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Adobe Acrobat desktop release notes
Last updated on
Oct 1, 2025
Find out about the latest updates, new features, and bug fixes in recent Acrobat desktop releases.
September 2025
Feature updates
- Acrobat shows a dot indicator and Your response is ready notification when you close the AI Assistant panel while it’s generating a response.
- Acrobat prompts you to try suggested highlights. It auto-highlights key content based on reading behavior to support easier review and insight exploration with the AI Assistant.
- The new prompt bar on the Acrobat Studio home page provides access to tools, file searching, and image generation. Ask for AI-powered answers and insights from your documents across Acrobat, Express, and PDF Spaces.
- PDF Spaces names are now editable, with a visible border and a tooltip indicating the field is selectable.
- Source files are displayed in a compact layout within the Files panel, which has an adjustable panel width for better control.
- File uploads to PDF Spaces are supported during AI Assistant chats for real-time collaboration.
- Entire folders from Adobe cloud storage can be added to a PDF Space collection without selecting files individually.
- Individual files or notes in PDF Spaces can be shared, with comments providing focused feedback.
- The SharePoint connector allows direct file additions to PDF Spaces without switching apps.
August 2025
Feature updates
- Use PDF Spaces to organize, summarize, and share PDF content in a smarter way. Easily work with teammates or classmates on projects, sales pitches, or marketing stories using PDF Spaces.
- Ask the AI Assistant to directly complete the key tasks in your document, like Rotate page left, Rotate page right, Delete pages, Extract pages, Convert to PDF, Scan & OCR, Print pages, Protect a PDF, Compress a PDF, Create a PDF, Fill & Sign, and Share. For other tools, you get step-by-step guidance with quick-access buttons.
- Select content in your PDF and choose Image ideas from the context menu to view relevant visuals from Adobe Stock, powered by Adobe Express.
- Select Read out loud from the global bar, choose a premium voice, and start listening. The premium online voices that sound more natural than system defaults.
- Discover help easily in Acrobat. The search bar now shows the text Find tools, topics, or help, making it easier to search for help articles without leaving your document.
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