Introducing the new Acrobat experience

Adobe Acrobat now has a simplified interface to help you quickly discover tools and complete your PDF tasks efficiently. Compared to your current interface, the new version is more intuitive and fluid and provides consistent experiences across all devices -- desktop, mobile, and tablet.

Check out the new interface

The new interface is clutter-free to let you focus more on your document. The menu bar, toolbar, and panels are leaner with tools organized contextually, which lets you quickly find the required tools. The interface is highly flexible. You can choose to have your preferred set of tools in the toolbar.

Where are all my tools?

You can find the common Acrobat tools more easily and quickly in the new interface. Here's a list of components that include all your tools:

The document pane displays the PDF page in the center, at an optimal zoom level. While interacting with the content, you can access various context menus to quickly launch a tool to perform an action.

The hamburger menu (Windows® only) includes options for the most common tasks that users perform. On Windows®, it helps to combine all the options available under the existing File, Edit, and View menus. However, on macOS, the File, Edit, and View menus continue to appear separately.

The All tools panel is a container that allows you to access the entire set of Acrobat tools.

The top bar segregates PDF-related tools from the file actions including search, save, print, and share.

The quick tools panel includes tools, such as commenting, annotating, and filling out forms that users can quickly access. The panel is a floating widget that users can customize for specific workflow requirements.

The Search box allows you to search for content within the document and also find Acrobat tools.

The navigation pane Includes options that allow you to bookmark, view, navigate pages, and access zoom settings and viewing options. 

You can customize the navigation pane to include your preferred settings.

How to enable the new experience

Enabling the new experience is easy. If you're on the current experience, perform the following to enable the new experience.

Quick tools menu

The quick tools menu enables you to access the tools that you commonly use to accomplish PDF tasks. By default, the Select or Pan, Annotation, and Adobe Fill & Sign tools appear on the quick tools menu. You can customize the Quick Tools menu to add more tools.

Select or Pan tool

Use the Select or Pan tool to select objects or pan the document.

Annotation tools

Add annotations to your PDF like comment, text box, highlight, underline, strikethrough, or draw freeform by using the commenting tools on the menu.

Adobe Fill & Sign tools

Use the Adobe Fill & Sign tools on the menu to fill the form or add a signature.

Add more tools

Use the Options (…) menu to add more tools to the Quick Tools bar. In the Customize Quick Tools window, choose the tools you want to add and select Save.

How to edit text and images

Choose Edit from the global bar to see the tools and options in the Edit pane. The new Edit pane also includes options to organize pages, redact a PDF, and prepare a form.

How to convert files

Choose Convert from the global toolbar to see the available tools and options in the Convert pane. Apart from options to convert and export PDFs, the Convert pane also includes options to optimize PDFs and tools, such as Scan & OCR.

How to fill out and sign a PDF

Use the Sign tool in the global bar to fill a form or add a signature and request signatures from others using Acrobat Sign.

Explore other tools in new Acrobat

Select the links below to know more about the new experience with using other Acrobat tools.

Turn off the new Acrobat experience

The new Acrobat experience is a step toward Acrobat's future. However, if it doesn’t suit your needs, you can revert to the previous experience. 

• Windows: Select the hamburger menu, and then choose Disable new Acrobat.  

• macOS: Go to View > Disable new Acrobat.

If you're an enterprise user, your admin can turn of new Acrobat by setting the bEnableAV2Enterprise registry key under FeatureLockDown (Lockable Settings) for Modern Viewer in the Acrobat Enterprise Toolkit (ETK) preference reference.