Should you run Photoshop on a Lumia phone? No, but someone did anyway

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Photoshop is now available in beta for Windows 10 on ARM, so of course, someone put it onto a Lumia.

Lumia 950 Photoshop
Lumia 950 Photoshop (Image credit: @imbushuo on Twitter)

What you need to know

  • Someone managed to run Photoshop on a Lumia phone.
  • The phone has been hacked to run Windows 10 on ARM.
  • Adobe recently released a beta version of Photoshop compiled for Windows 10 on ARM.

The phone has been modified to run Windows 10 on ARM, so don't go digging through your drawers hoping to replicate the feat with your old phone. There's a passionate community that modifies Lumia devices to run Windows 10 on ARM, and this is the latest fun trick they've pulled off.

Modders and hackers have managed to do all sorts of things with older Lumia hardware, including adding Continuum support, adding a custom phone dialer app, and adding the ability for devices to detect a SIM while running Windows 10.

Projects like this are more for fun, and Photoshop probably doesn't run that well on a modded phone from 2015, but it's nice to see people accomplish feats like this and wonder what might have been.

Sean Endicott
Sean Endicott
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Sean Endicott is a news writer and apps editor for Windows Central with 11+ years of experience. A Nottingham Trent journalism graduate, Sean has covered the industry’s arc from the Lumia era to the launch of Windows 11 and generative AI. Having started at Thrifter, he uses his expertise in price tracking to help readers find genuine hardware value.

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