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P: using arrow keys to navigate through images an image gets merged with the last one

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April 20, 2026
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Arrowing through a number of images suddenly this image was overlayed with the previous one. Restarting Lightroom Desktop 9.3 on my MacBook Pro M2 Pro did not fix this. I was able to use the Versions tab to revert the image. Then I started arrowing through again and a minute later the same thing happened to a different image. At the time I wasn’t processing anything heavy on my MacBook, but the fan was running pretty fast so something was going on. A few minutes later and I now can’t duplicate the issue.

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alcdlm

Known Participant

Hello,

I’m using Lightroom Desktop since version 1 and I’m enjoying it!

Recently I installed version 9.3.

Since then I stumbled upon a few quirks never seen before.

While processing my newest photos, I noticed bugs with :

picture orientation being wrongly interpreted
cropping being forgotten
settings being corrupted (I had to copy the settings - reset the image - and paste settings to get back to the developed target result)
ghost image appearing within some photos

I found it very disturbing and untrustworthy for my photos to process..

Are those problems known and can we expect a fix soon?

Of course I would be happy to help!

Thanks for getting back to me.

Best regards,

Arnauld Le Carbonnier.

bellaneu

Participant

I have also been experiencing all of these things!

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Christian300812339wlx

Participant

@Rikk Flohr_Photography

I am suffering from this constantly on a Macbook Pro M4 Max AND on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra, both with online and offline files, on the current version of Lightroom Desktop (9.3). I work with .ARW photos from A7R IV (so very high resolution). It happens both with big cache and small cache and with lots of free SSD-space. It’s massively slowing down my editing, because if I switch too quickly between pictures with the arrow keys after doing any edits at all I risk coming back to find pictures like the above, with all edits replaced with edits from another, and even a weird overlay of the other picture, possibly denoise data applied to the wrong picture. It can only be fixed by resetting everything or Undoing back past the point where it happened (implying it is a reversible operation executed by Lightroom, not some kind of driver/hardware/external problem.)

I suspect it is related to the long-living bug that happens if you adjust for example exposure after switching from photo 1 to photo 2 but before photo 2 loads properly, typically indicated by the histogram stil showing data for photo 1. If you do that, the slider will increment on the currently selected photo 2, and photo 2 will visually change, but the histogram stays stuck on photo 1, and as soon as you switch to any other photo, the adjustment you made is applied to photo 1, while photo 2 reverts to what it was before you first switched to it. The adjustment to photo 1 is not an overwrite, but happens as if you were always on photo 1. For example:

Photo 1: Exposure +0,50
Photo 2: Exposure +0,00

Switch quickly from photo 1 to photo 2.

Before histogram updates, adjust:

Photo 2: Exposure +0,00 → +0,10

Switch to any other photo, then check photo 1 and 2. Result:

Photo 1: Exposure +0,60

Photo 2: Exposure +0,00

I mention that because this seems related, happening if making adjustments too soon after switching. But that window is pretty long sometimes, and hard to notice when it happens.

I attached a video showing the bug in action on some rejected photos! In the video I rest the mouse over the exposure slider and use the arrow keys to both quickly switch photos and adjust exposure, and then show the resulting buggy photos.

System: MacBook Pro 16-inch, Nov 2024, M4 Max, Tahoe 26.3 (25D125)
but also happens on Mac Studio M3 Ultra

Lightroom 9.3 bug video.mp4

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Greetings all,

The team is having difficulty reproducing this issue. If anyone on this thread has precise, step-by-step instructions for reproducing this failure, please post them.

Thanks!

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

NoaSophia

Participant

I just added a comment with screenshots, if that helps :)

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plaiditudeAuthor

Inspiring

I’ve seen a few posts now by others experiencing this kind of issue with settings/masks being transferred to the next photo. One thing I’ll add is that I’ve only had this happen while using my arrow keys to gravitate through the images. If I click on the next photo in the filmstrip so far that seems to be safe, but using the arrow keys is my usual way so I forget and start arrowing through and suddenly it will do it again and copy the edits. On Local there is no easy way to fix so I have to reset and then copy and paste edits from another photo and that will apply the masks and everything properly.

Another point is I don’t remember this happening if I just open Lightroom and start arrowing through the images. If I start doing any quick edits on some images like hovering over the exposure slider and arrowing up or down, or other kinds of edits, that’s when the transfer will be more likely happen, not necessarily on the next image but maybe after a few after as I arrow forwards.

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plaiditudeAuthor

Inspiring

I posted something about this as well a few days ago. For me so far it has only happened while using the arrow keys on my keyboard to move through the photos. If I click on the next photo in the bottom filmstrip with my mouse I haven’t had it happen yet but I’m always wanting to use the arrow keys. This only started happening with the latest version of LR. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling LR.

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redisred

Participating Frequently

Sometimes, when scrolling from one photo to the next, the two images combine in a bizarre way that can’t be undone except by resetting. This seems to be related to the orientation bug I also reported. Basically, the app is occasionally behaving terribly when going from one photo to the next.

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nilkes

Participant

I thought I was going crazy, but yeah, I had this on multiple photos today as well. It wasn’t just masks for me, but also crops and healing/cloning.

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Generous_view0D45

Known Participant

Similar issue on windows where if you're adjusting AI denoise levels while switching back and forth between photos, sometimes a photo's Denoise layer will get applied to a different photo, creating what looks like a double exposure effect

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Christian300812339wlx

Participant

Same thing is happening to me on MacBook Pro m4 max! Happens both on cloud photos and local photos. It also transfers remove-stuff, like healing and cloning. It really sucks with local files, because it basically deletes the actual edit. It can only be reversed by manual resetting or by ctrl-z back past the specific moment it happened.

ViTepa

Participant

While editing photos in Lightroom (cloud version), I am experiencing an issue where adjustments - including masks - are unexpectedly applied to other images.

The problem occurs during normal editing: I edit one photo, then switch to another, and notice that adjustments from the previous image have appeared there, even though I did not copy or apply them.

This has been happening frequently over the past few days and disrupts the editing process, as changes appear on photos where they were not intended.

Steps to reproduce: