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Severe lag, CPU spikes, and sustained heavy disk writes while editing (Lightroom 9.5.1, macOS, Apple Silicon)App version: Adobe Lightroom (cloud) 9.5.1OS: macOS 26.6.2 (Build 25G83)Hardware: MacBook Pro, Mac15,6, 18 GB RAM, Apple SiliconSymptoms:After just a few minutes of ordinary RAW editing (Leica DNG files), Lightroom becomes severely laggy. Sliders stop responding smoothly, preset previews don't render, and the system heats up with fans at full speed. This isn't tied to any heavy feature like Denoise or masking, it happens on basic actions.Measured evidence:- Lightroom's own CPU usage has been observed as high as 341% and 574% (Activity Monitor), with GPU usage spiking to 40%+ during simple actions like dragging one slider or switching to a new photo.- macOS generated an automatic disk-writes resource-violation report during one editing session: Lightroom dirtied 2,147.67 MB of file-backed memory over 2,123 seconds, an average of 1,011.51 KB/sec, against the system's expected limi

Why does my system keep crashing when I try to remove people in Lightroom

When exporting, you’re sometimes met with a dialogue window alerting you that “some” photos need to be updated before they can be exported - this is fine, thanks for the heads up, but I want to see what photos they are before blindly confirming that I want to update them. There should be a “show me” button that immediately goes to a smart filter with all photos needing “AI updates” plainly filtered in front of me, so I can choose to go and do them myself to monitor what actually changes. On top of this, we used to be able to do this ourselves with a context menu “Update AI Masks” - this was taken away for whatever reason. Plainly, I want to see what needs to be updated before I commit to updating it.

Há um tempo já estava sentindo falta de umas fotos em especificas do meu Lightroom nuvem.Até que fui realmente pesquisar e vi que as fotos do dia 16/5/26 haviam sumido. Provavelmente sumiram ha mais de 2 meses, porque não há registro na lixeira e em nem um outro canto.Consegui ver que elas tinham sumido, porque no meu Google photos no dia que exportei as fotos elas foram para nuvem da Google.Então gostaria de saber se existe um jeito de eu recuperar essas fotos.São de pássaros endêmicos aqui de Rondônia, no Brasil, que são super difíceis de fotografar. 

I updated Lightroom today to version 9. I go to edit a black and white negative, and the curve information is gone! It's just a gray mess with no information. I figure I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what, so any help is appreciated. I'm looking for the graph (?) where I could adjust the white and black points in the curve--there would be a bunch of lines that look like a mountain. Sorry for the low-tech explanation. Thanks!

Nowhere in the mobile app does it note that upgrading your Lightroom account will strictly be mobile. How is it legal to do this? What is stopping people from submitting this to the FTC?

I’m curious how other Lightroom users keep their photo libraries organized over time.My regular work is in medical billing, where keeping information organized and easy to find is important, so I tend to appreciate simple systems that make it easier to manage a large amount of information. I’ve been wondering how Lightroom users approach the same idea with their photo collections.Do you organize everything primarily with albums, folders, ratings, keywords, or a combination of different methods?I’m especially interested in simple workflows that work well when the library keeps growing. It would be helpful to hear how others avoid ending up with thousands of photos that are difficult to search through later.What Lightroom organization method has worked best for you?

Quando mando exportar imagens, aparece esse erro. Como solucionar. 

I am a professional wildlife photographer and safari guide, and I regularly spend extended periods working in remote parts of Africa where internet access is extremely limited or completely unavailable.On a typical trip I can generate hundreds of gigabytes of RAW files, and sometimes close to 1 TB. A cloud based workflow is therefore simply not practical. Even when some internet is available, uploading that volume of data from a remote safari camp is impossible.I would love to replace my laptop with an iPad Pro for much of my field workflow. The iPad is powerful, has an excellent display and would significantly reduce the amount of equipment I need to carry. As a photographer already travelling with multiple camera bodies, large lenses, storage drives and other equipment, removing a laptop from my kit would make a genuine difference.What prevents me from doing this is Lightroom’s dependence on importing images into its cloud based ecosystem.I would like Lightroom for iPad to have the s

