What is Adobe Desktop Service on Mac?
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Creative Cloud's core background service for sign-in, licensing, installs and updates.
Adobe Desktop Service is a core Creative Cloud background process that handles tasks like signing in, checking licences, and installing and updating Adobe apps. It runs while Creative Cloud is running.
- Category
- Third-party
- Made by
- Adobe
- Safe to quit:
- With care
Shown in Activity Monitor as Adobe Desktop Service
Why is Adobe Desktop Service using so much CPU or memory?
- Installing or updating Adobe apps
- Licence checks or sign-in
- A stuck update
What to do
- 1Let updates finish in the Creative Cloud app
- 2Quit Creative Cloud when not using Adobe apps
- 3Update or reinstall Creative Cloud if it keeps spiking
Safe to quit? With care.
Open Adobe apps may lose sign-in or updates until it restarts.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library