P: LrM 11.5 (Android) Snapping behavior in cropping adjustments after 11.5 update

Hi everyone,

Thank you for all the reports, videos, and feedback about the Crop tool snapping behavior on Lightroom for Android.

An update addressing the overly restrictive snapping behavior was released in Lightroom for Android 11.5.01. Since then, additional Lightroom updates have also been released, and the current version is 11.5.20.

If you’re still using an earlier version, please update Lightroom through the Google Play Store and test the Crop tool again.

After updating, you should no longer encounter the original behavior where snapping could make small crop adjustments difficult or prevent you from positioning the image precisely where intended.

If you’re already running 11.5.20 and are still experiencing overly aggressive snapping, please reply here with:

• Your Android device/model
• Android version
• A short screen recording showing the behavior

That will help us determine whether you’re seeing a remaining case different from the issue addressed in the earlier update.

Thanks again to everyone who reported this and helped us investigate it.

Best,
Anshul Saini

I'll try to leave my criticism in a constructive manner - Lord, help me. There's nothing about this “snap feature" that I find useful. Instead I am now left to “wrestle" with the app - many times getting it almost where I want it then it “snaps" again - back to square 1. Nobody wanted this. Remove it from the app and lets move forward.

This is a terrible update. I am going to crop in my phone before even going to LR. What were they thinking?

This is absolutely unacceptable. It went back to usable for about 24 hours then the problem returned. Does no one beta test these updates?

How can you make a change that prevents CROPPING? Not only does it lock in to the new red guidelines, often it prevents moving the frame vertically at all. 

More and more open source by the day for me...

This is the Lightroom Classic forum. Your question should be asked in the Lightroom Ecosystem forum

https://community.adobe.com/questions-675/p-lrc-15-5-video-files-issues-windows-1635342
 

Idk why they added it and assumed photographers wouldnt want a way to shut it off. Also i cannot figure out how to add this to a requested feature the only option i can find is "ask a question".

To elaborate, while cropping an image on mobile lightroom, it will snap to the horizontal center and vertical center if you crop it close enough. This is extreamly frustrating to work around. It is extreamly rare that a raw is perfectly centered and super common that it is ever so slightly off center. I seriously have no clue what exec thought it would be a good idea to leave this feature untogglable for mobile. Decicions like this make me want to leave adobe entirely.

Holy shi*t.  Turn. This. Off. 

It makes the app unusable and whatever idiot thought it was a good idea should be moved to the cafeteria. 

This is such an annoying feature. How come this is implemented and can't be turned off??? Makes mobile editing unusable at the moment.

Who wants pictures cropped and snapped to the exact middle? How can a photography app not consider things like the rule of thirds… I'm a bit speechless .

This guidelines so bothering me when cropping the image. It suddenly make adjustments to center which i don't want. Then when it goes to center, it can't to move. Please fix it immediately 

Its terrible. It almost makes the app unusable as i can't fine tune my crops. Not happy at all.