As a photographer who often captures events using multiple cameras, I frequently encounter the need to keep images in a sequence that reflects the chronological order of the event. While the info tab in Lightroom (Cloud-based) displays the capture time of images, the ability to sort images based on capture time is currently missing in this version. Request:Adding a feature to sort images by capture time in Adobe Lightroom (Cloud-based) would be immensely beneficial for users like me who require a seamless and organized method of keeping images in the correct sequence of events as they happened in time. This feature, already present in Lightroom Classic, would enhance the workflow efficiency and help maintain the continuity and narrative flow of the images. By incorporating the option to sort images by capture time in the cloud-based version of Lightroom, photographers would have the flexibility and convenience to manage and edit their collections more effectively, especially when worki

Hi, I have an active Adobe Lightroom 1TB subscription purchased directly through Adobe. My Lightroom Android app is signed into the same Adobe ID, but Premium features such as Masking are still locked. I tried “Restore your purchase,” but it has been stuck on “Restoring purchases. This may take a while” for over an hour. Please help me sync/activate my subscription on Lightroom mobile.

This would add a way to change the locational data to multiple selected photos at the same time. A suggestion is to integrate it into the copy edit settings feature or into presets. This is useful for film photography processing that won't have locational data due to the developing process.

This is what I pay for monthly. I need to get a new computer. If I download my creative suite onto my new computer will all of my info and photos still be in my Lightroom?

In the Presets panel, under Recommended, I do not see the preset categories (Warm, Dark, Bright, Cinematic, HDR, etc.) that appear in Adobe's documentation and other users' screenshots. The app is fully updated, I've already compared it with Lightroom on my phone, and the feature is missing only on my iPad. I'd like to know if this is a bug, a staged rollout, or an account-specific issue. 

Hi, I payed for a yearly premium subscription back in May of 2026. For some reason it’s saying it do not have the premium membership. I have verified that the payment went through.

Key word search in relevance order gives the most relevant hits last.How to reproduce:1) Search for any known key word added in Light Room Classic.2) Choose search order "Relevance". Expected result: The most relevant search hits (images with the specified key word) should be first.Actual result: The least relevant search hits come first (even totally irrelevant images). There is no option to reverse the order.

 I emptied my caches, and every time I try log into my account this is what I get. 

Thought I was the only one having this issue but then did research and looks like everyone has this problem.

I paid the £45 for a years subscription to lightroom mobile premium after my free trial. The money has left my bank but the LR account says subscription expired. Any thoughts?

Why is it so hard to find someone from Adobe to contact.  I was using Instagram to chat witht hem and then nothing has been said from them in a few days. I am trying to regain access to some lost files from an account that was closed down just a week ago.

Hello, I’m encountering a weird one here. I have Lightroom installed on my (work) laptop and was able to edit my photos until recently.I don’t know what changed but I can no longer edit photos, the settings are not loading and stay disabled.Here’s what I tried so far.Check Lightroom on my Mac Mini and iPad - no issues Signed out of Creative Cloud on my work laptop and signed back in - didn’t resolve the issue Uninstall and re-install Lightroom - didn’t resolve the issue Uninstall again, clear some of the stuff that remains on the disk (e.g. Library\Preferences\Adobe, removed the photo library etc..) and then re-install - didn’t resolve the issueHas anyone encountered the same issue?Thanks! Here’s the technical details from Lightroom on this laptop:Lightroom version: 9.5.1 arm64 [ 20260815-1945-84a45bf ] (Aug 15 2026)NGL Version: 1.43.0.5WF Version: 8.5 20b9f90VF Version: 1.0.164HIL Version: 40501CAI Version: adobe_api/1.66.1PH Version: 6.1.1Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.0.213CR Version: 29.5

I received an email saying my photos and presets will be deleted if I don't subscribe. I've been using the free version of Lightroom mobile for a long time, I don't understand why everything will be deleted? Shouldn't I be able to keep my photos and presets and still not have access to the premium features?

I’ve trouble shot so many things to try to fix it, but after this latest update, it’s not allowing me to import new photos

the program is like freeze i click every where and nothing happen can change the comand

Blur option is not showing my device