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P: Arrow keys keep on speeding through images without touching

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
November 12, 2025
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When I want to skip through hundreds or thousands of photos in Lightroom Classic (Version 15.0.1) in the film strip I mostly get this very annoying problem: after holding the arrow key to the right or left for a few seconds it doesn't stop anymore to speed through the images though I'm no more holding the arrow key. Sometimes it's going on for "just" a couple of hundred further photos and sometimes even through thousands of photos until the very last photo in the strip. I can't even stop it.

This first started three months ago when I updated on a new MacBook. On my old Macbook this never happened in years.
Does someone got an Idea to fix this bug?

macOS

photocycling

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This also happens to me on a MBP 16 inch i7 on LrClassic 15.4.1, however I dont have pro-motion, refresh rate is on 60Hz.

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Andy Buscemi

Participant

Exact same bug on my MacBook Pro M3 Max / Tahoe. When I hold the left or right arrow in Library Loupe view to move through images, it keeps racing through dozens / hundreds of shots after I've already released the key. It makes culling essentially impossible for my workflow...

Regarding other workarounds in this thread - turn ProMotion off and bug is gone so at least there’s that - but turn promotion back on and issues comes right back.

Repeatitively turning on / off promotion to get Lightroom's keyboard navigation to behave isn't really a workaround I can live with long term...please address.

MacBook Pro M3 max, macOS Tahoe 26.5.2, Lightroom Classic 15.4.1

Claire H.

Community Manager

Hi @Andy Buscemi, Welcome to the Lightroom Community forum! To better help you with this issue, we would like a few more details. Can you send your system info and a numbered list of the exact steps needed to replicate it? You can find your system info by going to Help > System Info, copying and pasting it into a text file, and attaching it here. Thanks! ^CH

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Andy Buscemi

Participant

steps to reproduce:

1.) Open LR Classic 15.4.1 with refresh rate set to promotion
2.) Be in Library loop mode, single image view
3.) Hold and arrow key left or right and then release (bug present scrolls through 100+ images following release of the arrow key)

system info from LR:

Lightroom Classic version: 15.4.1 [ 202606201310-b9f148a4 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en-US
Operating system: Mac OS 26
Version: 26.5.2 [25F84]
Application architecture: arm64
Logical processor count: 16
Processor speed: NA
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.0.213

Power Source: Plugged In, 100%
Built-in memory: 49,152.0 MB
Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 148.4MB / 38,338.5MB (0%)
Real memory available to Lightroom: 49,152.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 3,520.2 MB (7.1%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 432,514.4 MB
Memory cache size: 3,121.0MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 18.4 [ 2608 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 1424MB / 24575MB (5%)
Camera Raw real memory: 1421MB / 49152MB (2%)

Cache1:
NT- RAM:0.0MB, VRAM:0.0MB, Combined:0.0MB

Cache2:
m:3,121.0MB, n:0.0MB

U-main: 137.0MB

Standard Preview Size: 3456 pixels
Displays: 1) 3456x2234

Graphics Processor Info:
Metal: Apple M3 Max
Init State: GPU for Export supported by default
User Preference: Auto
Enable HDR in Library: OFF
GPU for Preview Generation: Auto (S5_37)

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom Classic
Library Path: /Users/andybuscemi/Local Docs - MBPM3/Lightroom/Danielle and Bryan/Danielle and Bryan.lrcat
Settings Folder: /Users/andybuscemi/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

Installed Plugins:
1) AdobeStock
2) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in
3) Flickr
4) Imagen plugin
5) JPEGmini
6) Luminar 4
7) Nik 8 HDR Efex
8) Plugin Parameters
9) Topaz Photo AI

Config.lua flags:

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soylent2

Participant

I’m encountering this bug as well on my MacBook Pro M5 Pro on Tahoe. Only happens in the loupe view. Grid view behaves normally.

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Diego Cerutti

Participant

I was able to solve it on my M1 and M5 Mac by disabling promotion refresh rate in display settings. If you put it to 60hz it goes away. Might work as temporary work around.

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billmoree

Participant

This has been happening to me as well for quite a while now.
It started after a Lightroom Classic update, and I assumed that it is a bug that would get fixed soon. But this has been going on for too long, and it is making LR difficult to use.

