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ColdForest
ColdForest
Inspiring
December 27, 2016
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Lightroom Mobile: Selecting Multiple Images for Deletion

  • December 27, 2016
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There must be a way to select multiple images in the LRM app (latest Android version on a Note 5), but I can't seem to find it. I repeatedly end up going to each image, then perform a long press in order to bring up the menu, selecting "Remove" and then further selecting "Remove" again (in response to the "Remove from Collection" dialog). Doing this for any more than one or two images at a time is exceedling cumbersome. I must be missing something?? Is there a better way?

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    Correct answer wmcnair2

    OK so I just found this on another thread:

    "When in the folder (where you want to select multiple images) yo can see an arrow looking upwards on the top right of the screen. Tap that and then select remove. (when in general grid view) Then it lets you select multiple images. "

    This works. As it turns out, the gestures needed are not quite intuitive as when you get there, you don't know if you can select multiple photos until you select a few. Thanks.

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    kapilk90184910
    kapilk90184910
    New Participant
    August 14, 2017

    Hi All,

    Tried deleting multiple images in Lr mobile on an Ipad and it worked fine.

    Try selecting one image and then click for more option and then you will find an option by the name "change image order"

    After selecting this option it allows us to select multiple images at once and then we can delete them if we want to.@

    J
    johnb85879550
    Participating Frequently
    October 20, 2017

    Deleting multiple photos is not intuitive, because you first click on "Delete" and then select what to delete. Fortunately, it's actually simple:

    Navigate to "All Photos."

    Click on the three dots icon (top right).

    On the pop up menu click "Delete"

    Then either touch each thumbnail, individually, that you want to delete.
    Click on Trashcan (top right within the blue bar at the top of the screen).

    Pop up will appear. Click "Delete."

    Note: If there is a group of adjacent photos that you want to delete, tap the first thumbnail, but don't lift your finger. Then drag your finger over the adjacent thumbnails you want to delete. This will select them, until you lift your finger. Then delete.

    W
    wmcnair2
    New Participant
    January 16, 2017

    I am interested in this issue as well. I know that it is possible because I have accidentally stumbled into the feature and used it  (from my android cellphone running the Lightroom Mobile app) to select a bunch of photos and then delete them. I cannot find documentation of the finger gestures needed to enable multiple picks of the photos.

    W
    wmcnair2Correct answer
    New Participant
    January 16, 2017

    OK so I just found this on another thread:

    "When in the folder (where you want to select multiple images) yo can see an arrow looking upwards on the top right of the screen. Tap that and then select remove. (when in general grid view) Then it lets you select multiple images. "

    This works. As it turns out, the gestures needed are not quite intuitive as when you get there, you don't know if you can select multiple photos until you select a few. Thanks.

    ColdForest
    ColdForestAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 16, 2017

    Yup, that was it! Thank you! Amazing, I use LRM and LRDesktop all the time and I can't believe I wasn't able to find this - wasted a lot of time up and until now deleting images individually .

    ColdForest
    ColdForestAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 4, 2017

    Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this? Or is there a better forum for LRM (Android) content? Thx.

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