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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
  • 372 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!

372 replies

Charlyw64
Participating Frequently
September 12, 2018
Hi John,

I think you need to differentiate between files that are imported into Lightroom CC and then keyworded - those keywords do sync back AFAIK, keywords added in Lightroom CC to files from synchronized Lightroom Classic CC collections though do not propagate either way...
johnrellis
Legend
September 12, 2018
As mentioned in the original topic, Adobe has indicated there were will be no more feature enhancements to sync with LR Classic, so in particular, they have no plans to sync keywords. But if enough people complain, maybe they'll change their mind before the next ice age.

However, comments do normally sync between LR CC and LR Classic, so something specific to your configuration is going wrong. I suggest posting a new thread in the user-to-user forum to get it sorted out: 
https://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom/lightroom-classic-cc/content
Participant
September 12, 2018


I need my clients to be able to add Comments and have the keywords they add in Lightroom CC computer version to sync with the hosted Lightroom Classic Catalog. 
Participating Frequently
September 10, 2018
Sync is not the only critical missing feature. But case sensitive keyword is useless. List of keyword in CC should be implemented. Add keyword in multiple photos in iOS should be a  etc etc
Participant
September 10, 2018
Please, Adobe, implement keyword sync between Classic and Mobile: this is a critical feature for searching and selecting images in Mobile. Sensei search is great, but it cannot cover abstract keywords that describe all sorts of non-visual aspects in images.
Inspiring
September 5, 2018
Disappointing. Totally non intuitive thinking! You would expect everything added in Mobile would sync to Lightroom CC and vice-versa. Otherwise...what's the point?
chapmand1952
Known Participant
August 29, 2018


keywords created in LR Classic do NOT sync with Lightroom CC
Antoine HLMN
Known Participant
August 16, 2018
You haven’t been naive assuming the keywords should sync. Everything editable in LR should sync. And there isn’t even a warning text box!
There is absolutely no excuse for such a huge bug.
The “technical” explanations consisting of keywords type is totall bullshit.
Participating Frequently
August 15, 2018
I too naively assumed that Keywords entered in Lightroom on my iPad would sync back to theClassic version on my Mac. Having done so for many hundreds of photos on my last trip I now find I have to do the work all over again. Frankly the split of Lightroom into various iterations is confusing and not helped by Adobe failing to make the limitation clear in anything easily accessible to the normal user. 
Inspiring
July 17, 2018
Hi Jeremy, have posted a feature request for the search issue and a problem request for the black picture issue. Keep fingers crossed 🙂