Macbook Pro 16 2021, 64GB Memory, 8TB SSD, MacOS Tahoe 26.5.1.
Only normal Adobe updates and MacOS updates have changed since before this behavior started.

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Diego Cerutti

Participant

Try changing the display refresh rate from pro-motion to 60hz. This has fixed the issue for me. It’s a temporary workaround but at least you can scroll normally.

Claire H.

Community Manager

Hi everyone, our team has reproduced this issue and is investigating a fix. If you believe others may also benefit from this, please encourage them to like or share their information in the replies. The more context and support, the better. I appreciate your patience! ^CH

BWPNYC

Participant

I’m having the problem as well and find that the only thing that stops it is if I hit esc and the touchpad of my MacBook Pro simultaneously.

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jeffreym

Known Participant

Purge the cache in the Preferences > Performance settings and it should return to proper behavior.

Jeremiah Hawkins

Participant

I just tested removing the cache and the issue persisted. I confirmed that the cache folder was empty in the Finder.

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jeffreym

Known Participant

well, that’s interesting. I’ve had this issue for a few weeks and finally found this thread and decided to try and do more testing, since it hasn’t been misbehaving on two other Macs I’ve tested. I think it must be a bug that crops up under particular conditions, but they may not be easily identified. It went away as soon as I cleared the cache. But maybe there was a corruption that the cache clearing happened to clear up. The issue was there even in safe mode. I moved the installation with the issue to another Mac to test and it did not occur. I tested my other Mac that I use when on the road, which is configured almost like a clone of my main MacBook Pro, and it was not present. I thought perhaps my previews database part of the issue. It’s huge, as my catalog spans more than 10 decades of image files close to 1M images. If this little cache clearing hadn’t done the trick I was going to remove the Previews database and then if that didn’t work, try old catalog backups in Time Machine. It’s a really frustrating problem.

Jeremiah Hawkins

Participant

Workaround: Open System Settings… > Keyboard > slide Key repeat rate to off

This will turn off all repeating characters in macOS but it prevents this bug from occurring unless you quickly press the arrow key many times in a row.

@Anshul_Saini, if you wish to reproduce this issue, go to the Library view, select fit, and then press and hold an arrow key (with any key repeat rate set other than off). After you release the key, Lightroom will continue to scrub through photos.

Claire H.

Community Manager

Hi @Jeremiah Hawkins, Thanks for sharing your workaround! I would like to encourage the community to comment and like if it works for them. As for replicating this issue, could you also send a screen recording if you are seeing it? We are still trying to replicate this internally. Thanks again! ^CH

markfro73

Participant

I have been having this same very annoying issue for a while now, too, since before I upgraded to Tahoe. Adobe has been ignoring what seems to be a known issue, and it definitely affects my productivity and overall trust in the product.

markfro73

Participant

The same issue applies to using the trackpad. When scrolling through my list of collections of on the left, a gesture up or down often sees the scroll continue all the way to the top, while my fingers never left the pad.

Anshul_Saini

Community Manager

Hi @markfro73 @corgicorgicorgicorgi,

Thanks for the detailed reports. I checked internally, and I’m not able to reproduce this on macOS Tahoe 26.4.1 (M1 Max). Also, there is currently no bug logged for this specific behavior.

To move this forward, we need to isolate whether this is coming from Lightroom or system-level input handling.

Please help confirm:

• Boot into Safe Mode and test with only Lightroom running
• Does the issue happen 100% consistently or randomly?
• Does similar behavior occur outside Lightroom (Finder, text fields, etc.)?

Also check for any background apps or utilities (keyboard tools, trackpad enhancers, tablet drivers) that are running in the background, and if closing them one by one changes/ stop the behavior.

Once we have that clarity, I can take this forward with the product team.

Regards,
Anshul Saini

corgicorgicorgicorgi

Participant

Is it still doing this on LR Classic 15.3 + Tahoe?

sharonpacker@mac.com

Participating Frequently

With the latest update, I’m having the same issue with Lightroom. the right arrow no lower advances photos or suddenly it skips several. And LR will not save my graphic watermark.

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