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pennypcollinsphotos
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April 6, 2026
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Lightroom Mobile/Cloud: Captions, titles, and keywords added on iPad do not export with JPG

  • April 6, 2026
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First off, I love Lightroom Classic.  It does everything I need, and more, and I’m finding it gets better and better with each new feature.  I use it when I’m able to finish work at home.  It works in my workflow fantastically.  

Since I need to submit photos in real time, I started making a transition to Lightroom Mobile (I think) or Lightroom Cloud (?), on my iPhone 16 plus.  I then needed to be able to see the work and write the captions using a bigger platform in the field (I’m a photojournalist), so I’ve been using an iPad Air 13 that I just purchased.  I’m having all sort of issues replicating how I used my iPhone.  

 

I just can’t seem to figure out where/what I’m on, when I’m using LR on different hardware + devices.  The features are different on the version of LR on my mobile phone from my ipad.  

 

And, the biggest issue is, I spent a great deal of time on my iPad, creating my caption, title and key words, and now I’m finding that none of it exported when I created JPGs to submit to my news wire.  I was able to import photos to my wire, and it would grab the caption and populate against each photo.  If it doesn’t have that, then I have to go in and manually copy and paste into each photo.  

 

I thought the ipad was going to make my life easier, but honestly - it’s been a bit of a hassle.  

 

I’m guessing I’m using a downloaded Mobile app (sometimes) and LR in the cloud (other times), but honest to goodness I can’t tell which.  I feel like the more “on device’ and less ‘in cloud’ the better the features and the more it’s working for me in the field.  

 

Any tips?  I really need to change up what I’m doing, as I was up to 3:30 following a track and field event, and now realizing all I submitted, likely doesn’t have any of my key words in it - which makes me really sad.

 

I wish I could just have Lightroom Classic on my iPad Air (I love you LRC!!!)

1 reply

Jim Wilde
Community Expert
Jim WildeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 7, 2026

First off, let’s figure out which app you are using. On the iPhone there is only one Lightroom mobile app, called Lightroom Photo & Video Editor. On the iPad, the equivalent Lightroom mobile app is called Adobe Lightroom for iPad. Being different sized devices, the UI for these two apps do differ, though the underlying functionality is broadly similar. The only slight issue is that on the iPhone you can only install the one app, but on the iPad it is technically possible to download and install both versions of the mobile app, so make sure you are using only the correct app on each device.

I don’t understand what you mean when you say “I’m guessing I’m using a downloaded Mobile app (sometimes) and LR in the cloud (other times)”…all of the mobile apps use the cloud by default, though that aspect can be paused by the user.

 

Dealing with the specific issue of metadata not being included when you export to Jpeg, you need to examine your export settings to ensure that they are set to include the metadata. Which export process are you using on the iPad (Save copy to Device, Share, or Export As)? For the first two options they each have their own settings menu (via the gear icon) which need to be pre-set before using to ensure that the appropriate metadata options are selected, whereas the Export As option requires you to choose the export settings each time, but again that does allow the user to set the required metadata inclusion/exclusion options.

    pennypcollinsphotos
    pennypcollinsphotosAuthor
    Participant
    April 8, 2026

    Thanks for the great info Jim!  I’ve been in study mode for my first responder re-certification and haven’t been able to go back in and compare and contrast, but I plan on doing that and also looking at the advice on the meta data.  I’ve noticed on the iPad, that it’s very important to be in a specific spot, to have certain options available.  For instance, couldn’t find a way to use a preset on one photo, then copy/paste those settings onto the next photo - unless I had clicked on the edit icon first.  Those settings were usually greyed out, unless I clicked on that.  Still have not figured out how to do it with multiple photos at a time.  Truth be told, I need to rewatch training videos.  I’ve just been so swamped.  

     

    It seems that Lightroom on my PC, has more comprehensive features though. And I don’t think I’ll get them in the field on my iPad. I can’t create a mask, for people as example. And there isn’t the Mask/object option.  But I imagine at some point, they will update those new features available on a desktop, to mobile.

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