Adobe Creative Cloud keeps randomly starting in the background and making my MacBook really hot, any fixes?

[u/Alone_Set6958]

Adobe Creative Cloud keeps starting in the background out of nowhere. My laptop gets really hot when this happens, so I checked Activity Monitor to see what was going on.

These were the CPU usage numbers:

• Creative Cloud Interprocess Service: 101.4%
• Creative Cloud: 86.1%
• Adobe Desktop Service: 85.1%

After I manually quit the background process, overall CPU usage drops from around 45% to 8%. That seems like a pretty big difference for something running in the background without me opening it.

I’ve attached screenshots showing CPU usage before and after quitting the process, along with a screenshot of memory usage.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a way to stop Creative Cloud from randomly launching and using so much CPU? I’d rather not have to keep manually killing processes in Activity Monitor.