P: Allow Direct Importing images into iPad with ios 13

This is good news! Could you try a load of RAWs? I will give it a go tonight.
If they have actually sorted this why they wouldn't mention it in the release notes i don't know

SUCCESS!

I just imported 200+ jpg files from an SD card directly into LR mobile. I am using an iPad (2018) and the new LR mobile (5.0). The steps I used from the LR screen:

Add photos – From files – SD card – Select all – Open (there is a long delay at this point where nothing seems to happen. Eventually, you should see the count of all photos go up.)

 I’m anxious to hear others results. Someone should inform the product manager of the updates included in 5.0.

> an Adobe representative answer that they "would love to be able to offer direct import!"

That's Josh Haftel, he's the product manager for mobile.

Eleven, just one more than ten 🙂

How many did you import?
Will have a try tonight see what happens.

In my test, I succeeded in directly importing more than ten RAW pictures from an SD card, using "import from Files". But sadly Lightroom didn’t let me import the video files coming from my Canon G7x camera (MP4 files). I hope Adobe will allow this quickly, because the official iOS page says that the "Image Capture API" is now available : https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13/feat...

Someone post a comment on this subject on the Adobe blog, and an Adobe representative answer that they "would love to be able to offer direct import!".
It seems that iOS isn’t fully ready yet.
Cf. https://theblog.adobe.com/max-2019-ph...

Just had an update on my iPad and no surprise no mention of direct import!

I don't think that anyone still believes this problem is unknown or unfixable by Apple or Adobe. Please review my original posting from 3 months ago. During my testing of IOS 13, I discovered the same issues that David Penner described today. As I stated, the problems were reported to Apple and Adobe.

Unfortunately, I am in the same position as David - I bought the Apple tablet to edit my images in a more efficient manner. Now I find myself wondering if that Windows laptop was such a bad thing.

Clearly, this all falls back to the issue of Adobe being non-responsive to its users.

Experiencing similar frustration on the direct import of raw files into Lightroom on ipad pro/ipados 13.2.  Using the file.app browse-select-share approach, Lightroom appeared in the list of share options when 9 files were selected.  They were then successfully imported.  Share to Lightroom did not appear when many files (168) were selected.   This is not a Apple/ipados 13.2 problem because this problem does not occur for other apps, LumaFusion for example.  Abobe is very much behind the curve on this issue and not looking deeply into their own issues.  The main reason I went Lightroom Mobile and ipad route was to have this mobile functionality of importing SD cards from DSLRs without going through camera-roll and icloud which created duplicate storage and file cleanup workflow headaches.  With many competitors biting at Adobe's heals and starting to take share, I cannot understand how a competent product manager could risk letting such a fundamental workflow capability be unresolved, especially when the marketing department and market communications teams made this element one of the key brand promises of switching to this platform.  I have worked in technology development 40 years - i would bet the problem is not the engineers' ability to figure this out.  It is a rather simple problem (by evidence of other competitors figuring it out).  This is a simple priority decision that needs to be made by marketing/product management.  Apple have delivered on their side of the deal, now its time for Abode to fall into line.