P: Support for importing Live Photos (iOS 9, iPhone 6s)

I notice that LRC imports iPhone LIVE shots as a full res photo, followed by the lower res first video frame, followed by the 2-second video. I guess this is the best way to handle LIVE shots in what is essentially a professional photo management app. But I have to alway delete the middle low-res first frame. It would be nice to have an option to not import this.
But it would be really nice to have the Lightroom mobile app able to import and properly display the 2-second videos which really are only the file size of a typical RAW shot. I use LIVE shots in scenic photos because it gives an excellent illusion of moving water and foliage, which look amazing on my iPad in PHOTOS, but bland in the Adobe LR app. I think this would be a really exciting advance for Adobe Lightroom!

I already have given up every hope that Adobe will come along with a real solution. It seems like they really don't care anymore. So all my hopes are right now on Affinity, it's not unlikely that they'll release a Lightroom killer as they make really useful photo software for mac people. Affinity, I hope you hear me??! ; )

Also, yes I have the "Automatic" setting enabled in iOS Settings > Photos. LR Classic CC still does not even "see" a large number of the Live Photos (that simply don't show up in the import dialog) and the ones that do show up are imported as a jpeg with no video.

At this point it is completely ridiculous that LR does not support Live Photos. I'm not even talking about "full" support in terms of treating them as a single file. Personally I think it's debatable and subjective whether that is actually better than separate files. What I'm talking about is the lack of support for HEVC and suggesting users go back to an older file format to gain compatibility with LR rather than doing the right and logical thing and adding support for new / current formats into the software.

How ridiculous is it that they are pushing cloud as the future yet their mobile app completely breaks Live Photos if using the most up to date file format (which has now been out for 16+ months at this point).

EDIT: This gets even more ridiculous (yes I used that work again, it's fitting) when you see that HEVC has been supported since October but somehow Live Photos using that format are still stripped of the video portion in Lightroom Mobile and we're stuck with just the HEIC.

https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/lightroom-cc/kb/heic-files-support.html


EDIT 2: So far the only way I've found to import HEVC based Live Photos into Lightroom Classic CC desktop app is 

1. Sync Photos to Photos.app (AirDropping them or using Capture to transfer to Mac results in HEIC only)
2. Select the Live Photos in the Photos.app grid view
3. File > Export > Export Unmodified ...
4. Put them somewhere on the Mac drive
5. Import them into LR as .MOV files

SatishT, I get that you're not in control of what the developers do but going BACKWARDS in the photo format on our phones just to make them compatible with LR is ridiculous. Also ridiculous is that apparently an OLD version of LR supports HEVC but newer versions do not? That's insane.

Google Photos is no alternative to Adobe Lightroom Classic (to me). Maybe an alternative to Apple Photos but that's it. Lightroom is a really great app where all your images come together and you finetune them with professional tools not just filters. That's the reason why it's so important, that Lightroom can handle all of your media files (at least photos) because that's the place where they all come together. There you filter out, do edits and fine tuning and at the end export them to whatever you want. In my case Apple Photos but Google Photos would be great as well.
Only problem: The lack of support of Apple Live Photos from beloved Lightroom interrupts this otherwise frictionless workflow. And this is a shame because Lightroom constantly adds support for new camera file formats but leaves the good old Live Photo completely out. Tell us why, Adobe! Why?!

Currently users are unable to migrate all their photos from Photos to Lightroom since many formats are not fully supported such as Live Photos.
Live Photos can be visualized in Google Photos so it does not look like it is an Apple issue...
Please add full support for Live Photos.

With the Android cloning this feature, e.g. Samsung having motion photos, it becomes even more important for Adobe product folks to wrap their heads around the photo+video package.  Just clone the way Apple does it folks!:)

I want Adobe to take my money, but Google Photos has much better backup and restore solution for me.  I was able to backup a Live Photo to Google Photos and restore the photo back to my iPhone exactly like original.  There're other usability details (like swipe to go back, swipe down on picture to close) in the Google Photos apps that are better as well.