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January 27, 2026
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P: “Enable AI Analysis in Catalog Settings to use Assisted Culling” appears on top of the current photo

  • January 27, 2026
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This was a thread that Mr Flohr had acknowledge matched an internal bug, but now it’s completely gone. Adobe released a bug fix update this month yet the bug remains. So I don’t know what is going on here but it’s pretty frustrating and insulting. 

 

Even with “Analyze photos of selected source...” disabled in catalog settings, and with the AI-assisted culling panel hidden, the message “Enable AI Analysis in Catalog Settings to use Assisted Culling” appears ON TOP OF THE CURRENT PHOTO while in develop mode. Obviously if you use Lightroom as your primary professional editing software, having a message appear ON TOP OF THE PHOTO which, when dismissed, simply reappears often after only a few seconds, is not ideal. This happens most frequently when command-L is used to enable and disable filtering. I’m on the most-recent version of lightroom and the most-recent update of macos Sequoia.

 

I am not going to waste my time deleting settings, reinstalling, disabling plugins, all of that stuff - I have work to do and I already did that the first time I submitted this report. Before some Adobe person asks me to do that, maybe you could spend like TWO MINUTES actually testing this out for yourself, since the last time I reported this bug you couldn’t be bothered, but it was quickly confirmed by numerous other users. 

 

Sorry for the frustrated tone but I’m literally just trying to do my job with this tool that is ostensibly designed for professionals, but doesn’t seem to care about the experience of professionals, and then deletes a bug report affecting multiple users without fixing it or notifying anyone. I would like to just edit photos quickly and without distraction on software for which I’ve diligently paid full-price for over a decade.

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julius_sAuthor
Participating Frequently
February 12, 2026

Still dealing with this bug. All AI features are turned off in the catalog and AI culling pane is disabled. The January update seems to have made it even worse, where often just moving a single slider will cause this message to appear ON TOP OF the current photo being edited. Submitting a new bug report since this forum is an absolute mess and our old posts still haven’t reappeared. What setting do we need to change so that we can use this photo editor, that we have all paid money for month after month for years on end, building our long-term projects in so that it’s difficult to jump to other software platforms, so that we can just edit without error messages appearing on top of the photo we’re working on? 

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 27, 2026

Read this thread: 

It describes the temporary nature of the forum migration and that your posts will reappear.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
julius_sAuthor
Participating Frequently
January 27, 2026

👍

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 16, 2026

I would invite you to reread the thread which you’ve acknowledged above. The previous bug report is still there and will be restored in the future. 

I would invite you to also read and understand the Terms of Use at the bottom of the page. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org