Remove Adobe Firefly Content Credentials from a download

What Adobe states Firefly embeds

Adobe’s Content Credentials overview says credentials are applied automatically to content generated on Adobe Firefly and its APIs, supporting transparency for generative AI ( Adobe Help). Adobe’s Firefly Services security fact sheet adds that the Firefly API attaches a Content Credentials manifest to generated content, stores a cryptographic hash with the manifest in the Content Credentials Cloud, and lists typical fields: tools used, whether the asset was wholly generated or combined with other content, and a tamper-evident signature ( Firefly Services fact sheet). That manifest is the AI metadata AI provenance mode targets.

Prompts are not copied into those credentials. The same fact sheet says text prompts are never included in automatically generated Content Credentials. If you need to hide a prompt, it would have to live in some other metadata this tool lists — inspect first.

File vs cloud credential

Firefly keeps two related objects. The embedded manifest travels inside the download you can Inspect here. The Content Credentials Cloud copy lets Adobe recover credentials if someone strips the file. Rewriting your local export does not log into Adobe’s service or erase that cloud record. Validators with network access may still associate the image hash with Firefly history.

Photoshop’s export dialog can attach credentials, publish them, or both — see Photoshop Generative Fill metadata when the file came from a Generative Fill export rather than firefly.adobe.com.

Strip workflow

Save the Firefly download as JPEG, PNG, or WebP. Drop it in the tool above with AI only (AI provenance) selected. Press Inspect only to confirm a C2PA chip. Press Clean this file and download when the After column no longer lists Content Credentials. Upload that -cleaned file if you still want to publish without embedded credentials — knowing platforms may label from other signals. If you post to LinkedIn, the manifest is what its small CR icon is built from; see what the LinkedIn Content Credentials icon shows.

For byte-level detail on JUMBF / caBX, use remove C2PA. For the wider definition of AI tags including IPTC DigitalSourceType, see what is AI metadata.

What this does not do

• Delete Adobe’s cloud Content Credentials entry.
• Remove pixel watermarks or make Firefly output “undetectable.”
• Force Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn to drop a label on a live post.
• Open PSD, video, or audio — export a still image first.

Questions

Does Firefly always attach C2PA to downloads?

Adobe documents automatic credentials on Firefly and API outputs. Inspect your export to see this file’s manifest.

Are prompts in the credential?

Adobe states prompts are not included in auto-generated Content Credentials.

Does stripping the file erase Adobe’s cloud record?

No. Only the local file bytes are rewritten here.

Is Generative Fill the same page?

Same C2PA technology, different export workflow — use the Photoshop guide for PSD → Export As paths.

Adobe Firefly content credentials are the signed manifest in a Firefly JPEG or PNG. This page strips that manifest from the file. A copy kept in Adobe's cloud is a different object.