How to leave your organization-owned account

Applies to Creative Cloud for teams.

Learn how Adobe ID users can leave an organization-owned Adobe account. If you have a managed or company-owned account (Enterprise ID or Federated ID), contact your administrator to request removal from the organization.

Before leaving your organization, ensure that you back up all content stored with Adobe and transfer your administrative roles, if any. If you leave the organization, you'll lose access to all its benefits. If you are using an account provided by your team, you'll also lose access to the complimentary membership.


Back up files and projects

Make a local copy or backup of your files, photos, videos, and other projects stored with Adobe, before leaving your organization. After you leave the organization, the apps assigned by your organization will start showing try/buy prompts and you will lose access to all benefits and services provided by your organization.

Adobe Stock

You will lose access to the content your organization licensed from Adobe Stock and any unused credit packs.

Adobe Assets

You will lose access to all organization-owned data that is stored in Adobe Assets.

Lightroom

You will lose access to any photos stored in the cloud for Lightroom.


Document Cloud

You won't be able to sign in to Document Cloud.

Adobe Sign

You will lose access to all contracts in Adobe Sign.

Experience Cloud

You won't be able to access content in Experience Cloud.


Transfer administrative roles

If you have any administrative roles assigned in the organization, you must transfer or revoke them before you can leave the organization:


Leave organization

The procedure to leave an organization depends on whether or not your organization has migrated to Adobe's new enterprise storage model. If your organization has migrated, use the steps in this section.

If your organization has not yet migrated, use the steps given in this section.

For Adobe ID user whose organization has migrated to Enterprise storage

Note:

To leave your organization, you will need to sign in with your Personal profile.

  1. Sign in to your personal Adobe account [https://account.adobe.com/profile]. Navigate to Account and Security > Accounts.

  2. Scroll down to Account Information and Access. All organizations associated with your account are listed. Select Leave Organization.

    Leave organization

    Note:

    Make a local copy or backup of your files, photos, videos, and other projects that are stored with Adobe. Leaving the organization, you'll lose access to all Adobe applications provided by your organization.

  3. If prompted, sign in again to verify your account. The page displays information about the benefits, data, and assets you lose when you leave your organization.

    Review the information, then select the Final confirmation checkbox at the end of the page to leave the organization.

    Leave organizaiton - Confirmation

  4. Select Leave Organization.

  5. Select Done.

    After leaving the organization

Repeat the steps in this procedure to unlink more organizations.

Your Adobe account is unlinked from your organization. A notification email is sent to the system administrators of the organization.

If you face any issues, contact your administrator.

Leaving organization: Exceptions

The following roles on the Admin Console will need to perform specific actions before they can leave the organization.

Administrator (on Admin Console and Global Admin Console)

If you are an admin on the Admin Console or Global Admin Console, you will be prompted with the following message.

Admin unable to leave organization

You will need to first ensure that all your admin privileges are revoked. To do this, a system admin will need to revoke your privileges.

Contract owner

If you are the Contract owner for the organization, you will first need to transfer this role to another person in your organization. For details, see how to Change the contract owner.

License developer

As a license developer, you will be prompted to contact Adobe support.

User with Adobe Stock plan

If you have an Adobe Stock plan, you will be prompted to first cancel your plan before you leave the organization.

For Adobe ID user whose organization has not yet migrated to Enterprise storage

Before you leave your organization-owned account, ensure that you have a backup of all content stored with Adobe. You must also transfer any administrative roles assigned to you.

  1. Sign in to your personal Adobe account [https://account.adobe.com/profile]. Navigate to Account and Security > Accounts.

  2. Scroll down to Account Information and Access. All organizations associated with your account are listed. Select Leave Organization.

    Leave organization

    Note:

    Make a local copy or backup of your files, photos, videos, and other projects that are stored with Adobe. Leaving the organization, you'll lose access to all Adobe applications provided by your organization.

  3. If prompted, sign in again to verify your account. The page displays information about the benefits, data, and assets you lose when you leave your organization.

    Review the information, then select the Final confirmation checkbox at the end of the page to leave the organization.

  4. Select Leave Organization. If you face any issues, you can contact your administrator [https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/contact-administrator.html].

    Your Adobe account is unlinked from your organization. The organization's system administrators receive a notification email.

    You can repeat the steps to unlink more organizations.

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