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How to change the app that opens when you double-click a particular PDF Acrobat and Preview can both do it, but Preview does it faster and nicer, so let’s see how we can make that happen. Most of the time, though, all we want to do is double-click a PDF and have a look at it. Using the Preview app is a treat, with plenty of groovy features under the hood should you care to go deep. Second punishment: by using Acrobat, you’re NOT using Apple’s built-in, elegant, powerful, joy-to-use Preview app. I wouldn’t make my dog use Acrobat Reader.

Every version of Acrobat Reader is misery to use: slow to launch, clumsy to operate, thousands of indecipherable options in the Preferences dialog, and very “un-Mac-like.” First punishment: Adobe’s punishing your by making you use Acrobat Reader (or Acrobat Reader DC, or Acrobat Reader Pro DC, or maybe an older version of Acrobat Reader). If you ever want to revert back to using macOS Preview for opening PDFs, you simply repeat the process but select Preview from the list of applications instead of Adobe Reader.If Acrobat Reader has taken over your PDFs you’re being doubly punished.

Click on Change All to ensure that Adobe Reader is the default tool to open PDFs on your Mac.įrom now on, macOS will use Adobe Reader as the default application to open and edit PDFs.

In the Get Info dialog box that appears, click on the drop down menu for Open With and select Adobe Acrobat Reader from the list of applications available.

Select Get Info from the drop down list of options that appears:

Select any PDF file on your Mac and CTRL-click on it.

However, even if you’ve already got Adobe Acrobat on your Mac, it may not be set as your default app to open PDFs in macOS Big Sur or Monterey.īy default, macOS uses Preview to open PDFs but you can easily change this in just a few clicks.įollow these instructions to set Adobe Acrobat as the default PDF application on a Mac. Since Adobe invented the PDF format, it’s no surprise that Adobe Acrobat is by far the best PDF software for Mac and it makes sense to use it as your default PDF tool in macOS.

Here we show you how to make Adobe Acrobat the default app to open PDFs on a Mac. Although you can use Preview in macOS to open PDFs for free, you can’t edit PDFs on a Mac with it.