Lightroom 6 and MacOS Big Sur

Yes, Been using LR 6.14 updated to Big Sur with glitches. SLOW,,,. The option to minimize LR template is gone. Other issues. I just picked an image and edited it, it can be done, but it's awkward and fidly. Thinking of reverting back to Yosemite, but don't know the results of that. 

HELP. I was running LR 6.1.4 on my MacBook Pro 2016 High Sierra OS.  I just installed Big Sur OS. LR 6.1.4works but is a disaster and extremely slow.   I want to move to the subscription Lightroom anyhow but want all my photos to be transferred from LR 6.1.4 catalogs. How should I go about it? It's now January 16/21

I just bought a new apple mac computer and reinstalled LR6 on it.  The OS system on the Mac was Catalina and LR worked fine. I didnt think to check what the implications were of upgrading to Big Sur and went ahead and did so.  I went to open LR6 this morning and it wouldnt open.  So anyone that hasnt upgraded to Big Sur and wants to continue using LR6 should hold off.  A bit late for me!

For future readers:

"New bug is that a white header is covering the photo if having information shown in loupe view. Turning it off (hitting "i" key) the white header is gone."

Others have reported the same issue too:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-white-bar-appears-in-develop-module-macos/5fbcd417d1b2e26e0e8494ee 

"Other limitation since Catalina is that map-module is not working."

The map module in LR 6 stopped working on all plaforms at the end of 2018:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-problem-google-maps-in-module-map/5f5f45f74b561a3d426b832c 

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/map-view-no-longer-supported.html?red=a 

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Hi,  I have LR 6.14 and upgraded from Catalina to Big Sur. Old LR is still working.

New bug is that a white header is covering the photo if having information shown in loupe view. Turning it off (hitting "i" key) the white header is gone. See attachment how that look like.

LR is no longer my primary photo software so I have have not tested it harder that opening it.

Other limitation since Catalina is that map-module is not working. 

This week Adobe posted a Support article Lightroom Classic and Big Sur | macOS 11. It says “Lightroom Classic 10.x is compatible with macOS Big Sur,” also saying “Lightroom Classic 9.x and earlier have not been tested for compatibility” and chances are they won’t be tested.

Lightroom 6, being 5 years old, is just not set up for the changes in macOS that Apple started requiring starting with macOS 10.14 and later. It’s already known that there is no way to run the Lightroom 6 installer on macOS 10.15 or later. If you want to run Lightroom Classic on macOS 11 Big Sur, and later on the new Apple Silicon Macs, and have it fully supported, it’s going to be Lightroom Classic 10.

"Big Sur" is macOS 11, not 10.16.

Right, thanks for the correction.

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@aliyam50991550said:

"MacOS Big Sur is coming out tomorrow 11/12/20. When can we start using Lightroom in the MacOS Big Sur? I have Lightroom 6."

As others have said, you may be able to run Lightroom 6 on Big Sur if it is already installed on your computer (pre-Big Sur). But its also possible there will be glitches and bugs, because Big Sur did not exist when Lightroom 6 was created, and you will be running unsupported software (Lightroom 6) on an operating system it was never designed for. Which means Adobe isn't going to fix any bugs found. This is a dicey situation, and in my mind, you are taking a big risk, and the best situation would be to stop running old, unsupported software on operating systems it was never designed for. But maybe everything will run fine...

If LR 6 is already installed on your computer, you may be able to keep running it after you upgrade to 10.16 (Big Sur). But note that it's not officially supported on 10.15 or 10.16.  Further, just as you can't install LR 6 on 10.15, you won't be able to install (or reinstall) it on 10.16, since the LR 6 installer is a 32-bit program, and 10.15 and 10.16 no longer run 32-bit programs.  A few people have reported here that LR 6 on 10.15 stopped working, and then they were stuck, since they couldn't reinstall it.

I recommend holding off updating to 10.16 until you get confirmation from someone else that LR 6 will continue running.  (Adobe isn't going to provide that confirmation.)

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