How to opt out of AI training: Adobe

Both switches are on until you turn them off. Adobe analyses the content you keep on its servers, and reports how you use its desktop apps, unless you say otherwise. Two toggles, one page, about a minute.

How to find your Adobe AI opt-out manually

1. Open your privacy settings

Go to account.adobe.com/privacy and sign in. It lands on Data and privacy settings under Account and security.

2. Turn off Desktop app usage

The switch reads "Share information on how I use Adobe desktop apps." Adobe notes this one does not cover beta apps, which report separately.

3. Turn off Content analysis for product improvement

The switch reads "Allow Adobe to analyze my content processed or stored on Adobe's servers for product improvement." It is directly below the first one, on the same screen.

Both save as you flip them. Nothing to submit.

Be clear about what this does and does not cover

This is the part Adobe's own page is careful about, and it is worth repeating rather than letting the heading imply more than it should. Under Content analysis, Adobe states:

This setting does not allow Adobe to analyze your content to train generative AI models.

In other words, the toggle governs machine-learning analysis of your files for "product improvement". Adobe says outright that its generative models are not trained on your content through it. Turning it off is still worth doing, because it stops Adobe running analysis over work you have stored with them. Just do not read it as the switch that keeps your work out of Firefly, because Adobe does not claim it is one.

There is also no toggle anywhere on this page that says "generative AI training". If your concern is specifically that Adobe is training image models on your files, this page does not offer a control for it either way.

If you are on an organisation or enterprise plan

Both of these are personal-account settings. Where your Adobe account belongs to a company or school, an administrator may have set content analysis for everyone and locked it, in which case the switch will not be yours to change.

The reliable lever

These settings govern what Adobe does with content it already holds. What you control outright is how much is sitting on their servers in the first place. Files kept locally rather than synced to Creative Cloud are not content Adobe can analyse.