Swatches loading into background color when clicked, not foreground

Can someone advise. When I mouse click on a swatch from the brush tool the color I select is loaded into the background color instead of the foreground color. Then to use the color I have to slide the reverse tool, which is a pain and slow. How can I have the clicked color load into the foreground first? I'm in Mac CC.
Thanks,
Seth

It can be hard to tell which color chip in the color panel is actually the active one.
The active color chip in the color panel will have either a white or grey line around it, depending on the ui interface color photoshop is using)
When you use the eyedropper are you using any modifier key like Command.
You shouldn't need to use any modifier key with the Brush Tool selected and clicking on one of the swatches in the Swatches panel to set the foreground color.
(with the brush tool selected, holding down the command key while clicking on one of the swatches will set the background color in the toolbox)
If nothing seems to work, i would reset the photoshop preferences
Press and hold the Shift+Command+Option keys just after starting the launch of photoshop
Keep holding the keys down until you get a dialog asking if you want to delete the adobe photoshop settings file
Press Yes

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