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November 10, 2025
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P: [Lightroom Web] Unable to reorder photos in an Album set to Custom order

  • November 10, 2025
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Hello,

 

I've encountered a bug in Lightroom Web: I am unable to reorder the photos of an album which sort order ("Sort by") has been set to "Custom Order".

 

Information:

  • OS: Windows 11 Profesionnal - 25H2 - 26200.6899
  • Web browsers: tested on the latest versions (including in incognito mode) of both :
    • Chrome: 142.0.7444.135
    • Edge: 142.0.3595.69

 

Reproduction steps:

1. Create an album with some photos

2. Set sort order to "Custom Order"

3. Try to drag-and-drop some photos (a single one or several selected ones) to reorder them → nothing happens

 

Expected result:

A marker appears where you drag the selected photos, allowing you to drop them and reordering them.

 

Workaround:

Photos can be reordered in the Mobile app:

The new order appears in the Web app after refreshing:

 

However, this is not satisfactory as it is impossible to drag-and-drop several photos at once, which makes reordering big albums extremely time consuming.

 

 

Thank you in advance for addressing this.

 

Best regards

 

2 replies

Participant
August 1, 2026

I know you wrote this a long time ago, but I was having the same issue this morning.  The easy way to sort your photos online and have them stay put is to choose the way you view them.  Within an album go to lower left and chose full screen icon (see image). Once in full screen you can drag and drop your images and they stay put.

I knew I was able to do this in the past, so thought it would be foolish to no longer have this feature.  It’s there and works really well.

 

Participant
August 1, 2026

It’s too bad no one answered this sooner.