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Inspiring
October 27, 2017
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P: (android): Choose which folders to Auto Add new photos

  • October 27, 2017
  • 28 replies
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When using the Auto Add new photos feature now Lightroom Mobile searches in every folder in the device. I'd like to choose which folder to look for. I don't want Lightroom sync WhatsApp images.

28 replies

Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 12, 2021

This is already possible on Android, so hopefully it'll come to iOS before too long.

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Inspiring
February 11, 2021

When using the Auto Add new photos feature now Lightroom Mobile searches in every Camera roll album in the device. I'd like to choose which album to look for. I don't want Lightroom sync WhatsApp images.

Inspiring
February 7, 2021

Anyone who knows if this will be available on iOS also?

Inspiring
January 3, 2021

I continued waiting and was extremely happy when this was kntroduced. Thank you Adobe, you got a true fan and a power user from here! It's the only picture service I use now.

Also this feature could be improved by introducing still a bit more selective auto-upload where one could have possibility to select different upload locations for different Lightroom albums. But the feature already now works quite well for me. To have your photos backed up and ready for post processing, the only thing what is needed is to start Lightroom mobile every once in a while. 

There is a minor bug though: for some reason couple of photos fails to upload and add to lightroom catalog from my phone. Would be nice to know which photos so that I could delete those. Now the upload always finishes with "XX photos added, 3 photos failed to be added". And the number might grow still.

dedreiix
Participating Frequently
January 3, 2021

I already stopped using Lightroom. So they came too late with this feature for me.

sstretchh
Participating Frequently
January 3, 2021

@anthc you are correct ! Last I used it this feature was not there.... Thanks for posting and letting us all know ! 

Participating Frequently
January 3, 2021

I think they've fixed it!

Go to Preferences > Auto Add. Then you can choose device folders. At least since I started using it again in December 2020
Inspiring
April 6, 2020
Limiting the photo import to specific folders would definitely reduce clutter and annoyance. Can you help us out, Adobe?
Inspiring
April 6, 2020
Please allow us to exclude folders on auto-add! It's such a pain in the arse deleting all the crap that comes through whatsapp and messenger. Now more than ever. Google photos has it. 
dedreiix
Participating Frequently
April 1, 2020
How can this still be missing if the requests are two years old? 😞

Im tired of removing all unwanted whatsapp images and stuff like this from my lightroom library.
Please add this simple feature now.