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Inspiring
Oct 24, 2018 3:49 AM UTC
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P: Lightroom Desktop: Segmentation on desktop

Provide segmentation features on desktop to match iOS app

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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
Jun 14, 2026 1:48 PM UTC
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Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
danielw58122329
Known Participant
Jun 16, 2026 9:04 PM UTC

Why not merge into the original, aka “close as duplicate”? Anyway, mobile has segmentation by flag and star rating as well. I don’t really get why the new one replaces the seven year old one and then removes some of the ask :(

I don’t know if I’m the only one but features that are on the phone and not on desktop is one of my absolute least favorite things about LR. Would love to be able to share to the clipboard on the mac.

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danielw58122329
Known Participant
Jul 25, 2025 12:45 AM UTC

It's been almost 7 years since this thread was opened. Please bring segmentation (back to) desktop!

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Participant
May 9, 2025 11:29 AM UTC

Warum ist das Gruppieren (oder Segmentieren) von Fotos in einem Album in der Desktop-App nicht möglich?

In den mobilen Versionen (Android und iOS) kann man das machen, z.B. nach Jahr oder Monat...

 

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SteddyShots
Known Participant
Aug 21, 2023 8:00 PM UTC

iOS Lightroom has segementation so you can have the grid view segment photos by various options, notably by date such as Year or Month or Date which I always find invaluable. But oddly it's missing from macOS. There is a drill down date option in the sidebar (which wish iOS had), but that is different from segmentation since you can visually see which photos are in the segements by simply scrolling.

Not sure if this omission on macOS is an oversite or some reason why it's intentionally not there on macOS but is on iOS?

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Participant
Apr 5, 2023 5:18 PM UTC

Wow. I am so glad I used to pirate this stuff. Adobe is so terrible with basic features. This has been on here since 2018, 5 years ago. I'm glad I moved the majority of my workflow over to Aff****y because this is just inexcusable for a company their size with the money they're making off cloud.

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Participating Frequently
Oct 19, 2022 3:40 PM UTC

Why is a very useful option("segmentation") found on the ipad app not also found on the macbook pro m2 app?

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Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
Oct 19, 2022 10:32 PM UTC

The option "segmentation" is not apparent in the 'Desktop' version of Lightroom.

Perhaps because the larger screen size of Macs & PCs doesn't warrent "segmentation".

Both 'Sort' and 'By Date' options are the nearest to "segmentation" although it might be useful in Lightroom-Desktop - worthy of suggesting as an 'idea'!

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Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.6, Photoshop 27.8, ACR 18.7, Lightroom 9.4, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
Oct 19, 2022 3:18 PM UTC

that i don't know.  if you want to make a feature request, do so here - https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

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Participating Frequently
Oct 19, 2022 7:36 AM UTC

How do I activate the "segmentation" option in Lr for macbook pro m2 ?

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kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
Oct 19, 2022 10:13 AM UTC

<moved from using the community >

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Timothy.Spear
Inspiring
Aug 3, 2021 10:18 PM UTC

Curious, what is the use case for this segmentation?

Tim

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danielw58122329
Known Participant
Aug 3, 2021 10:11 PM UTC

Wow 2 years gone still not there. Rough.

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