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

Thanks for your answer but the problem I have, is that the people here are talking about something completly different, so my request is unheard and stuck inbetween forever. : (
I'm not interested in just importing Live Photos. I want them work like on an Apple device. It seems people here don't care about that Lightroom splits the Live photos in one JPEG and one video file. That's not the way it's supposed to work. Not for me, actually. It should work like in photos app and there should be an option to reimport them back to Apple photos without getting broken.

I wasn't the one who merged, but between us... merging is a good thing. The more votes a request has, the more attention it tends to get.

I'm afraid your request for an official statement may not be granted though, because Adobe doesn't pre-announce what they're working on.

My thread is completley off topic because somebody who wasn't able to completly read my request or understand it, decided falsly it belongs here. So is there anybody that can help me out here? Please.

I didn't know that Affinity is working on their own "Lightroom" version. As they make very good products this are very, very good news. If they fullfill all my Live Photo dreams I'm the first to make the switch. Thanks for the information, Chris.

Hopefully it's more a matter of Adobe not fully understand the problem (and maybe they think they already support Live Photos and that they just don't support HEVC Videos), without realizing they don't actually truly support Live Photos yet. But yes, where it's been 3 years it is a bit concerning. With Serif (the makers of Affinity) supposedly working on their own Lightroom competitor which is almost guaranteed to support all of Apple's native formats 100% from day one, I imagine Adobe will want to beat them to the punch rather than having to catch up once Serif releases that app. Whether it's Serif or Adobe starts supporting Apple's native features, and Apple does a 180 and improves Apple Photos for pro users (very doubtful), hoping it eventually there is one app that does it all.

Sometimes it's very hard to understand the priorities of Adobe's Lightroom developers. There's almost every month an camera raw update for every new dslr format but some really wide spread formats like HEVC are still not supported despite the fact that their other products like the Media Encoder are supporting it. It seems like the don't communicate that much internally. Weird.

Despite the fact that Live Photos were introduced almost three years ago and the iPhone is a very popular camera device also for semi-professionals and professionals, Lightroom still shows no signs to implement this feature with native support. And if you search Google on this topic, there are almost no useful results.  So my expectations that Live Photos will ever be fully supported by Lightroom are very, very low. I really love working with Lightroom but I don't have the time nor passion to use more than one photo editing app. And since Live Photos are a big part of my portfolio, together with SLR photos maybe I'll take a closer look to alternatives. 

To others who read the Adobe suggestion to, "Choose “Formats” and select “Most Compatible” to capture iPhone photos in a compatible format" I would not recommend that as that will change those HEIC files to be exported as JPG and the the Live Photos will simply be converted to h.264 videos meaning it will be a normal video versus a Live Photo, and doesn't support 4K at 60 fps nor 1080p at 240 fps. So that suggestion does not help in supporting native Live Photos. 

Yes, sometimes companies like Adobe don't fully understand all the nuance of Apple specific features like companies such as Pixelmator, Serif, and such that fully embrace those technologies. I have to think that the engineers do understand, and its more just many forum members who don't have the latest Apple devices don't understand exactly how these tech items work and thus how to fully support them. I'm very hopefully Adobe will fully support these items, but may just require more people to reiterate we need full support for these items rather than just supporting Importing and then moving on to another item on the checklist.

Patrick, yes I agree, that it sounds like currently Lightroom doesn't fully support Live Photos, where one can take a default Live Photo on a new iPhone, and export from say Apple Photos on Mac and import into Classic or CC, be able to hover over and see the Live Photo in it's native format, and then be able to export back to Apple Photos some day without any loss of features. The problem it seems is if one looks at the headlines, on new features in Lightroom one would think Live Photos is fully supported, (other than video files (HEVC) which is different from Live Photos, and thus people may migrate their Live Photos to Lightroom and then realize it's not fully supported and people won't keep asking for Live Photos in masses because people will assume it's already supported fully even though it seems to not be. Also to not, HEIC files are not compatible with Lightroom Classic or Lightroom CC on Mojave, which means HEIC support will break for all users upgrading to the latest macOS version next month so hopefully a fix is in the works for that issue.