Storing images locally on Lightroom Mobile

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July 3, 2023
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I currently have a Lightroom Creative Cloud account with 1 TB of storage. I want to switch to Lightroom Mobile as I have been doing all of my editing on a new I Pad Pro. How can I store my images locally? I have a 1 TB SSD drive hooked up to the iPad that's I would use for this.

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Jim Wilde

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Lightroom Mobile is already included in your Creative Cloud subscription, and there are settings in the LrM app which would allow you to store a local copy of your cloud-based images.

There is also the free version of Lightroom Mobile that you could use if your intention is to cancel your current subscription.

However, neither version will allow you to store your images on an external drive and process them from that drive. All images would have to be imported into the app for editing, and would be stored in the app's space on the iPad.

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Jim - thanks for responding, you confirmed what I thought would be the answer after I downloaded and setup the LR Mobile app. The premium version looks like a bargain at its current price. I am still testing it out and haven't decided if I want to cancel my CC subscription yet. I have a few additional questions that you may be able to answer.

With the Lightroom for Mobile app are the images stored in the cloud?

I tried to add a new account but found I would need a second email account. Rather than setting up a new email account I downloaded the Mobile app through my current account to test it out. If I were to cancel my current subscription would the Mobile version be affected at all?

Is there a way to move the Folders and Albums I have currently to the Mobile version before I cancel the current subscription if I decide to go that way.

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

With the Lightroom for Mobile app are the images stored in the cloud?

The Lightroom design is yes, images from any Lightroom app are intended to be uploaded to the cloud, where they would be stored and managed (i.e. backed up) by the Adobe cloud servers. You can also keep local copies of some (or all) originals, but these are copies....the "master" should be the cloud version.

However, it is possible to pause sync on any specific app and keep it paused indefinitely. That, however, carries major risk unless the user takes responsibility for making backups of the local images.....any reinstall of the local LrMobile app will delete the local content, so if new images have not been uploaded to the cloud, and haven't been backed up by the user, they are lost. Same if you break the phone or have it stolen.

I tried to add a new account but found I would need a second email account. Rather than setting up a new email account I downloaded the Mobile app through my current account to test it out. If I were to cancel my current subscription would the Mobile version be affected at all?

I'm not 100% certain, but I think the installed Mobile app will automatically change to the "free" version.....but that loses some functionality, notably cloud syncing and the ability to process proprietary raw files.

Is there a way to move the Folders and Albums I have currently to the Mobile version before I cancel the current subscription if I decide to go that way.

That should happen automatically when you launch the Mobile app for the first time, provided you are logged in using the same account as per your current subscription, i.e. all existing Folders/Albums/Images should start to appear in the Mobile app. That's what cloud syncing is all about.....all your content on all your logged in devices.

However, if you then cancel your subscription it may be that all that content is removed and you'd have to start over. A better option would probably be to downgrade your current subscription to the premium mobile-only plan, i.e. keeping the same credentials should mean you keep the same content at a lower monthly cost.

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