Adobe says my annual student license to the Creative Cloud is expired but it shouldn't
- November 10, 2025
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Hi everyone.
I'll try to explain myself as best as I can since English isn't my native language and this isn't an easy topic. In the evening of Saturday 8th I was using Adobe Color for a task and, since I wanted to save the palette in my library, I logged in, but before doing that Adobe asked me to add a secondary email, which I did.
(I'm telling this because maybe it has to do with what happened next).
After some time, I went to open Illustrator and a pop up told me that I had to buy it in order to use it. Which is odd, since on the 9th of October I activated my student annual subscription to the Creative Cloud. Needless to say, I slightly panicked.
I have now a almost-year-long free trial (see screenshot for reference) and did everything I could to try and fix the problem on my hand of the things. In order, I:
- Signed out and logged in on CC
- Signed out, restarted my Macbook Air 15" (macOS Tahoe 26.0.1), AND logged in back again
- Run the Limited Access Repair tool, which has found nothing
- Refreshed saved credentials, removed outdated Adobe certificates on Passkey
- Even tried to check on the hosts files but found them clean as ever
Nothing has worked. Can someone please help me?
