P: Upgrading to Sequoia breaks tethering

[thinkingmind]

Hi,

I am having issues in Tethering shoot, whereby lightroom will not connect to live view (but is able to import files from camera) and just hangs, it has to be killed in order quit. I am using lightroom on Intel Mac with MacOS Sequoia, camera is Canon 650D. Camera is able to connect via eos utlity and show live view.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

TM

[johnrellis]

"I ended up using Capture One to capture my images through tethering and then use the Auto Import function to bring them into Lightroom Classic. "

A similar, less-expensive (but perhaps less featureful) workaround is to use the tethering utilities from the camera manufacturers (e.g. Canon EOS Utility).

[Mike32381554vjbx]

Same here, Using Capture One and sending the images to a folder where I can import to LRC.  This is a real pain, wish they would sort it!

[Lumigraphics]

This has happened with the last few new OS versions. Apple and/or Adobe will have to figure it out.

I am a product photographer and much prefer using EOS Utility for tethering, its free and works great.

[CommaCreative]

Hi everyone,

I’m encountering an issue when using the Tethered Capture feature in Lightroom Classic with my Canon R6. Every time I try to use this feature, Lightroom Classic freezes. I’ve tried the following steps to resolve the issue, but nothing seems to work:

• Restarted my MacBook Pro
• Downgraded to an earlier version of Lightroom Classic
• Updated my Canon R6 firmware (currently on firmware version 1.9.0)

Important note: I didn’t experience this issue before updating to macOS 15.0.

Here are my current specs:

• Computer: MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16-inch 2021
• macOS version: 15.0
• Lightroom Classic version: v13.5.1
• Camera: Canon R6, firmware version 1.9.0

Has anyone else experienced this issue or found a solution? I’d really appreciate any advice or assistance. Thanks!

[moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

[CommaCreative]

Update: macOS Version: 15.0.1

[johnrellis]

@CommaCreative, as you can see in the merged thread, this issue started with Mac OS 15 (Sequoia) and (so far) affects just Canon cameras.  Problems tethering and importing via USB seemingly occur with each major release of Mac OS, and Adobe implies that it's something Apple will have to fix in a future release of Mac OS. Note that LR relies on a tethering library supplied by Canon, so it may require Canon and Apple to get their act together. 

Workarounds:

1. Roll back to Mac OS 14 (which Apple makes very painful).

2. Use Capture One or Canon EOS Utility to tether into a folder, and configure LR's File > Auto Import to import automatically from there.

[Mike32381554vjbx]

I can confirm, that with the update issued for LRC today, it has resolved the tethering issue with my R7.

[johnrellis]

Though it's not listed in Adobe's Fixed Issues In Lightroom Classic (14.0), the Lightroom Queen's release notes say that "Canon Tether SDK updated to support macOS Sequoia". So contrary to what Adobe implied before, this could indeed be a bug in LR, not Mac OS 15.   

To help others, please report here whether or not upgrading to LR 14 fixes your problems with tethering Canons. @Mike32381554vjbx has already reported that it 14 fixes the problem with tethering his R7.

[Marco Basile Images]

Hello everyone,

If you have upgraded to the new Lightroom Classic 14.0 and Photoshop 2025,, can you confirm that these will work correctly with Mac Sequoia 15.0.1, including tethering to Nikon? Thank you! 

[johnrellis]

"including tethering to Nikon"

Note that this thread is specific to problems with Canon tethering, so you might want to post your query in another thread.

[IvanoTls]

I was facing the same tethering issue  on MacOS Sequoia 15.1., Lightroom 14.0.1 and my camera Nikon D850.

In the MacOs settings  Private & Security/ Files & Folders  / Adobe Lightroom Classic, the Network Volumes and Removable Volumes options were set to OFF. I switched them to ON and now  tethering work seamlessly again.

 
Try this - the tethering issue might not be related to the kind of camera (Nikon/Canon) but rather to these missing Lightroom permissions.

[bradleyskaggs]

Oh wow, I will. I didn’t even think about that but it makes sense. Thanks
for sharing.

-b

[terryg47610459]

I see LR Classic in files and folders. Where do you see Network volumes and Removable volumes?

[terryg47610459]

[IvanoTls]

It's likely because you've granted Lightroom full disk access, which I wouldn't recommend for any application. Try removing Full Disk Access from Lightroom and the other option should appear.

[terryg47610459]

Okay, thank you. The Adobe help team actually did that. I'll try what you
are saying. Thank you again!

Have a nice day!

~Terry~

[terryg47610459]

 Your solution was the only one that helped. It took a while to figure it out but I did! Thank you!

[Rene2412]

@IvanoTls Dankeschön, das war die Lösung! ❤️

[nicolas_6004]

Thanks for that.  It apply exactly the same to Capture One !!

[PedalGeoff]

This worked for me! I'm connecting a Canon 5D Mark IV to Sequoia 15.2 and Lightroom Classic 14.1.1.

Removeable Volumes was turned off. I turned that on, restarted Lightroom and voila, it worked.

Thanks!!

[marianr97404013]

Where did you that? Is it in LR Preferences somehere?

[johnrellis]

@marianr97404013: "Where did you that? Is it in LR Preferences somehere?"

See this previous post:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-upgrading-to-sequoia-breaks-tethering...

If you see Full Disk Access listed, that subsumes Network Volumes and Removable Volumes and no need to change it. Adobe used to recommend Full Disk Access before they changed their installers.

[marianr97404013]

I allowed Lr full disk access but the tether still does not work. The
camera is not discovered by Lr. Coincidentally the same version of Lr
installed in my Windows 10 desktop PC works fine including tether with my
5D4.

[johnrellis]

@marianr97404013, you could try working through Adobe's troubleshooting steps:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-tethered-capture-lightroom.html

[marianr97404013]

I tried everything in Adobe troubleshooting to no avail. Same cable, same
everything it works fine on my PC W10