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LauraSphtgrphy
Participating Frequently
April 27, 2026
Question

Lightroom randomly pasting settings (exposure, WB, crop) to photos as you click through them. LRC 15.3, Macbook Pro M1 Max, 64GB, macOS Tahoe 26.4.1

  • April 27, 2026
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When I’m in the develop module and clicking back and forth through photos, LRC will randomly paste the settings from a previous photo onto the next one.  Sometimes it will only change the values (exposure, WB, etc) in the basic settings on the develop panel without actually changing the photo itself.  Other times, it will change the photo as well, at which point it will say “multiple settings” in the history.  I’m only clicking through them, not applying any changes to them.

 

I’ve also experienced it where I’ll crop one photo and then when I click to the next photo, it will show that same crop on the next photo as if I applied it when I didn’t.  When I click into the crop tool, it will show the crop but when I close the crop tool, the crop isn’t actually applied.

 

The sync feature is not on, it happens in multiple catalogs, everything is up to date.  It’s hard to replicate and it happens randomly.  It will work for a while and then it will start glitching like this randomly.  There doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason.  Is anyone else experiencing this?

    4 replies

    Vueey Le
    Participant
    May 18, 2026

    Holy! I am glad I am not the only one having this issue! 
    It keeps on randomly applying settings from previous photos to the next photos, not re-masking the images randomly and randomly rotating my images as well. 

    This has made me almost want to send my laptop across the room numerous amount of times. 

    Except, this is happening to me on Adobe Lightroom (Not the LRC version). 
    Very irritating and significantly slowing down my workflow. 

    dj_paige
    Legend
    May 18, 2026

    Holy! I am glad I am not the only one having this issue! 
    It keeps on randomly applying settings from previous photos to the next photos, not re-masking the images randomly and randomly rotating my images as well. 

    This has made me almost want to send my laptop across the room numerous amount of times. 

    Except, this is happening to me on Adobe Lightroom (Not the LRC version). 
    Very irritating and significantly slowing down my workflow. 

    @Vueey Le you are in the wrong forum, this is the Lightroom Classic forum but your problem is not with Lightroom Classic. You want to post in the Lightroom (Ecosystem) forum.

    Meiema
    Participant
    April 29, 2026

    I am having the same issues. It is also rotating my photos. It started happening for me after the most recent update and is significantly slowing my work flow. Has anyone got any clue on how to fix this?

    Community Expert
    April 29, 2026

    @Meiema You haven't given us any information about your system. Therefore, all proposed solutions are a look into the crystal ball

     

    Please provide a copy of your 'System Info'. This can be get from the Lightroom menu item Help > System Info. There's a copy button in the System Info dialog. Press this button and paste the info into your next forum post.

    My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 9 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
    Meiema
    Participant
    April 29, 2026

    Lightroom version: 9.3 arm64 [ 20260407-1929-32efcc0 ] (Apr  7 2026)
    NGL Version: 1.43.0.5
    WF Version: 8.3 5c9a130
    VF Version: 1.0.164.1
    HIL Version: 40501
    CAI Version: c2pa-c/0.6.0 c2pa-rs/0.46.0
    PH Version: 5.2.3
    Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.0.210
    CR Version: 29.5.0.202509162212_6e7a997
    Catalog ID: dc72ba09ce8945788f4ecccda661fee7

    Operating system: macOS
    OS Version: macOS 26.0.1 (25A362)
    Application architecture: arm64
    Computer model: Mac16,7 / Apple M4 Pro
    Logical processor count: 14
    Real memory available to Lightroom: 24,576.0 MB
    Real memory used by Lightroom: 1,462.0 MB (5.9%)
    Peak memory used by Lightroom: 1,466.0 MB
    Memory cache size: 1,890.7 MB

    Internal Camera Raw version: 18.3 [ 2526 ]
    Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 8
    Camera Raw SIMD optimization: Neon
    Camera Raw virtual memory: 0MB / 10240MB (0%)

    Display: 3456x2234
    Dark Mode: Yes

    Graphics Processor Info: Metal: Apple M4 Pro
    Graphics Processor Detail: loaded: Yes, supported: Yes, compute: Yes, init: I4_GPU4, hard: success, soft: success, al: Yes, dl: No
    OS Media Capability: true

    Application Folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom CC
    Settings Folder: /Users/meiema/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom CC
    Library Folder: /Users/meiema/Pictures/Lightroom Library.lrlibrary
     

    Rikk Flohr_Photography
    Community Manager
    April 27, 2026

    Can you describe what you mean in this statement? Screenshots? 

    “Other times, it will change the photo as well, at which point it will say “multiple settings” in the history. “

    Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
    LauraSphtgrphy
    Participating Frequently
    April 28, 2026

    You’ll see in this screen record that I'm merely clicking through the photos and when I go back to the previous one, that photo will take on all of the settings from the one before it.  Then in the edit history, it will say “multiple settings” when I never tried to change anything.  It just did it on its own.

    Community Expert
    April 27, 2026

    Reset the preferences of Lightroom Classic:  How to reset Lightroom Classic preferences (adobe.com)

    It's recommended to backup your preferences before you reset the preferences to the default settings: 

    https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/preference-file-and-other-file-locations.html

     

    My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 9 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
    LauraSphtgrphy
    Participating Frequently
    April 27, 2026

    That’s been done numerous times now, including using the adobe cleanup tool, redownloading Adobe Creative Cloud and LRC,  cleared caches, everything.  I’ve done support sessions with 8-10 Adobe agents who have taken over my computer and nothing fixes it.  They claim that it’s likely something on my end, not theirs.  

    Community Expert
    April 28, 2026

    Please provide a copy of your 'System Info'. This can be get from the Lightroom menu item Help > System Info. There's a copy button in the System Info dialog. Press this button and paste the info into your next forum post.

     

    My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 9 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI