P: Choose between previous layout and new layout

If you really want to improve the user experience think about those things: 

- no mass copying of photo orientation (not cropping but 90° turns of the whole image)
- no mass "auto settings"

- no mass "store locally"

- no mass "update AI masks"

- no "jump to album" feature when searching a photo or even any info where this photo is located

- crop tool is "unlocked" in most situations, used to be always "locked" (which I found more useful), but locked by default in some cases (no consistency here)

- Uploads/Downloads only happening when the screen is on, so annyoing, I created a 6h lowres black video I can play to keep the device running

- no checking of likes or granting access to shared albums with the "use mobile data" switched off, it's about huge amounts of data, downloading / uploading original files, granting access to a shared album is not going to waste lot of mobile data

- no option to convert "likes" into "picks" or anything that can be filtered

- refusing to edit a photo because it can't download the smart preview with "mobile data: off" while it says at the same time the original full file is available on the phone (as it was just imported and uploaded a few minutes ago on this device)

It always opens at "all photos" (the automatic album I used the least until the latest update). 

I would like it to open on the old start page showing my album / folder structure, but that does not exist anymore. 

Even if that would work, I don't want to start in the last album, I want to start on a useful front page with my folder structure I created in LR. Latest used album could be an optional autoalbum at the top, but the main and most useful part is the folder structure I created.

@Wurstkrapfen 

"Lr now always shows the newest photos when starting, no matter what it is, even if it's the latest nude shoot. "

It's not supposed to do that. LrM is supposed to open at exactly the same place as it was when it was previously closed. That is certainly the case for me, and I've checked it on LrM on iOS, iPadOS and Android. In all cases it works as I'd expect it to work.

So, if you closed LrM while that latest nude shoot was selected, then that's what you should expect to see when you restart the app. 

A lot has changed. 

Lr now always shows the newest photos when starting, no matter what it is, even if it's the latest nude shoot. 

No more starting in your own created album structure starting page, instead you need to scroll through a page of useless folders first until your structure appears (after quickly hiding the nudes). 

No going back to where you came from, it always starts on the top of the list. 

Only user experience improvement I see is the black flashing image I just edited, rest has gotten more complicated. 

It seems like whoever come up with this new design didn't actually use the product or talk to customers. 

The new update is horrible, makes the experience so much worse. Specifically separating out mobile photos from LR photos and not letting you easily scroll through mobile photos to select one. 

Your designers really dropped the ball on this one. Please revert to the previous version and get a new product team. 

I feel like the new layout is very inefficient. I don't want all of my photos taken to be uploaded to lightroom, so I don't love that now ALL photos are available in lightroom and I have to sort through them once more. Also, you used to be able to select a photo, make your edits, then swipe to the next photo. Now you have to exit out of the edit and select the next to open, and so on and so forth. Not a big deal if you're editing one or 2, but absolutely a time suck when you're going through 200+ photos. I understand the ease of having photos more readily accessible, but would love to have the option to still only import and edit the way it used to fuction. Would also love a batch edit function. This new update is killing me. 

It's my understanding that the changes are principally intended to cater for those potential users who are reluctant to automatically import images into LrM from their device's Camera Roll (iOS/iPadOS) or Gallery (Android). I'm not sure what device you are using, but the principal remains the same. At the bottom of the screen on the left is the new Device/Gallery tab, and when using that tab the user is presented with a view of the images in the Camera Roll/Gallery. From there they can review the images on their device and can selectively delete or edit them. Choosing to edit them will automatically import them into the main LrM app (so would be synced to the cloud), but the thumbnail remains in the Camera Roll/Gallery with an indicator that it has been edited in LrM. At the moment LrM on Apple devices does not support swiping through the Camera Roll images when editing (you can when simply viewing), but I believe that editing swipe-through is possible on Android devices.

However, If that functionality is of no interest to you (it isn't to me), then ignore the Device/Gallery tab and instead use the middle Lightroom tab at the bottom of the screen. That operates almost the same as when using the app before the update (and the app will remember where you were the next time you open it). There are some UI changes, not all of which have been well received (including by me), but in the main using that Lightroom tab will let you work just the same as you did before the update.

But this new layout literally takes me longer to edit than before. It's much less efficient.

I feel like the new layout is very inefficient. I don't want all of my photos taken to be uploaded to lightroom, so I don't love that now ALL photos are available in lightroom and I have to sort through them once more. Also, you used to be able to select a photo, make your edits, then swipe to the next photo. Now you have to exit out of the edit and select the next to open, and so on and so forth. Not a big deal if you're editing one or 2, but absolutely a time suck when you're going through 200+ photos. I understand the ease of having photos more readily accessible, but would love to have the option to still only import and edit the way it used to fuction. Would also love a batch edit function. This new update is killing me. 

The new update takes the agility and comfort that made Lightroom good. It doesn't allow to scroll the pictures I have to go one by one, before I just imported and edited all at once.