P: Lightroom Mobile: iOS local storage

There is no way you can find locally stored photos. Simple as that. If you import photos from the camera, they are stored as local. The album is not marked as such. The only way to get rid of these is to reinstall the app. The same if you accidentally hit get original. There is also some “temp” space, which gets lost until reinstall if an import gets stuck. All of this has being the case since day one of Lightroom mobile on ios. 

*Maeva_Vgr see my solution posted below

I would be very careful about doing this as it sounds a lot like actually deleting photos from your library. If you have the cloud sync turned on then you might lose photos.

It was a simple fix in the end. Assuming you have a Mac, connect your iPhone and then go to your iPhone in Finder.

Select your iPhone, then go to the Files tab, and then find the Lightroom app and expand the arrow (it takes a little while to load).

Then you should see a folder named a random string of letters and numbers. If you look at the size of this folder it will be roughly the same as what your LR iOS app says it is using in local storage.

I was so fed up with the lack of a solution I just went ahead and deleted this folder using Finder. Lo and behold, it worked. All my phone storage was freed up and there was no impact on my LR library.

DISCLAIMER: I only did this one time and it worked. I have no confirmation if this is the correct way of doing things and whether there is any risk to your photos. Maybe someone from Adobe can weigh in here to confirm?

Go to Lightroom > Library > All Photos > Select the three dots to the upper right > Select > Select All Photos > Delete.

I have the same issue ! Clear cache doesn’t work, the update don’t fix this problem... so what should I do ? 

Please help me... 😭

Or you can "CLEAR CACHE" in the Local Storage setting, which is found in the App under the main settings gear icon from the main page.  How did I find this?  Because I didn't know either, and your post had me looking for a better option than trying to go through each individual album.  Cheers

 Updates to Lightroom Classic and the Lightroom Ecosystem products for Desktop, Mobile and Web were released today and contain a fix for this issue.

Please refresh your Creative Cloud application and install your update when it becomes available. Thank you for your patience.

Ben,

It happened to me too. What I found is that you can delete all the Lightroom photos in the app and free the space on your phone. Go to Lightroom > Library > All Photos > Select the three dots to the upper right > Select > Select All Photos > Delete. I don’t use the cloud service, so check if there is a different folder for those to be apart. You can also take a test picture, upload it to LR and the cloud backup. Then delete from LR folder to check of the backup one remains.

That’s the only way to get rid of them. The app is just automatically importing them. Your original photos will remain in the phone. 

Kind of, if you'd have had more account on that installed version of Lightroom on that device.

Thanks for confirming, this means that you indeed only have one account on that device.

If you tap on the cloud icon, are you still uploading anything? 
That could explain the issue.