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January 30, 2026
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help integrating movile to classic catalog

  • January 30, 2026
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I need advice on syncing Lightroom Mobile edits into my Lightroom Classic workflow. My main catalog is in Lightroom Classic, where I import all my iPhone photos manually (thousands of them over the years, edited in Classic). But sometimes, before importing to my computer, I’ll edit a few photos on my phone in Lightroom Mobile. By the end of the day, when I import all my photos into Classic, I end up with the unedited original from the phone, but I also have an edited version in Lightroom Mobile.

 

I’d like a seamless process: say I shoot photos during the day, edit one in Lightroom Mobile, and then at night import everything from my phone to Classic, importing the files in dated folders as I usually do, and somehow get the edits from the Mobile catalog to apply to the instance of the matched file that was imported to the classic catalog.


I’m not sure what the best process is

 

In short:

I imported files to LR Classic, organized by date

I’d like to apply LR Mobile edits to files in the LR catalog in the most seamless, least-amount-of-steps way possible.

 

Thank you!

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    Rob_Cullen
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    January 30, 2026

    in the most seamless, least-amount-of-steps way possible.”-  Turn on [Sync] in Lightroom -Classic. That’s all you need to do and ALL photos you have imported to Lightroom-mobile will automatically download to the LrC catalog.

    No importing {phone>LrC} is needed (unless you have phone images that you did not import to Lightroom-mobile).

    You need to set LrC {Preferences > Sync} to  download to dated folders (you can move folders/photos in the LrC library.).

    I work in this manner and I have never connected my phone to my Lr-Classic computer. All my phone photos in Lightroom automatically appear in my home master Lr-Classic catalog without any action by me.

    But syncing Lr>LrC is an all-or-nothing decision. Sync in LrC downloads everything from Lr-mobile, which may not be what you want.

     

     

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .