Adobe Creative Cloud outage history

An outage affected Adobe Creative Cloud's Photoshop and the Photoshop API. The disruption began at 7:41 AM UTC and was resolved by 7:56 AM UTC, with the affected components briefly going offline before returning to normal.

Adobe Creative Cloud experienced a brief degradation impacting the CC Community and Adobe Stock components. The issue began at 7:01 PM UTC and was resolved by 7:21 PM UTC, lasting roughly twenty minutes. Users may have encountered slower performance or limited access to features within CC Community and Adobe Stock during that window, before services returned to normal.

Adobe Creative Cloud briefly degraded, impacting the CC Community and Adobe Stock components. Impact began at 5:06 PM UTC and persisted for about 35 minutes before service returned to normal. The official status updates show CC Community / Adobe Stock moving from degraded to normal operation, with no broader service issues reported.

Users experienced degraded performance across Lightroom Web, Desktop, and Mobile, along with CC Community and Adobe Stock. Reports described apps failing to update, hangs at 47%, and Photoshop not opening after installation, disrupting creative workflows. The degradation began around 7:30 PM UTC and affected multiple Lightroom components before gradually easing over the next day.

Adobe Creative Cloud experienced a brief degradation affecting CC Community and Adobe Stock. The issue began at 8:17 AM UTC when the CC Community / Adobe Stock component entered a degraded state, and was resolved by 9:01 AM UTC. In the window of roughly 44 minutes, users likely encountered slower performance or limited functionality when interacting with CC Community features or Adobe Stock assets. The status updates indicated the affected component moved from up to degraded before returning to full operation, signaling the service was restored.

Adobe Creative Cloud experienced a brief degraded state affecting the CC Community / Adobe Stock component. The component transitioned to a degraded status at 2:41 AM UTC and returned to normal by 2:52 AM UTC. The issue was isolated to that component and resolved quickly, with service resuming standard availability shortly after. The official status updates indicated a temporary warning for CC Community / Adobe Stock, and users may have encountered intermittent access or performance issues related to those features during the window.

Adobe Creative Cloud experienced two separate incidents in late June 2026. The CC Community / Behance component entered a degraded state starting at 7:11 AM UTC and was restored by 7:26 AM UTC. In addition, Lightroom / Lightroom Desktop went into a degraded state earlier, with the status page switching to warn at 7:06 PM UTC; that degradation persisted until the component returned to up at 3:26 PM UTC. These two events reflect separate issues affecting different parts of Adobe Creative Cloud.

Impact and user experience: Users could experience intermittent access and degraded editing or sharing workflows on Behance and Lightroom Desktop during these windows. The official status updates show degradations followed by restorations, indicating a partial outage rather than a full service-wide disruption. A handful of user reports described issues with related tools such as Adobe Express and Firefly, suggesting broader connectivity effects for some Creative Cloud users during the period.

Adobe Express and Adobe Express Mobile on Adobe Creative Cloud briefly went offline, affecting access to Express features and mobile app functionality. The disruption began at 2:51 PM UTC and was resolved by 3:06 PM UTC, lasting about a quarter of an hour. Users attempting content creation or publishing with Adobe Express would have experienced interruptions during this window.

A user reported issues around 2:45 PM UTC prior to the official acknowledgment. The status updates did not disclose a root cause, and the affected Express components returned to normal after the brief disruption.

The CC Community / Behance component of Adobe Creative Cloud experienced degraded performance beginning at 11:12 PM UTC, with the status moving to degraded (warn). The incident lasted about 2 hours and 39 minutes, and the component returned to normal by 1:51 AM UTC. Users working with CC Community or Behance may have faced intermittent access or slower performance during this window. Adobe issued two status updates during the incident, describing the degraded service and eventual recovery.

Adobe Creative Cloud briefly listed the CC Community / Behance component as degraded (warn) starting at Feb 19, 2026 10:12 PM UTC and resolved the issue by Feb 19, 2026 10:21 PM UTC. The incident involved 2 official status updates and lasted about 9 minutes before the status returned to normal. No user reports were observed, and the impact appeared isolated to CC Community / Behance rather than indicating a broader service outage.