Adobe Preview CC FAQ

Preview CC app is the fastest way to preview mobile and web designs accurately and simultaneously on multiple iOS devices. With Preview CC, you can make sure your designs appear exactly the way you want on your target iOS devices.

Yes; Preview CC is a companion app for the Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 release.

You need either a free or paid Creative Cloud membership to use Preview CC. If you’re not already a member, you can sign up for free Creative Cloud membership.

Preview CC is no longer available for download from the App Store.

If you have previously downloaded Preview CC and not updated to the October 2017 release of Photoshop CC, you can continue to use this feature with earlier versions of Photoshop CC.

Visit the Device Preview Help page or post a question to the Device Preview forums.

Preview CC works with any device that supports iOS 8 or above.

• iPad Pro
• iPhone 4s
• iPhone 5
• iPhone 5c
• iPhone 5s
• iPhone 6
• iPhone 6 Plus
• iPhone 6s
• iPhone 6s Plus
  
• iPod Touch (5th generation)
• iPad 2
• iPad (3rd generation)
• iPad (4th generation)
• iPad Air
• iPad Air 2
• iPad Mini
• iPad Mini 2
• iPad Mini 3

Preview CC is not available for Android.

Preview CC works with Photoshop CC 2015, which is available as a free update for Creative Cloud members. 

You can connect Preview CC to Photoshop using a USB connection or over Wi-Fi.

While connecting to Photoshop for the first time, Preview CC requires that the Device Preview panel in Photoshop is open. Any subsequent connections don’t require this panel to be open.

You’ll need to sign in to your Creative Cloud account using an Adobe ID to use Preview CC over Wi-Fi.

There's no specific limit on the number of devices you can connect. Keep in mind that the more devices you have simultaneously connected, the more bandwidth it will take to send images, which might reduce the speed of the preview process.

To begin with, download and install iTunes on your computer. Now, ensure the following before connecting Preview CC to Photoshop using a USB port:

• Preview CC is up and running on your device.
• The USB cable is connected to the computer running Photoshop.
• The Device Preview panel in Photoshop is open.

To connect Preview CC to Photoshop over Wi-Fi, do the following:

• Sign in to Adobe Preview CC using your Creative Cloud account.
• Make sure that Adobe Photoshop and your device are on the same Wi-Fi network.
• Ensure that the Device Preview panel in Photoshop is open.

To preview a design simultaneously on two devices—for example, an an iPad and an iPhone—make sure that both the devices are connected to Photoshop over Wi-Fi or using USB. Preview CC automatically detects and displays the artboards sized for each device.

Yes, you can swipe to navigate and preview different artboards. Preview CC lets you swipe through artboards based on the width. For example, if you have a PSD that has artboards for different iOS sizes, and you connect an iPhone 5, Preview CC will automatically display the first iPhone 5 artboard. You can also select a specific artboard from the app's Nav menu and navigate through the artboards that match the width of the selected one.

Preview CC shows the currently active layer comp in Photoshop. Use the Layer Comp panel in Photoshop to select which layer comp to preview.

That depends on the size of your Photoshop file and number of layers. It may take a few seconds for changes you make in Photoshop to appear in Preview CC.

Swipe to navigate between different artboards and preview them on actual devices.

Pinch open to zoom in; pinch close to zoom out.

Double-tap to toggle between 100% and Fill Screen views.

Drag to pan around the image.

Yes; Preview CC caches all of the artboards you viewed prior to disconnecting. 

Yes, Preview CC supports both portrait and landscape designs. Preview CC automatically detects the correctly-sized artboards for that rotation.