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February 13, 2026
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P: Bring dust removal to iPad

  • February 13, 2026
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Under “Distraction Removal,” the desktop version of Lightroom has automatic detection of dust spots (and other things, but that’s not why I’m writing in):

This is an extremely useful time-saving feature.

Unfortunately I do most of my editing on the go on an iPad Pro and these edits don’t transfer over to your photos when you view them on the iPad version of Lightroom. You’re invited to “update AI edits,” where the app tells you essentially that there’s a version mismatch between the canonical photo (w/ dust removed) and the one your iPad can load (because it doesn’t support dust removal), and tells you your only choice is to take away the dust removal:

This is really bad for users and not how cloud software should work. My iPad has an M4 in it; it’s more powerful in performance terms than my desktop computer.

 

At a minimum you should allow read-only loading of dust removal on the iPad. Please implement this on the iPad!

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Nadeem28230335k4xr
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February 18, 2026

Let’s add this to the list of things that do not have feature parity between desktop and mobile.  Adobe, please add dust removal to the mobile apps.  The landscape and people masking is easy enough to make presets for.  But the lack of consistent features between platforms (dust removal, hdr/pano photo merge, etc.), you're actively pushing me closer and closer to abandoning your software.