P: Ability to import raw files on mobile

Not having camera raw dialog box is deal breaker for me too and smart objects and smart healing brush tool.  I can’t work without those 3.

I just bought a XQD reader from Gnarbox and now I guess only good that is for really is if I shoot my D850 in jpg plus RAW to play it safe for the interim.  I do have affinity which I hate and Lightroom mobile so can save out raws there for interim until Adobe gets their priorities straight a bit.

Affinity is SO painful to work in for me at least.  There is zero intuitiveness with the layout of that app,  Lightroom is the better choice for now.  At least PS on mobile can do layer masks...that’s huge for the moment. I don’t know of u guys remember an app called Photoforge....this was eventually bought out by Yahoo and they killed it for some reason years ago.  This app was like 10X stronger than this PS mobile is and that was almost 10 years ago I bet now!  Photoforge2 actually was it.  U could do masks and all kinds of great editing.  Wish. That was still around it would have crushed all these apps by now guarantee!

Yeah one would think this would have been a priority for a program called PHOTOshop.  

Spot on. Adding yet another app into the mix is hardly going tot have a positive effect on speeding up professional workflow

I’m stunned the Adobe status on this thread is “under consideration”. This should have been a basic requirement from day 1 of development

Someone mentioned this above, you can buy the Affinity Photo app which opens RAW and saves in numerous other formats including PSD.  Then import the PSD to Photoshop on iPad.  Not ideal but it works.  Incidentally, Affinity Photo is pretty good on its own. The lack of RAW support is beyond egregious.  

There doesn’t appear to be a straightforward way to open files that come directly from a pro level camera.  Virtually all serious photographers capture in RAW.  Being able to edit in Photoshop directly from the Lightroom mobile app would also make the workflow independent of a desktop/laptop.

Add import and export support HEIF as well

At a minimum you should be able to pass easily from Lightroom to Photoshop but they have not managed that. Best would be using  Adobe Camera Raw the same way you do on your desktop.