way to the right and tiny.
couldn't move the tool shortcuts to the top.
When opening the toolbar and trying to get back from edit so I could see without the boxes, it closed the all tools. Couldn't figure out how to get back to a plain document without doing that.

Please do not force us to the new interface.

Seriously, what were theythinking? UI is awful and they took away basic features (i.e., Alt keys no longer work).

Please don't ever force us to update to this new UI Adobe.

Thank you, good person, for sharing how to turn off this abomination.

Hi Jamie,

We appreciate your valuable feedback. Few notable glitches that caught our attention is Tiny Icons and loss of customization.

You can resize your New Acrobat all at once from Hamburger menu > View > Display Size > Small/Standard/Large.

To retain the customization, Please Hamburger menu > Preferences > Documents > "Restore last view settings when reopening the documents".

~Bhawna.

We appreciate your valuable feedback! We're always looking for ways to make Acrobat better, and we appreciate the time and effort you have taken to share your feedback with us. 

We acknowledge that the new Acrobat represents a notable change, however we hope that as you get familiar with the new interface, you are able to be more productive & get more out of Acrobat.

With the new interface we aim to

1.Provide a simplified viewing experience that helps reduce clutter & optimise it for most used PDF actions that are relevant while viewing a document.

2. Easily allow users to discover PDF tools they need by ensuring tools are intuitively grouped and a click away,

**For example, all tools that allow content, page & file level edits can be found under one action based verb called “Edit”; tools that allow converting files to & from PDFs can be found under “Convert”; tools that allow filling & signing documents or requesting signatures from others under “Sign”.

3. Most importantly, the new interface enables users to effortlessly move between different PDF tools to complete their document related tasks

**For example, someone viewing comments in a PDF should also be able to easily edit the text of it without interrupting their workflow

**A user can seamlessly perform page level edits such as reordering, inserting, extracting, rotating or deleting pages while editing content and/or commenting on the file

We would also like to highlight that we have exhaustively tested these changes with users over the past 12 months, keenly monitoring user behaviour & addressing top user issues before gradually rolling out the new interface to the Acrobat user base

A point to note is that as we made these changes in the interface, we have ensured all tools & features that are currently supported, retain their familiar functionalities and workflows as they did in the previous version. We are proactively addressing any gaps or issues reported by users related to any break in current workflows.

We will follow up on this response with a detailed blog post explaining the changes, a guide to help familiarise you to the new interface, along with regular updates on upcoming changes.

Thank you once again for your feedback, and do look forward to our upcoming releases !

This option was under "View" for me.

Thank you for sharing we can turn this off!

Users -- go to Menu in top, left corner and then select "Disable New Acrobat"