P: Ability to import raw files

This is needed. The raw+jpeg isn't really the issue, that's just a hack. Directly importing the Raw photo from the SD card is the real answer. Capturing the shoot from my SD card after a day of shooting on vacation travel would allow me to flag things in comfort and get ahead before I get home.

Please hurry up LR Mobile and add this! Camera roll and Photoshop do already

First, I am fast becoming a fan of LR Mobile and the addiiton of the iPhone app is great. For a traveling photographer who shoots a lot an ideal workflow might be the following:
- traveller shoots raw + medium size jpeg
- download just jpeg to iPad to minimize memory demands
- perform edits on LR Mobile
- after the trip, download the raws to desktop LR app
- iPad jpeg edits automatically sync to corresponding raw files

Sorry. I mis-read the post. Forking back out. Please reference the new topic here: Lightroom Mobile: Please let us start our workflow on the iPad (using JPGs/EyeFi)...

I didn't merge it, but I agree that's a different request. Since it's not possible to split threads, as far as I know, might I recommend creating a thread entitled something like "Lightroom mobile: automatically sync jpeg file from mobile with matching raw file on desktop".

And FWIW, you can do something very similar using the Syncomatic plugin in the meantime.

MODERATORS: This post should not have been moved to this conversation. I'm not suggesting being able to import RAW files into the iPad. In fact, I'm against it. It makes no sense... Raw files are too big to be workable in a mobile application, and syncing them to the cloud would take far too long and use too mch data. My suggestion is to add the ability to Lightroom (not Lightroom Mobile) to be able to import RAW files that would replace existing jpgs while keeping changes and metadata intact.

Two days ago, i downloaded lightroom mobile on my ipad, but i have a problem.
If i download the raw files from my camera directly to my ipad, my ipad recognise the raw files, but lightroom mobile not... why??? (instead, if the raw file it's in one of my collections in the creative cloud, i can open this in mobile lightroom... is this an issue?

Pls, fix it, because i work and edit my raw files directly downloaded from my camera to my ipad, and i think that others photographers have the same problem...

I am trynig to Import a RAW file from an SD Card into Lightroom mobile. This IS Not working. I have an original Apple Adapter for use with an Sd Card. I am able to Import the RAW Files to the iPad but there I do. Not See the pictures just an Icon for each RAW
I tried doing this with LRmobile. But I am Not able to get acces to my RAW files neither on the SD Card nor on the IPad, nor on any other picture on my IPad. I was able to synchronize picture from my PC to the IPad. Raw and JPEG. I am using an iPad Air and iOS 7. What I am doing wrong?

I am desperately hoping for Lightroom/Lightroom Mobile to support an iPad-first workflow. In a perfect world, I would travel with only my Camera and my iPad mini (retina). I would use my EyeFi card to transfer JPGs to the iPad as I shoot, import the JPGs into Lightroom where I could cull (and hopefully one day rate/keyword) images. Then, when I'm home in front of my workstation, I could upload and sync the RAW versions of the images that survived culling while keeping changes and meta-data.

Aperture 3 (which I used for a long time before switching) has a similar feature (sans iPad app) where you can do an initial import of JPGs, cull/rate/keyword and make basic changes to the images, then import the RAW versions of only the images that survived culling, which replace the JPGs but keep all edits and meta-data intact. This can save a ton of import time and disk space (esp. since only 10% - 25% of my images survive culling.)

Adobe is so close to having a truly useful, game-changing product with Lightroom Mobile. It seems like one tiny feature added to Lightroom (the ability to swap in RAW versions of the files and keep metadata and changes intact) would let us start our workflow on the iPad and leave our laptops at home!