Illustrator home screen GenAI / adverts taking up too much space

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June 1, 2026
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Is there any way to remove the GenAI creation fields from Illustrator’s home screen? It’s just in the way. It’s frustrating to now have to scroll past a massive AI box plus featured ads before I can properly see my recent files list.

Either give me an option to hide AI and featured items or at least put them below my recents. They shouldn’t be taking up the screen like this.

Correct answer TheSquirrelNutkin

@Cheesusmice @graphics_4075 @mhendonewspro @gareth-lner @SMVeez @Sjo-Cal Speedtoys @Susan Jazzy @Onno------

I have added this as a User Voice request if anyone wants to add a vote: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/51443023-reduce-ai-clutter-on-illustrator-home-screen 👍

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MissCatD

Participating Frequently

This is infuriating. We are REAL artists and designers, here. We don’t need your nonsense Ai features, and don’t want them, Adobe. Stop pushing your wasted investments on us. We already pay outrageous rates just to use your Suite, the least you can do is let us turn off Advertisements and disable all this bloatwear.

TheSquirrelNutkinAuthorCorrect answer

Participant

@Cheesusmice @graphics_4075 @mhendonewspro @gareth-lner @SMVeez @Sjo-Cal Speedtoys @Susan Jazzy @Onno------

I have added this as a User Voice request if anyone wants to add a vote: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/51443023-reduce-ai-clutter-on-illustrator-home-screen 👍

Cheesusmice

Participating Frequently

Takes up a huge amount of space, and also the homepage feels very laggy now.. I don’t want to use your gen ai, least of all as a starting point.

graphics_4075

Inspiring

The only option to “remove” the Gen AI stuff from your home screen is to remove the home screen completely in the settings.

It removes the ability to easily open recent files but the added +5s to my workflow keeps me just a little bit more sane..

Cheers

mhendonewspro

Participant

Adding my voice to the gallery, because this critical UX/UI oversight needs to be addressed.

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gareth-lner

Participant

I’ve just updated to 30.5.1 and now the welcome screen has a series of generative AI features and prompts pushed above the list of my recent documents. I sincerely assume that Adobe haven’t just pushed this on us with no way of removing it, so can someone advise how I hide this please? Thanks.

SMVeez

Participant

How do I hide all this nonsense on the Illustrator Home Screen so I can see my actual files?

Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hi @SMVeez @Sjo-Cal Speedtoys,

Thanks for sharing your feedback. At the moment, there isn't an option to hide only the GenAI and Featured sections while keeping Recent Files visible on the Illustrator Home Screen.

I understand how important this is to your workflow, and I'm sorry it isn't available right now. In the meantime, the best way to push for this is to post a request on UserVoice: https://adobe.ly/4nXDxmO

Adding it there helps the team track demand and prioritize. Once you've created the request, please share the link here so other community members can upvote and add their input.

Looking forward to your update.

Anubhav