Moving from android to desktop

Forum|Forum|3 months ago
November 19, 2025
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I am looking to increase my subscription from and android account purchased via Play store to a desktop account, and have a few worries about this.

I want to be able to still have the seven day free trial, but dont want to lose my mobile account should I decide not to take the desktop version.

I only have 6.1 gb of data in the cloud and wondered if I would lose this should I cancel the android account.

I have tried asking these questions using the online chat and have had three different answers, which doesnt fill me with any certainty at all and is making me question wheter to move to a different programme.

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DdeGannes

Community Expert

If you have a Lr Cloud based subscription you have Lr Mobile, for smart phones Android, IPhone and iPad Web and Lr Desktop , see the article at the link below.

If you wish to use Lightroom Classic you will need to subscribe to the Adobe Photography Plan.

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-cc-vs-classic-features/

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

dj_paige

Legend

If you let the Lr Mobile subscription expire, you can't use the Lightroom Mobile SOFTWARE. Your photos are all still on your Android phone.

Your subscription to Lightroom mobile (which you paid for) does not change becuase you are using a free trial of Lightroom Classic or Lightroom. Your photos don't somehow disappear ... Adobe doesn't delete your photos without your permission.

If you have valid subscription to Lightroom Classic or Lightroom, you can end the separate Lightroom Mobile subscription, and still use Lightroom Mobile on your photos under the subscription to Lightroom Classic or Lightroom. You still have access to all of your photos on your phone, and to all of your photos on other devices.

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john28230457ttt2Author

Participant

I was told by one of the online chat advisors that, if I take out the trial then cancel, it would cancel my lightroom mobile account. And that I would have to manually download all my photos first because they would be deleted.

I didn't think that this sounded correct and I seriously question where they find these people.

dj_paige

Legend

The photos are not stored in Lightroom Mobile, they are stored somewhere on your phone, and Adobe does not have the authority to delete files on your phone without your specific permission. It may be that what the person meant is that you would lose your edits in Lightroom Mobile, in which case you would have to export (not download) the photos first to preserve the edits.

If you have a subscription to the Photography Plan (which includes Lightroom Classic and Lightroom -- and used to include Photoshop but doesn't include Photoshop any more unless you are grandfathered in), then you can continue to use Lightroom Mobile and all of your photos that were available in Lightroom Mobile should continue to be available.

You keep talking about the trial; this trial does not change anything about your current usage of Lightroom Mobile. Cancelling your subscription to the Lightroom MObile plan changes things, not adding or using other Adobe software.

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