Anyone know why the quality & color of my RAW imports to Lightroom IpadOS are awful vs iPhoto & IME?

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August 1, 2025
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Lightroom on iPad didn't use to do this. I've attached two screenshots of the same RAW unedited photo from my Sony A1. One screenshot is viewing it in iPhoto and the other is viewing it imported to Lightroom. Neither has been edited. In Lightroom the quality tanks; it's terrible.

I checked App Store and Lightroom's up to date. This just started happening and with all RAW imported photos, the quality goes way down. Any help would be appreciated.

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KatB836Author

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The 1st screenshot is viewing in Lightroom. The second is viewing in iPhoto.

Sameer K

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Hey, @KatB836. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. Thanks for sharing the screenshots.

Have you recently imported a large batch of images into Lightroom? How much free space do you have on the iPad?

Generally, once the images are imported into Lightroom, they're synced to the cloud. As the Sync is completed, Lightroom automatically vacates the local caches to free up space on the device, and the edits are applied to previews. You can verify what has synced to the cloud on Lightroom Web (https://adobe.ly/4l8s1mg)

In Lightroom, go to the Menu at the top corner > Local Storage. Here, you can set the upper limit on Caches, view details about how Lightroom uses your device storage, increase the capacity, and clear existing caches.

For a few images, while in the detail/full screen view > click on the Cloud icon & select download original.

Could you check how it goes? Thanks!

Sameer K
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