How to import photos taken with Lr on iPhone into LrC on a Mac ?

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July 29, 2022
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Hello Everyone,

Taking photos using Lr on my iPhone has generated 13.3 GB of Creative Cloud storage, but I fail to see how to import those photos in LrC on my Mac. I expected it to be very simple... I must miss something trivial. What ?

Any help will be highly appreciated.

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Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

It is simple! In Lightroom-Classic turn on Sync in the Cloud icon (top right corner).

Now ALL your Cloud photos will download into a folder locally.

BUT FIRST- a good idea is to set your Preferences for the Folder (and Date sub-folders) for the downloads- In the Preferences > Lightroom Sync Tab:

SYNC SETUP IN CLASSIC

After knowing all files have been downloaded they can be deleted from the Cloud.

Then the trick is to place them in LrC Collections and sync the Collections- the photos appear back in the Cloud without using any Cloud space. (They sync as proxy DNG files- smaller that originals.)

Re:

(The 'Cloud' you see from the Desktop App is NOT the same as your Cloud space for mobile images!)

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 .

J

jepo13Author

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Thanks, Tob_Cullen, for your prompt reply. This is what I did, but no photographs show up. This even though, as the attached screen capture shows, LrC says the sync is complete !

I've tried numerous times, to no avail. This is on my Mac. On my PC, it all worked...

Any clues ?

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

In the Catalog panel of the Library module in LrClassic, is there an "All Synced Photographs" entry immediately underneath the "All Photographs" entry? If so, what is the total?

That special collection contains a record of all photographs that have been synced with the cloud, either from Classic TO the cloud, or FROM the cloud (i.e. your synced iPhone photos). Click on "All Synced Photographs" and that will populate the grid with all the synced photos, so then use the Library Filter bar to filter on "Camera" to see if the iPhone is listed. If it is, click on that entry in the filter and you'll be seeing only the synced iPhone photos in the grid. Right-click on any one of them and select "Go to Folder in Library" which will open the folder containing that photo in the Folders Panel.

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