Abstract In this paper, we focus on the existence of positive solutions to following planar Schrödinger–Newton system with general critical exponential growth $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta {u}+u+\phi u =f(u)&{} \text{ in }\,\,\mathbb {R}^2, \\ \Delta {\phi }=u^2 &{} }\,\, \mathbb \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/M...