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Inspiring
Jul 30, 2015 6:17 AM UTC
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P: LrM - Allow application of metadata to multiple photos at once

Allow me to select multiple photos and apply stars & ratings to the selected photos. Frequently I like to mark all photos as 3-stars, then filter on >= 3 stars. I then start setting photos I don't like to 2 stars to remove them from the visible set. As it is I can't mark all photos as 3 stars in one batch, I instead have to use the desktop to do it.

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Known Participant
Dec 7, 2022 3:12 PM UTC

5 years later, nothing has changed by part of Adobe. No info editing on multiple photos at once (captions, keywords etc), no flagging/rating multiple photos at once.
It makes Lightroom for an iPad an afterthought. These features have been available on Android for years. I have thousands of old photos I wanted to organize, mark for deletion, and caption. But doing them one by one is too slow. 

There is no point for me to get an iPad beyond the basic model. Why is Adobe silent on this? Does the  Adobe Lightroom  iPad/iOS development team communicate with the Android development team? 

 

Unreal. 

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Participant
Mar 15, 2022 12:09 AM UTC

Currently you can select multiple images but you can't set the rating on multiple images. 

 

 

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RolfGKarlsson
Participant
Nov 6, 2021 12:28 PM UTC

Yes. Still not possible 😞

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RolfGKarlsson
Participant
Nov 6, 2021 12:26 PM UTC

Agree. We need to be able to do this on the iPad without going back to the desktop.

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heshphoto
Participating Frequently
Mar 31, 2021 11:00 PM UTC

@Rikk what is up?? Seems like this should have been implemented 3 years ago...

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Inspiring
Oct 26, 2020 8:59 PM UTC

Hi, I already asked months ago about the ability to enter caption text (or keywords) for multiple photos at once. On Android it has been possible for months, on iPad/iOS the feature does not exist.

Most photographers who need to submit photos to editorial clients and publications are required to transmit captioned images. 

The iPad is very portable, but if I need to edit an assignment in the field and send 50 images with some different subjects, it becomes slow and tedious to enter captions one by one. 

Also the caption field box is only one line, which makes it hard to copy/cut/paste a selection of text for another caption (I need to enter subject name. event, location, credit, so some text may be common for all the photos and other specific for some subsets). 

I am not sure why this feature that is available on Android and on Lightroom Classic, is not an option on the iPad. 

It has been almost a year since I submitted a similar post, and Adobe has been silent. 

Is it an iPad OS specific problem or an oversight by part of Adobe? 

Thank you

Stefano

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Inspiring
Aug 13, 2020 7:14 PM UTC
Yes, Adobe please bring this feature to iOS as well
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Inspiring
Aug 13, 2020 5:10 PM UTC


iPad Lightroom, paste captions to multiple images.
Any updates? I don’t see the option to add captions to multiple photos at once. It is a fundamental, basic function . I cam do it on The android version of Lightroom, but not on my iPad. I posted the issue in 2019, still this dealbreaker to use Lightroom for iPad and iOS professionally.
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Inspiring
Aug 13, 2020 5:09 PM UTC


I am trying to edit some assignments in Lightroom mobile on an iPad. I don’t see a way to apply metadata info like captions to multiple images at once. I can copy and paste one by one , but that’s too time consuming. I see the option on my android phone. The iPad version of Lightroom seems more confusing than the android. I am trying to figure out if I can realistically leave the MacBook behind for editing on location. But the mobile iPad Lightroom seems a bit cumbersome.Stefano
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Inspiring
May 22, 2020 9:10 PM UTC
Hoping to get some updates on this as I do most of my editing on my Ipad and its frustrating to not be able to charge the ratings and flags on large batches of photos
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