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Inspiring
October 19, 2017
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P: Ability to sync Lightroom Classic keywords with the Lightroom Ecosystem

  • October 19, 2017
  • 375 replies
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Keywords do not sync correctly: When added on the mobile app (iOS), they do not appear in LR classic and not in LR Web (I deleted the new LR CC immediately, this version does not make sense to me).
Same problem into the other direction: Keywords from LR classic do not appear on the mobile app. 
Attention: At this stage the whole keywording within the iOS app should not be used!

375 replies

rwechsler
Participant
February 15, 2020

I syncronized some photos from LR Classic to LR CC including some keywords. Synchronization of these photos inclusive the keywords have been successful. All photos are available in LR CC (including the keywords).

But when I add some new keywords to the photos in LR Classic (which have been already synchronized with LR CC), the new keywords won't be synchronized with LR CC. Although these photos have been synchronized again after adding the keywords to them.

johnrellis
Legend
February 16, 2020

Unfortunately, that's a limitation of LR Classic sync. Please add your constructive opinion to this feature request:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/keyword-bug 

 

and be sure to click Vote and Follow in the upper-right corner. That will make it a little more likely that Adobe will consider implementing the feature and you'll be notified when they do.

rwechsler
Participant
February 16, 2020

Thanks, John, for your prompt answer. I added a comment and vote for the feature request.

Inspiring
December 28, 2019
I agree with all the above comments. I purchased Lightroom many years ago and kept upgrading until the subscription version came out. Then I sat for many years. Then maps stopped working. Then I started getting odd artifacts on my screen, so I updated to the subscription model. I was shocked to see that I could not syn key words. Missing this feature is huge. Like others I would like to organization on my mobile and do more detailed edit on the PC. If I can't I don't need the mobile version, so I may as well just move away from Lightroom to another organizer. Adobe please fix before I decided to move. As you know moving will be hard so once I do it I will not be coming back.

Inspiring
November 20, 2019
It is such a pity not to be able to edit, tag keywords, identify faces.... on mobile while traveling for a long period and have these synced on the computer while coming back at home. It seems so obvious. Some features are not accessible on the mobile version (starting with print) and you cannot do them based on the info you / faces tagged! And adobe has intention of implementing this ? It means adobe has no intention to allow a proper mobile + desktop workflow! This questions why I should get the expensive cloud (mobile + classic) package... I’m a customer for lightroom from the beginning and was excited to implement a mobile workflow. What a disappointment!
Is thee any turn around? Any process to get into classic the info I took hours tu plug in the mobile version? Export and re import....
Antoine HLMN
Inspiring
August 23, 2019
... so we’ll see a good LR update in October, I guess
toddf58817227
Participating Frequently
August 23, 2019
I totally agree.  I can appreciate the artificial inteiligence and the assigning objects that Lightroom recognizes, but this is not perfect by any means.  I thought one of the objectives of Lightroom is to give the user control over their catalog and have the flexibility needed for their system, not impose Adobe's thinking.  Given Lightrooms intentional limitation, i will just have to work around that, though i don't like it, simply use the mobile cc version for just showing friends and family, not for working, because despite what they say, without keywords, it's useless to use mobile for working on assets.
Inspiring
August 23, 2019
I'm using iCloud, 2TB I can use the way I want for 10€/Mo.
It works. 
With C1 I can grab a session on my second computer.

About cloud, have a read here : https://www.on1.com/products/2020-preview/

Sync services arrive at the competitor. No closed cloud. No monthly fee (at least for the software), I don't know for the service sync
john beardsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 23, 2019
Just storing your files in Dropbox-like folders (which C1, LR or any other app can do) and adopting a Bridge-style folder-based workflow isn't remotely the same as having a cloud-based mobile toolset like Lightroom iOS/Android/Web which lets you make adjustments and add (some) metadata.

Antoine HLMN
Inspiring
August 23, 2019
The cloud -despite its bug and limitations- is literally the only thing keeping me with LR. How do you work with cloud?
Inspiring
August 23, 2019
 I've switch to C1. Not perfect but the way the session works, the fact I can use it for as long I want, the way I can use my own cloud fit perfectly my needs.
Antoine HLMN
Inspiring
August 23, 2019
Exactly