I'm a Editorial Designer I use Adobe PS, ID, AI, etc for my living, its not a hobby. Like many Designers I have to use custom plugins for font servers and clould based apps via my main employer/client. Which means being tied to old versions longer than I'd like (same goes for Apple OS). Today for the 2nd time on opening a document I have this super unhelpful alert appear (see link). As a paid up 'all apps' subscriber, I have no words.... Anyone else having the same? Any easy way to stop this? OR do I resort to deleting the Adobe Genuine spyware which I assume is the guilty party? Thanks for Reading!
Thats interesting, I'm on PS 2021 so yet to witness that!. Thanks for letting me know. As it is only appearing via Photoshop, not my other outdated apps. Thanks for the reply!
You could install the latest version and still keep Photoshop 2022, just make sure when you install the newer version and see a message about deleting the older version, you uncheck that.
I do agree, however, that all the pop-ups are very annoying to say the least.
They really are!, the alert is enormous, a good quarter of my display. I can deal with a lil' pop up. Its similar to when Adobe suspects a non licensed version, very invasive.
Adobe is aggressively pushing users to only run current versions and not older ones. I have not seen this popup but I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they completely disallow running anything that is out of support.
I assume It's for data mining purposes given the current AI bubble. They need to scrape as much human creativity as possible to build their AI models and they've already been caught lying about where they get it from. These obnoxious popups have given me the push I need to start looking into open source alternatives to Adobe products.
I was reading about the 'credit' situation for using the 'ai' features? I upgrade in next two weeks (whooop), so I can see all this for myself. I haven't tried Affinity but I think that would have been my first stop if I wasn't tied to Adobe, though it being sold to Canva is concerning. Thanks for reading!
Spent 25 minutes with tech support, they kept saying the fix is to uninstall the old version and install the newest version, and that there is no way to turn off the popup message. They are escalating it.
And like many here, I prefer to use that older version as anything newer will not support the thousands of postscript fonts I want to use and 40 years of work would get mangled. I've avoided upgrading my OS for the same reason.
You may not have a choice, if anything goes haywire. Older versions will not be available for download and may not be usable, if activation is cut off.
That's the point where a lot of PS users start evaluating the alternatives. Many of which are still one time buys, not subscription. There's no features in the newer version that I want, either. Gen AI is of no interest to me!
I've just started getting this too, it's really annoying, especially as if I try to upgrade it tells me my hardware (graphics presumably) is not compatible with the newer version!! So I can't upgrade even if I wanted to.
The switch in Apple hardware from intel is going to effect a lot of people also, cc2022 ceasing support feels a bit soon, when there are alternatives for photoshop for many. I was an earlyish adopter to apple silicon and adobe took their sweet time, I've had to run in rosetta in Indesign since 2022 for reasons beyond my control, so to end support feels a bit much.
Adobe still supports Intel Macs with Photoshop 2024 and most likely will continue support for Intel Macs until Apple doesn't support them any longer, which could be the next macOS release, but hopefully not and Intel users will get a few more macOS releases.
This has nothing to do with AI. Already, Camera RAW won't work with older graphics cards. Period. Just like Microsoft cutrting off support for older PCs.
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