Feature Requests

I am a longtime photographer for personal use with experience using free services like Picasa / Google Photos as well as Adobe Lightroom / Portfolio / Lightroom Galleries.   At present, I find critical features missing from both Myportfolio (showing Albums exported from Lightroom) as well as Lightroom Gallery.    Lightroom Gallery: There are three maddiningly-simple features missing from Gallery 1) No ability to SORT Albums. Seriously! How are these even displayed? It seems when I share an album to Gallery it gets randomly inserted along with all the other albums in the Gallery. Not by title. Not by date uploaded. WTF? This is not usable when sharing my Gallery link with family. To fix this, users should be able to organize the order with which albums are shown in Lightroom Gallery or at least to sort them by something intelligent, like the date of the album. Ideally, users could also create pages or folders of albums if they have many albums that they want to share with

我是一名旅拍摄影师。 我的工作大部分时间在户外，对iPad版lightroom的使用频率非常高。   但有一个问题一直困扰我； 我的照片处理通常会在旅途过程中先在ipad处理，等我返回工作室后再回到电脑上精细处理。 但通常我会拍摄大量照片，一般在2000张以上并且是raw格式，在每次用ipad修图时必须要导入到软件内才能开始修图，然后再导出到移动硬盘，等回到工作室又导入到电脑。 这使得我的工作流程变得极为繁琐，并且导入导出的动作浪费大量时间。   我希望ipad版lightroom能够支持挂载移动硬盘进行修图工作，而不是必须导入。 可以参考ipad版的达芬奇剪辑软件，无需将素材导入到软件。 这样既节省了设备储存空间，节省了操作时间，也简化了工作流程。   希望我的建议能够被采纳，谢谢🙏  

Currently, in the Grid view, an icon shows what the original file is; e.g. "ORF", or "NEF" or "ARW", which is helpful. However, unless the original file is in the cloud, Lightroom is only working with a Smart Preview. I get that, and it is helpful to speed things up. However, "Enhance" can only be done on an original Raw file. I understand that, and it makes sense. BUT—it would be VERY HELPFUL if, when I choose "Enhance" and the file is a Smart Preview, give me the option to "Locate Original File" and "Upload to Cloud" from within the dialogue box. The dialgue could be similar to the one in Lightroom Classic when one selects "Show in Finder" and the file is on an external drive that is not attached.

When applying presets, I'd prefer the application of the preset to happen when the preset is tapped. As another option, keep the done button but retain the preset menu rather than dropping back to the main develop menu.  I find myself using multiple presets and it's really annoying to have to reengage the preset menu every time.   Even make it a personal preference? My 2 cents.   Rich

Please create a function that can put timestamps using metadata like analog films(mobile android)

Until 2 days ago I was able to see an option to sort the photos by capture date, modified and etc. Bur from yesterday I was not able to see the option for sorting pics by capture date and I can see only filter option. Please let me know how to sort pics in my edits page by capture date.

Thank you in advance for the thoughts on this and if I'm missing a point here, please advise.After leaving Grid View and entering Detail View I would like to see the Info and especially Rating button in the "new" streamlined menu bar at the bottom of the workspace. It's distracting to go up to the top of the screen, click the 3 dots, scroll down looking for info/rating, click it, change screens to rate, then go back change the screen again to the detail/ edit screen. Much of the time as I review a shoot I like to be in Detail/Edit view and throw a quick edit on to see if I like it. If I do I like to give it a check to keep or an X. Of course I could just review in the Info/Rating view then go back. But then I'd having nothing to whine about. Thanks again, Tom

I post web albums with tons of photos ....  for group activities there's a big tension between (a) highlight the BEST PHOTOS of the team/wedding/group, and (b) include at least one or two photos of EACH participant.  I'm usually trying to do both!!    And the bummer is when you're doing (b), it means the BEST photos are hard to find.   SUGGEST:  enable an option for flagged or 4-star/5-star photos to be displayed in the grid with "double-row and column size".    WIth this feature, it'd be easy for an album to visually feature the BEST photos... really highlighting photographers best work and making the SET of photos look even better.  (And for the album-consumer, it means someone who wants the pix of THEMSELVES along with the BEST PHOTOS could choose those and download.)thx!thx!

I create shared albums for a lot of events ... a school sports team is a good example (2023-10, EPS JV Volleyball ).   These albums are great ways for people to see the images -- but I get LOTS of requests for "multi-select via checkboxes" so people can pick the SUBSET of pictures they want to download.   Current view is only eithera) one at a time (pain in the rear end) b) the ENTIRE set of images (way too many)   Please add a "checkbox select" to a corner of the images in grid view so people can choose the ones they want to download.     (you could show this on hover of any single image .. you could put an option when people click the "Download" menu at top left and offer two choices: "Select images to download" and "Download all" ... etc. etc.)

