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December 19, 2017
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P: Please add smart albums

  • December 19, 2017
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I would love to be able to create smart albums (aka smart collections) in the all-new Lightroom CC. Basically, a folder that contains a set of photos based on metadata information and updates automatically. The feature set should ideally contain all the options that exist in Lightroom Classic for smart collections. Thanks!

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mathieud65778067
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September 17, 2026

Hi Lightroom team,

as mentioned earlier, this release is currently  not doing much really.

At it stands, Smart Albums is not a feature of LR.

When can we expect real Smart albums based on rules ?

Why is it taking so long ?

Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
April 6, 2026
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Rikk Flohr-Retired
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February 15, 2026
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mathieud65778067
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August 30, 2025

@S.Seng To be honest, even the desktop version of the smart albums remains quite useless for the time being. There is not much we can do with it until we can use Or/And/Not

S.Seng
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August 30, 2025

Why mobile/ipad version is far far behind the others. There is point in this product if adobe doesn't want improve the product. It's more than few years behind other platforms.

mathieud65778067
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August 29, 2025

Same here

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August 29, 2025

Yes I don't know why this isn't a feature!! We can filter by location, but cannot filter by "none" like you can on classic. Honestly I am close to the end of my teather with Adobe

mathieud65778067
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August 29, 2025

Hi @Mausfans, I have dreamed of this as well.

But given all the basic features we have been waiting for many long years, I've not reached the point to dare asking for this!

You're right, we should not lose focus and ask for the important things. Keep it up !

Maybe we get this feature in 2050...

(I'm still bitter seeing the LR price increase with so few improvements on the basics)

Participant
August 29, 2025

I would like to use a smart filter showing all my pictures that have no location (or GPS) info,thus I could add the information manually. Currently I did not find a way to do this.

 

Thanks for considering this feature

mathieud65778067
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August 3, 2025

I couldn't agree more @luxBorealis , except that even the desktop version of the Smart albums is not worth much yet, given that we cannot use And/Or/Not... so it's actually even worse than you think...