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Reset or change your Adobe password

  1. Creative Cloud User Guide
  2. Introduction to Creative Cloud
    1. Common questions | Creative Cloud
    2. Creative Cloud system requirements
    3. Creative Cloud file sync | Known issues
  3. Download, install, set up, and update
    1. Download Creative Cloud apps
    2. Open Creative Cloud apps
    3. Start workspace
    4. Update Creative Cloud apps
    5. Change the language of your Creative Cloud apps
    6. Uninstall the Creative Cloud desktop app
    7. Uninstall or remove Creative Cloud apps
  4. Manage your account
    1. Convert a Creative Cloud trial to a paid membership
    2. Reset your Adobe password
    3. Change your Adobe plan
    4. Update credit card and billing address
    5. View, download, or email your Adobe invoice
    6. Fix a failed or missed payment
    7. Cancel Adobe trial or subscription
  5. Creative services
    1. Using Adobe Stock in Creative Cloud apps
    2. Using Adobe Fonts in Creative Cloud apps
    3. Creative Cloud Market is no longer available
  6. Collaboration and storage services
    1. What are cloud documents
    2. Cloud documents FAQ
    3. Create or convert files to cloud documents
    4. Set up cloud documents to use offline
    5. Revert to an earlier version of a cloud document
    6. Share your work for commenting
    7. Why can't I see my cloud documents offline?
    8. Creative Cloud Libraries
    9. Collaborate on Creative Cloud Libraries and folders
    10. Collaboration FAQ
    11. Sync your files using cloud storage
    12. Find how much cloud storage you have
    13. Set sync options
    14. Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced files
    15. Download Synced files and content
  7. Projects
    1. Project overview
    2. Create Projects
    3. Share Projects
    4. Create new folders and libraries
    5. Move folders and libraries
  8. Organize libraries
    1. Create groups in libraries
    2. Delete groups in libraries
    3. Delete elements in libraries
    4. Move elements in libraries
  9. Creative Cloud mobile apps
    1. Common questions | Mobile apps
    2. Adobe Creative Cloud for mobile
  10. Enterprise and teams
    1. Enterprise Learn and Support
    2. Teams Learn and Support
    3. Quick start guide for team members
  11. Adobe Content Authenticity
    1. Adobe Content Authenticity (Beta)
    2. Inspect tool on Adobe Content Authenticity (Beta)
    3. Adobe Content Authenticity Chrome browser extension
    4. Content Credentials Generative AI training and usage preference

Learn how to reset a forgotten password or change your existing password.

Reset forgotten password

  1. Select Get help signing in

    The Adobe account sign in page with option to sign in with your email address, your social accounts, create an account,  or get help with signing in.
    This initiates the process of resetting your password.

  2. Select Reset your password.

    The Get help window showing options to find your account or rest your password.
    If you don't remember your email account or Adobe ID, select Find your account.

  3. Enter your email address and select Continue.

    The Enter your email address window showing the text box for you to enter your email address to reset the password for your Adobe account.
    You are now prompted to verify your identity.

  4. Enter the code sent to your email address.

    The Verify your identity window with field to enter the email verification code or select Resend code if you do not receive the code.
    Select Resend Code if you didn't receive the verification code on your email address.

    Note:

    If you have added a phone number and enabled two-step authentication, you'll receive a code on your phone number as well to verify your identity. 

  5. In the Update your password screen, enter your new password twice to confirm, then select Update password.

    The Update your password window showing fields for entering your new password and confirming the new password, a check box to sign out of all active logins, and the button to update the password.
    Select Sign out of all active logins for signing out from your Adobe account on all devices.

    You've successfully updated your password.

Can't find an email containing the code?

If you can't find the email from Adobe in your inbox, check your spam or junk folder. If you still can't find it, see Didn't receive expected email from Adobe.

Don't have access to your email address?

To update your email address, see Edit Adobe account personal profile

Change existing password

To ensure the security of your account and data, it is a good idea to periodically change your account password.

  1. In the Password section, select Change.

    The Sign-in and security page showing options to change password.
    On the Sign-in and security page, you can also perform tasks such as adding a passkey, turning on or off two-step verification, and connecting your social accounts with your Adobe account.

  2. In the Verify your identity window, enter your current password in the provided space and select Continue

  3. In the Update your password window, enter your new password twice to confirm, and then select Update Password.

    The Update your password window showing fields for entering your new password and confirming the new password, a check box to sign out of all active logins, and the button to update the password.
    Select Sign out of all active logins for signing out from your Adobe account on all devices.

Need to update your email address or phone number?

To change your email address or phone number, see Edit Adobe account personal profile.  

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