Which Design Tools Train AI on Your Work? Canva, Figma, Adobe and Affinity in 2026

What Canva, Figma, Adobe and Affinity say about using your files to train AI in 2026, which settings are on by default, and how to turn them off.

Every big design tool now has AI features, and AI features need training data. A fair question for anyone who uploads client work, unreleased artwork or personal photos is: is my work part of that?

Here's what each company says as of October 2026, with links to their own pages. Policies change, so check the source before relying on it.

Figma

Starter and Professional plans: content training is on by default.
Organization and Enterprise: off, and it can't currently be turned on.
This has applied since 15 August 2024.

How to turn it off: an admin can switch off content training in the team's settings on Professional.

Source: Figma help centre.

Canva

Canva says it won't use your content (the text in your designs and your uploads) to improve its AI unless this is consistent with your privacy settings.

Business, Teams and Enterprise: the content setting is disabled, and that content isn't used.
Education: student content isn't used.
Free and Pro: controlled by your privacy settings. There are two separate toggles, one for your content and one for general usage data.
Canva Creators who publish templates have their template content used unless they opt out, and they're paid for it.

How to turn it off: go to canva.com/settings/privacy-preferences and switch off both AI options.

Source: Canva Trust Center.

Adobe

Adobe says it does not train its Firefly models on customer content, and that Firefly is trained on Adobe Stock and public-domain material.

In June 2024 a forced update to Adobe's terms caused an uproar, because the wording seemed to allow access to user content. Adobe clarified that it wasn't using customer content for Firefly training. PetaPixel covered it at the time.

One caveat: Adobe Stock contributors' images are used for Firefly training. If you sell on Adobe Stock, that applies to you.

Affinity

Affinity, now owned by Canva, says plainly that "your work in Affinity isn't used to train AI" and that files stay on your device. Its AI features run through Canva, so if you use them, Canva's settings above apply to what you send.

Source: Affinity's September 2026 update notes.

Tools with no AI to train

Some tools sidestep the question because they don't have generative AI at all:

Procreate has pledged not to add generative AI to its apps.
GIMP, Inkscape and Krita are open source and don't collect your files.
Bitgrain, which I've been building, has no models in it. Every effect is a classical algorithm, and the editor processes your images in your browser rather than on a server. Your images are never used as training data.

A five-minute checklist

Figma users on Professional: check the team's AI setting and turn off content training if you don't want it.
Canva users on Free or Pro: open privacy preferences and switch off both toggles.
Client work: check your contract. Some clients now forbid uploading their assets to tools that train on them.
Unreleased work: keep it in tools that process locally, or that clearly don't train.
Re-check every few months. These policies have changed several times since 2023.

Why this matters

For a hobbyist, it might not. For a freelancer, it can be a contract issue. For artists, it's often personal: nobody wants their own style fed into a tool that competes with them. The good news is that the settings exist. You just have to go and turn them off.