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Update on the status of Adobe Animate

  • February 3, 2026
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Yesterday, Adobe shared an email with Adobe Animate customers on the future of Animate. What we shared did not meet our standards and caused a lot of confusion and angst within the community. On behalf of Adobe, I want to apologize.

 

While an email to all Animate customers will go out shortly, we wanted to quickly share a few things: 1) our standard approach for applications in maintenance mode, 2) changes to our plans for Adobe Animate and its status, and 3) our commitments to ensuring that you always have access to your content, regardless of the state of development of an application.

 

Standard Approach for Applications in Maintenance Mode

If we deprioritize active development of an application, our approach is to move that application into maintenance mode with continued support. Under maintenance mode, the application will continue to be available, will continue to receive security and bug fixes, but will not get new features.

 

If we decide to go a step further and discontinue a product, we will work closely with the community to ensure they have adequate time to plan in order to minimize disruption and will take steps so that the community continues to have long-term access to their content.

 

Current State of Adobe Animate

Adobe Animate is in maintenance mode. While we are no longer adding new features to Animate, we will continue to support it and provide ongoing security and bug fixes. More importantly, Animate will continue to be available for both new and existing users. This is a change from what we communicated in the email yesterday for the status of Adobe Animate, its time-frame, and availability.

 

To be clear, we are not discontinuing or removing access to Adobe Animate and it will continue to be available to both existing and new customers.

 

Commitments for long-term content/file access

For Adobe Animate, our commitment is to work with the community to ensure users continue to have long-term access to their content, regardless of the state of development of the application.

    102 replies

    The future awaits...
    Participant
    August 31, 2026

    Thank you so much. I was worried for a bit. Please take into note that people (like me) genuinely enjoy using this app and work hard to build projects within this. Hope you guys keep it up. The Future Awaits...

    dawnk11363365
    Known Participant
    August 17, 2026

    I’ve worked with tech support (nice guy), troubleshooted with ChatGPT, and still cannot get the video to encode and include the looping animations imbedded in symbols. It’s the looping animation that makes Animate so useful. For instance, I use it to add eye blinks and flapping wings. Every proposed solution has been far too difficult for me, as an artist, when I all had to do--before maintenance mode--was export>video and it encoded in ME. I’m beyond frustrated as this problem has been ongoing since April. The turntable function finally made my workflow much faster and now Animate is basically useless to me, unless someone knows of a plugin that can assist. I’m going to have to switch to Moho and lose years of work and skill improvement in Animate, but I may have no choice. I don’t see why Adobe cannot upgrade Animate to work properly.

    kglad
    Community Expert
    kgladCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 18, 2026

    ​@dawnk11363365 

     

    again, this is an old thread that isn’t checked and your post is off-topic.  for animate questions/issue, you should post a new message.

    calm_inspirationa179
    Participant
    August 9, 2026

    Thanks for clarifying this. The confirmation that Animate will remain available to both existing and new users, with ongoing security and bug fixes, is reassuring. Keeping long-term access to existing Animate projects and files is especially important for users and studios with years of work invested in the format.

      dawnk11363365
      Known Participant
      July 7, 2026

      I spent several hours with ChatGPT troubleshooting what is wrong with Adobe Animate not converting files to video to post to social media. The chatbot says, ultimately, that Animate is not sending the file to Media Encoder so it is not going into the queue. I am very frustrated at the lack of support from Adobe regarding this problem. It makes me want to quit using all Adobe products and learn alternatives.

      jefubbudu
      jefubbudu
      Inspiring
      July 7, 2026

      Blender's animation tools are top notch. A bit more complex, but i believe in you. Don't pin your future on an uncaring corporation. Open source exists as long as the interest or need does.

      dawnk11363365
      Known Participant
      July 7, 2026

      Thanks for responding, Jefubbudu. At least someone cares!

      dawnk11363365
      Known Participant
      May 17, 2026

      Hello. For St. Patrick’s Day, I had no issues exporting my Flash animation project to video. Two weeks later, Media Encoder refused to import the Flash file, claiming “Adobe Media Encoder failed to encode, please check status in Adobe Media Encoder queue for more details!” I did not change any settings and am very frustrated as I spent several nights on a project I could not convert to mp4 to post. Thank you for any help. I’m an artist, not a freaking tech wizard!

       

      se_1917
      se_1917
      Participant
      April 23, 2026

      please fix animate so it does not delete files. completely unacceptable and unheard of. i’ve been using your products for so long and this is just unacceptable. i’ve lost so many hours of work.

        mar666
        Participating Frequently
        April 14, 2026

        About 5 years ago Adobe promised Animate is doing fine and wil not be discontinued! I can’t even believe what you did. It’s like kill Photoshop or After Effects. There is no other tool for doing web interactions with timeline and suitable for animation. Or where you can easily paste  quite complicated svg or shapes from Illustrator without problems. Years of work will be lost. I can’t trust You and there is no way i will pay for Your AI.  FREE ANIMATE !!!! 

         

          Chin Ga-Deras
          Chin Ga-Deras
          Participant
          April 13, 2026

          You killed FLASH because it was insecure, said jobs ( not because this way games can only run in controlled stor $$$ environments iApplStore play )

          now you are killing Flash 2.0 -- Animate! if you don’t want it!  free it in github

          let others mantain it! for Free!! 

          I wonder what is the CEO thinking in to doing this…...

            dawnk11363365
            Known Participant
            April 7, 2026

            I appreciate that Animate is being maintained. However, I am no longer able to export the file to video. It worked fine on 3/17/26 to post my St. Patrick’s Day cartoon, but would not function two weeks later to post my Easter cartoon, which I spent several nights creating. The program is worthless to me without the capability of converting to video to post to social media.

            I did transfer the file to After Effects which converted it to mp4, but I lost the movie clips and the sound. Unless Adobe corrects this situation, I’ll be forced to rethink using the Adobe suite since this was the main software I subscribed for.

            24237476oq14
            Participating Frequently
            April 6, 2026

            Well since 2022 the price for Adobe shares dropped from 688$ to 244 !!! Have a guess … Why is that ?

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