P: iPhone 16 Pro Max has too generic model name in meta data

[Matthias Bober]

Version: Lightroom 10.1.1

Platform: iPhone 16 Pro Max with iOS 18.2

Pictures taken with Lightroom Mobule iOS on the iPhone 16 Pro Max have just "iPhone" as model name in the meta data. Previous iPhone models such as iPhone 13 Pro had their exact model name embedded. This makes it really cumbersome to filter in certain parts of Lightroom. Please check the attached images. Note the generic "iPhone" model name for the iPhone 16 compared to the exact model name for the iPhone 13 Pro.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

I am not sure if this is a Classic bug or iPhone/Mobile bug. I've logged an issue with the Classic team to investigate. 

Thank you for the report!

[Matthias Bober]

Thanks for looking into it.

It's easy to reproduce and a Lightroom Mobile bug for sure. Also I have the suspicion this has changed for all iPhone and iPad models since LR Mobile v10.

steps to reproduce:

- take a RAW picture with the LR cam in LR Mobile on iOS

- look at the metadata of the captured DNG

- model name is generic, e.g. iPhone or iPad and not the specific model, like iPhone 16 Pro Max etc

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

The Team has requested a sample file that illustrates the problem. Can you provide a file for review? 

If possible: 

One shot from Lightroom iOS mobile app.

Other shot from Apple Camera App

[Matthias Bober]

Hey, please download the zipped images. The Zip archive contains three images, the LR mobile RAW and two images from the Apple iPhone Photo app (HEIC and RAW). Thanks

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gkROvFKHlo7xqFFsT6T3ruMgFOl4K1nT/view?usp=sharing

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Thanks!

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Unfortuntely this download doesn't contain any raw files. Can you supply raw files instead?

[Matthias Bober]

Oops, sorry, I shared the wrong link. This one should work, hopefully 🙂

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16VQouo3qv0WcNZF3zOSvMyh7HsRNcDqd/view?usp=sharing

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

It tells me "Access-denied"

[Matthias Bober]

sorry, again. please try again. I had forgotten to set the permissions

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16VQouo3qv0WcNZF3zOSvMyh7HsRNcDqd/view?usp=sharing

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Got it - thanks!

[Matthias Bober]

great, thanks!

[Matthias Bober]

This seems to be fixed as of today's LR mobile update. Thanks so much!

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Greetings all,

Adobe Lightroom Mobile product updates are released.  The February release updates contain a fix for this issue. 

Updates will be available via the Apple App Store. Note that it can take several days for some customers to receive a notification of an available update via their App Store.

Thank you for being so patient.