LR Mobile App Photos imported from Device are not labeled with LR Overlay

Question

I use the latest LR mobile version (9.1.0) on my iPhone 15 Pro Max (iOS 17.2.1) in parallel to the cloud version LR v. 7.1.2. I imported my complete photo library from my harddisk into the Adobe cloud using the Mac version. Adobe imported all pictures successfully and status on both, my mobile and my Mac, is "Synced and Backed Up".

On my phone I have a small subset of my library. When I now switch to device view on LR mobile the photos are not marked as "LR" as they would have, if would have imported them through the app. Nonetheless if I load any of the pictures in the device mode and close it again, the LR overly is suddenly shown. So obviously the link between cloud and device exists, but the overlays are not updated accprdingly.

I did not find any means in order to force an update of the overlays on all of the more than 6.000 photos on my mobile, therefore I report this as a bug.

Charlie.D · Answer

When you import iOS camera roll photos on the Mac, the information Lightroom iOS uses to detect if the photos have already been imported from the camera roll is not available, so the photos will not be badged in LR Mobile's Device tab. They would need to be imported by the LR Mobile app on the same device show the badge.

And you did find the work-around, which is to open an image in LR Mobile's full screen view that has editing controls. At that point LR Mobile detects you are opening a photo that is a duplicate of one that had already been imported and open the existing photo (and after that point the badge should appear).

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