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Arrow keys keep on speeding through images without touching

Forum|Forum|6 months ago
November 12, 2025
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When I want to skip through hundreds or thousands of photos in Lightroom Classic (Version 15.0.1) in the film strip I mostly get this very annoying problem: after holding the arrow key to the right or left for a few seconds it doesn't stop anymore to speed through the images though I'm no more holding the arrow key. Sometimes it's going on for "just" a couple of hundred further photos and sometimes even through thousands of photos until the very last photo in the strip. I can't even stop it.

This first started three months ago when I updated on a new MacBook. On my old Macbook this never happened in years.
Does someone got an Idea to fix this bug?

macOS

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jeffreym

Known Participant

Purge the cache in the Preferences > Performance settings and it should return to proper behavior.

Jeremiah Hawkins

Participant

I just tested removing the cache and the issue persisted. I confirmed that the cache folder was empty in the Finder.

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jeffreym

Known Participant

well, that’s interesting. I’ve had this issue for a few weeks and finally found this thread and decided to try and do more testing, since it hasn’t been misbehaving on two other Macs I’ve tested. I think it must be a bug that crops up under particular conditions, but they may not be easily identified. It went away as soon as I cleared the cache. But maybe there was a corruption that the cache clearing happened to clear up. The issue was there even in safe mode. I moved the installation with the issue to another Mac to test and it did not occur. I tested my other Mac that I use when on the road, which is configured almost like a clone of my main MacBook Pro, and it was not present. I thought perhaps my previews database part of the issue. It’s huge, as my catalog spans more than 10 decades of image files close to 1M images. If this little cache clearing hadn’t done the trick I was going to remove the Previews database and then if that didn’t work, try old catalog backups in Time Machine. It’s a really frustrating problem.

Jeremiah Hawkins

Participant

Workaround: Open System Settings… > Keyboard > slide Key repeat rate to off

This will turn off all repeating characters in macOS but it prevents this bug from occurring unless you quickly press the arrow key many times in a row.

@Anshul_Saini, if you wish to reproduce this issue, go to the Library view, select fit, and then press and hold an arrow key (with any key repeat rate set other than off). After you release the key, Lightroom will continue to scrub through photos.

Claire H.

Community Manager

Hi @Jeremiah Hawkins, Thanks for sharing your workaround! I would like to encourage the community to comment and like if it works for them. As for replicating this issue, could you also send a screen recording if you are seeing it? We are still trying to replicate this internally. Thanks again! ^CH

markfro73

Participant

I have been having this same very annoying issue for a while now, too, since before I upgraded to Tahoe. Adobe has been ignoring what seems to be a known issue, and it definitely affects my productivity and overall trust in the product.

markfro73

Participant

The same issue applies to using the trackpad. When scrolling through my list of collections of on the left, a gesture up or down often sees the scroll continue all the way to the top, while my fingers never left the pad.

Anshul_Saini

Community Manager

Hi @markfro73 @corgicorgicorgicorgi,

Thanks for the detailed reports. I checked internally, and I’m not able to reproduce this on macOS Tahoe 26.4.1 (M1 Max). Also, there is currently no bug logged for this specific behavior.

To move this forward, we need to isolate whether this is coming from Lightroom or system-level input handling.

Please help confirm:

• Boot into Safe Mode and test with only Lightroom running
• Does the issue happen 100% consistently or randomly?
• Does similar behavior occur outside Lightroom (Finder, text fields, etc.)?

Also check for any background apps or utilities (keyboard tools, trackpad enhancers, tablet drivers) that are running in the background, and if closing them one by one changes/ stop the behavior.

Once we have that clarity, I can take this forward with the product team.

Regards,
Anshul Saini

corgicorgicorgicorgi

Participant

Is it still doing this on LR Classic 15.3 + Tahoe?

sharonpacker@mac.com

Participating Frequently

With the latest update, I’m having the same issue with Lightroom. the right arrow no lower advances photos or suddenly it skips several. And LR will not save my graphic watermark.

cubid

Participant

same issue since lightroom/mac updates a while ago.
Mac M1 Pro 2021, Tahoe 26.3

The only thing that seems to work is holding cmd while scolling with arrow keys - not as fast but the only workaround i found.

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ExUSA

Legend

Keystrokes are buffered and Lightroom is just catching up to how many it thinks are in the buffer. Don’t hold the arrow keys down maybe?

joebradyphoto

Participating Frequently

Wrong. This is a new bug and it’s behaving completely differently to how it used to. It’s scrolling through way too many photos for it to just be “buffering”.

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ExUSA

Legend

Ok whatever you say.

simpics

Participant

Same here. Macbook Pro M1 pro 16, 32GB and 2TB - pretty annoying and makes lightroom kind of unusable in my workflow

joebradyphoto

Participating Frequently

This has also started happening to me since I upgraded to Tahoe. I also shoot a lot of sports photography dealing with huge numbers of photos every day, so this is really slowing down my editing. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

joebradyphoto

Participating Frequently

Did you manage to solve this? I just updated my MacBook to Tahoe and this has started happening to me. It’s incredibly annoying and really slowing down my editing.

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