Adobe CC app overheating MacBook Pro

I have the same problem, and my brand new Macbook pro overheats and the fan run just when I use Adobe Photoshop. I haven't this issue running other Apple applications. Shutting the Creative Cloud app doesn't fix my problem.

Interestingly, I'm using the last standalone version of LR and my wife and I both have MBP 16" 2019 laptops.  My machine has been cool since day one.  My wife just received hers and after installing Adobe CC, I was shocked that her machine was almost too hot to touch.  Thought it might be a defective laptop. Then after my old LR stopeed working and needed to download the CC application manager, my machine also overheated.  Guess what?  No CC for us!!  Sloppy coding.  As I write this the application manager is running in the background and my CPUs are abve 65C!!  I'm not a pro photographer and there are so many good (free!) photo editing apps, this just sealed Adobe's fate w/ me.

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I just recently upgraded to Catalina. I also had just recently added Adobe Creative Cloud (offered to all employees for home and business use recently) to get the full version of Acrobat for very occasional work with mult-layer pdfs.

Even without any Adobe apps running, when my Mac would sleep the screen, the CPU would spike. When I woke it up, CPU usage would appear to be normal. Finally, I thought to try to disable everything Adobe was running in the background, which turned out to be no fewer than 7 (maybe more?) processes, as identified by the icon in Activity Monitor. I also disabled everything from the settings, and by dropping down to the command line to run this command:

launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist

After all that, and a reboot, my Mac sleeps quietly. So, it's nothing to do with the mac, or dust (I had recently upgraded the SSD inside, and cleaned out what little accumulation there was)--it's a problem with Adobe's background processes (maybe to do with syncing documents from the cloud.. which I have zero of) that's spiking the CPU, maybe it's something else. But it sure isn't what it's supposed to be doing.

Now, when you're actively working on something, maybe that will spike the CPU and keep it there, making the machine hot. But it shouldn't do that when the apps are idle, and especially not when you aren't actually running any Adobe apps.

You can shut the Creative Cloud app down and also stop it from starting with the system.

To di that you open the CC DTA preferences by clicking the Gear icon in the upper right of the window.

And shut down the Auto Update option.

And also these options.

And finally when you have done all that shut the CC DTA down.

A busy CPU can make a computer get hot. This is by design, and is not overheating. If a computer overheats, because of a fault, it will automatically shut down.