I have many albums for a variety of occasions. Often I'm needing to move files manually into these folders. However on iOS, my iPad is my primary Lightroom tool, the search albums by keyword feature is missing. (I believe it is works on desktop). This causes me to endlessly scroll every time I want to save one or more photos to an album. Please add this feature.

Filtering is a necessary condition in any reasonably large catalog.  Drop downs are effective for small lists, but Location and Keywords can get quite lenghty and are difficult to sort through as is.    Please make the filtering experience more user friendly so its possible to explore these as opposed to knowing (eg., currently if you "know" the location you can type in the first letter, if you do not, you have to scroll through an endlessly long list).

Hi,   I tend to import the raw files from my camera to my phone. However, there I only need them inside of Lightroom. It would be awesome to have a button that enables Lighroom to delete the original after it has been imported.   Cheers

The existing filter by options are useful, but not nearly sufficient.     Need to add other ninimal filters like "Year taken" and other basic filters.  As is, maintaining even a reasonably sized catalog in the app is near impossible.       "Smart filters" are ok to an extent, but the results are just unreliable, eg, search my catalog log for 2021 and  half my 2021 photo's don't show up and dozens of other photos do.    

In light room, I would like to have included in overlay options to be able to show the title of the photo.

The inability to do simple searches in the Deleted folder make this essentially useless unless one has very few deleted files.      Should be able to search on "filename" and "sync status" (since syncing deleted files cause all sorts of consternation).    

I've started using my iPad to do my initial round of rating photos when traveling, and I'd love to have the option to automatically download smart previews for my entire collection. This way, if I have an intermittent internet connection (or none at all), I can continue to go through my workflow effectively. At the moment, this works great if I have a fast and stable internet connection, but unless I've already clicked on each individual image, I don't have access to the full resolution previews when not connected to the cloud (i.e. on an airplane).   I'd love for this to be an option on both mobile & desktop apps, and allow people to choose the current behavior, download all, or set a storage limit.   Thanks!

Please could we see on iOS iPad and iPhone which albums a photo is in, in the same way that the Desktop version shows this info - that is at the bottom of the info panel. Thanks. 

It's easy to show the camera settings, lens, camera and other EXIF in Lightroom mobile, but it isn't possible to select and copy that information to the clipboard to paste into another application. Having the ability to copy and paste that data outside Lightroom would allow for easier sharing of that info on social media. Please, add this as a feature.

I primarily like to use my iPad Pro...   I have the Lightroom app installed on my ipad... I'd like to have an easy internal option within lightroom to export a STILL FRAME from a video just like I can on the desktop version..   Please add this.. Thanks!

Pixel 6/pro supports hdr image viewing. 100%. Chrome supports it and google photos probably will soon.

I am using the beta of content credentials. Much happier with its implementation in Lightroom than in Photoshop (useless for me at the moment). However... I would like to be able to choose how I am displayed in the connected social media. Would it be my name or my @3891201 by the social media?. At the moment is a bit of a chaos because for some the @3891201 is displayed and for others the full name. For Instagram or eX-Twitter, I see my @3891201. For Behance is my full name and not my @3891201. And for LinkedInn is a very strange combination of @ and my full name, but also not the @3891201. In any case, if I am not able to choose between full name and @3891201, at least I want my @3891201 in all connected social media accounts (easier to rember than my full name)

Hello all,   I have a feature request for Lightroom on iPhone and iPad: please implement the progress bars like they are also in Lr classic. An iPhone or iPad does not have a sandclock or spinning beach ball (like Mac) and there is also no fan on this devices. So you don't know how busy these are. Sometimes you don't know if the app is frozen and you have to kill it or if you just have to wait!  Progress bars for the different tasks would help.   please vote up!   thanks Sebastian 

Plss add sorting image with lens type and exposure info

I find it extremely annoying to use Stamp/Remove/Heal tool in mobile Lightroom app. When I try to mark desired area of my photo to stamp it, my finger is covering the areas I'm marking. So I don't see what I'm doing... It gets very hard especially when I want to be precise, so when I use very small brush. Very very annoying.   Why don't you update the app, so when using the brush tool with a finger, next to the zone which I touch with my finger,  a "cloud" with live preview appears, so I can see what I'm currently "brushing"?

I would like to extend the wonderful feature of being able to save images with the border so that it can be done also w multiple images. It could/should be set so that vertical/horisontal/squarded automatically get their correct dimensions/alignment so that non landscape/portrait are both treated like only landscape or vice versa!   I'd also love being able to put a white border to the fullscale saving feature...like it was in the old days. (When it also had month and year "May • 67" (super-useful when sorting old images)   don't know if this is the eight forum for improvement suggestions, if not maybe someone could help me take it to the right people!!   Regards,   Johan