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P: Mobile (iOS): Stuck on a black screen that just says “Loading Photos”

Community Beginner ,
May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019

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Three times in the past few weeks Lightroom Mobile (iOS) has frozen on a black screen that just says “Loading Photos”. It never does load any photos and nothing fixes it except uninstalling and reinstalling the app. I lost an entire day’s worth of work editing a wedding because of this. I had the images stored locally and was disconnected from the internet when the “loading photos” screen came up. Tried letting it sit for hours, restarting the app, rebooting the iPad, and finally had to uninstall and reinstall the app. Doing so deleted all my locally stored images and erased all the editing I had done since the last time I was connected to the internet. Finally re-downloaded all my local copies and now it’s happening again. So be warned... this app is not fit for professional use.

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Adobe Employee ,
May 16, 2019 May 16, 2019

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Thanks for the report Nathan. We've logged a bug and are looking into it. 
Rikk Flohr - Customer Advocacy: Adobe Photography Products

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LEGEND ,
Jun 30, 2019 Jun 30, 2019

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I do have the same problem. Looks like I lost 3 weeks photo edit while travelling :-/
Is there any solution? I did‘t reinstalled the app yet.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 02, 2019 Jul 02, 2019

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Same situation io iPad and iPhone. I noticed it last night but only discovered that it’s complete stuck now.

lightroom Classic and lightroom start on desktop.

So only mobile.

Wonder if it’s cloudflare related ?
[edit : maybe not after seeing the time stamps on previous messages]

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LEGEND ,
Jul 03, 2019 Jul 03, 2019

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Same problem here... don't want to reinstall the app as I was offline for almost 3 weeks while travelling abroad. Any update ? 

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 07, 2019 Jul 07, 2019

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Same problem.. this is really unacceptable. I had this problem now for the third time. I need an option where I can at least backup the edits without the photos if I don’t have fast internet at hand. (on the road / on assignment..) then I could at least relink the edits back to the photos later so I wouldn’t loose hours of work. (f.e. See how you can backup edits in davinci Resolve for example) 

Now I need to carry my MacBook with me again, when I’m out on assignment

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 08, 2019 Jul 08, 2019

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Greetings - for those of you currently experiencing this issue, do you set your device time automatically or manually?
Rikk Flohr - Customer Advocacy: Adobe Photography Products

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LEGEND ,
Jul 09, 2019 Jul 09, 2019

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automatically.
Setting to manually didn‘t change anything.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 10, 2019 Jul 10, 2019

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I've set it to automatically

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LEGEND ,
Jul 15, 2019 Jul 15, 2019

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Same problem... (time was set to automatically).
Is there any chance to recover my edits without losing them?

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LEGEND ,
Sep 11, 2019 Sep 11, 2019

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Finally, the problem is solved with the latest Update on iPhone 🙂

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LEGEND ,
Jul 15, 2020 Jul 15, 2020

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Hi, is there any solution for this issue? Since yesterday it is frozen and then stuck on a black screen. I tried to uninstall and reinstall it again and it works usually only for few minutes and then the same issue. I have iPadOS 13.5.1 and never had any issue with the app before. Thanks.

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 15, 2020 Jul 15, 2020

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What is your current installed version of Lightroom? 
Rikk Flohr - Customer Advocacy: Adobe Photography Products

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LEGEND ,
Jul 15, 2020 Jul 15, 2020

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Thanks for quick response - I have v.5.3.1.53B120

I restarted my iPad several times and now it seems it's working properly (hopefully no further issues)

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