Does Adobe train on your data?
Adobe analyses your content with machine learning to improve its products by default, and says so plainly. An opt-out exists and the policy points to it.
A self-serve opt-out exists
"How Adobe analyzes your content using techniques such as machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software, and how to opt out of this."
- 5 Sept 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All accounts (Creative Cloud / Document Cloud)
- global
- Fetched from the company
- 376140F8…0FDC
How we read it: The policy frames this as analysing content "using techniques such as machine learning" to improve Services and Software — not the same claim as training a generative model on your files, and this capture makes the stronger claim in neither direction. The quoted sentence is the policy's own section summary; the operative provision sits under "Content Analytics with Cloud Content". The opt-out mechanics live on a linked page this monitor doesn't archive, so it is graded a self-serve toggle on the strength of the policy calling it an opt-out right rather than a request process.
opt out, opt-out, machine learning, Content Analytics, by default, disable
What the document does offer
- the policy's own contents entry: "How Adobe analyzes your content using techniques such as machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software, and how to opt out of this"
- "Content Analytics with Cloud Content. Subject to your opt-out rights, including those described here" — the opt-out is by cross-reference
- the linked pages are helpx.adobe.com/manage-account/using/machine-learning-faq.html and adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html; both timed out when fetched on 24 Aug 2026, so neither is archived here and the mechanics remain unverified
- "These features are off by default and, should you choose to enable them, you can always disable these features" — this concerns biometric-enabled features, not content analytics
- the marketing opt-out, which does not reach content analysis
Why none of it applies: Adobe states that an opt-out exists and puts its mechanics on two pages outside the policy. Both refused to load when fetched, so what the control is, where it lives and whether it is on by default are all unconfirmed here — the policy asserts the control and this site can only record that assertion. D rather than C for that reason: the switch is named nowhere a reader of the policy can reach without leaving it.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Self-serve toggle
- Not stated
- 51 / 100
- Not stated
- Unknown
How to opt out of Adobe AI training
Plan by plan, from what Adobe's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All accounts (Creative Cloud / Document Cloud)
Yes. Adobe has a self-serve setting.
- Sign in at account.adobe.com/privacy.
- In the "Content analysis for product improvement" section, click the Off toggle.
Personal accounts only; Adobe says business, team and school profiles are opted out already and show no toggle. Content you submit to its improvement programmes, such as the Photoshop Improvement Program, is analysed regardless.
What this policy has done since we started watching
5 changes detected since 1 Jan 2023. Each one is a diff between two archived copies, and each links to the passage that moved.
- MajorTouched jurisdiction, retention, what's collected, sub-processors, plan tiers and training.
- Touched sub-processors.
- MajorTouched human review, opt-outs, retention, what's collected and training.
- Touched jurisdiction, opt-outs, retention, what's collected, sub-processors and training.
- MajorTouched jurisdiction, opt-outs, retention, what's collected and sub-processors.
Vendor response
We wrote to Adobe on 18 Aug 2026, quoting the clauses above and inviting a correction. Nothing has come back. That's published because a company declining to comment on its own policy is something a reader should know, and because the invitation should be on the record whether or not it's taken up. Any reply goes here, word for word.
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