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cryanhorner
Known Participant
August 3, 2026
Open for Voting

P: Treat Albums and Folders IDENTICALLY on Both Desktop and Mobile.

  • August 3, 2026
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When I am on the desktop version of Lightroom Cloud, I can very easily click on a folder I’ve created, for example I have one called “Completed Work”, and when I do that, I am shown all of the images contained in the various albums inside that folder, which correspond to different projects and things.

 

On mobile (ios in this case, though I’m told it’s the same on android), I am forced to click into each separate album before I can see anything at all and there is no way to corral all of the images in that folder in a single view, which wastes a lot of time and is frustrating.

 

Please treat folders and albums exactly the same regardless of platform, and allow us to click a folder on mobile and view all of its contents, just as we can on desktop.

 

It’s got nothing to do with a limitation of loading or displaying so many images at once, because all of those files (along with ~30,000 others) are included in the All Photos view and that has no problem loading at all on mobile.

 

 

 

[and reiterating my view/sort/filter related feature request that’s been in the queue for like 6 years: let us filter by NOT EQUAL TO, or specifically filter OUT things that we do not want to see, or let users HIDE specific files and folders using a public/private or hide/unhide setting or tag, and let users sort their files by FILE SIZE (not image size, I’m talking about MB, GB, etc.) so that we can locate and remove the largest files to effectively free up space.]

    2 replies

    Participant
    September 30, 2026

    I’ll add to this request that the terms Album and Folder align with commonly accepted definitions that a an Album is contained in a Folder because when you create an Album without any pictures and later when you want to add pictures to that album LR prompts you to add an album or folder. A supposed work around says to click and drag the picture to the album, but on my iPad that doesn’t work. Instead it checkmarks pictures as you try to drag to the album name in the left panel. 
    Essentially, the whole organization process is not intuitive at all and file Organization is one of the top reasons to use LR!
     

    cryanhorner
    Known Participant
    September 17, 2026

    Still open for voting, please consider this very low-hanging fruit.