How to create custom file name preset for mobile image files?

Another shortcoming is that renaming with F2 then does not respect picture number.

Desktop import all get a unique number that is stored an incremented by LR with my name scheme.

If renaming imports that came to LrC from mobile, it seems not to respect this number.

The Lightroom sync options don’t seem to provide a way to do that automatically. I use a semi-automatic workaround.

The raw photos I shoot with the Lightroom mobile camera always start with APC_  and that doesn’t match my naming convention. I created a Smart Collection that lists all photos in the catalog that start with APC_ so that I can select them all, press F2 (the shortcut for Library > Rename Photo), and then apply the same rename preset that I use for camera card imports. The remaining problem with this workaround is that I have to remember to do it once in a while.

You might set up a similar Smart Collection that lists all images starting with IMG_ . The only reason that isn’t part of my Smart Collection criteria is that I use the phone’s built-in camera for JPG images that I don’t usually need to sync with my Lightroom Classic catalog, because I prefer the raw images from the Lightroom camera. But for the few phone JPG images that I do catalog, I should probably add a line for IMG_ and change the Match line to “any”.

I wasn’t able to find an existing feature request for this at the Lightroom product feedback site, so one could be submitted.