Update Creative Cloud apps

The Adobe Creative Cloud desktop application checks for updates periodically and notifies you whenever one of your installed apps has an update available. However, you can retrieve the latest updates for your Creative Cloud applications without waiting for the Creative Cloud desktop application to refresh.

To check for application updates, click the three vertical dots icon at the upper-right in the Creative Cloud desktop app and choose Check for App Updates.

When you update your apps, preferences and settings are migrated to the new version. The previous versions of the apps are uninstalled. You can use the Advanced options to change these default settings.

Use the Advanced options to specify the app update behavior. By default, all previously installed versions of Creative Cloud apps are removed and customized preferences and settings are migrated to the latest version.

If you want to retain previously installed versions or not migrate settings, update the following options:

When selected, applicable settings and preferences of your current apps are migrated automatically to the latest installed version. When you launch the apps, you may be prompted to import settings from earlier versions. On updating, Dreamweaver, Edge Animate, and Muse always migrate preferences from the previous versions.

Some apps, however, do not support migrating preferences and settings from previous versions:

• Acrobat DC
• Bridge

When selected, previously installed versions of Creative Cloud apps are removed when you update. For example, updating to Photoshop CC 2015.5 uninstalls Photoshop CC 2015.

Some apps, however, do not support retaining the older versions. When you click Update All, previous versions of these apps are uninstalled, even if you've deselected the Remove old versions option.

The Creative Cloud desktop app lets you set a preference to keep your apps updated automatically as soon as new versions are released. 

• The auto-update cycle begins whenever an update is available and the Creative Cloud desktop app gets refreshed or restarted.
• If an app is open when the update cycle begins and there is an update for that app, the app will not be auto-updated.
• If an app cannot be auto-updated for any reason, you will have to manually update the app or it will be auto-updated in the next update cycle.

When you click Update or Update All to update your apps for the first time, you get a dialog box with an option to keep your apps up-to-date automatically. Select Enable auto-update now to enable this feature. 

You can also enable auto-update for all apps from preferences or manage auto-update for individual apps. 

Once you enable auto-update in the preferences, you can manage auto-update for individual Creative Cloud apps.

If there is a problem while auto-updating your apps, you will receive one of the following OS notifications:

To learn more about the error and to fix the issue, click More Info in front of the product name in the Apps tab.

You can manually update the app by selecting Update in the Apps tab once the issue is resolved.

Once you enable auto-update, your Creative Cloud apps will be updated whenever an update is available or will be upgraded whenever a new version is available. In case of upgrade, the previous version of the app will be removed. However, preferences will be saved in both the scenarios.