Access vs Synch

[A Likely Storey]

Good evening.

I use Lightroom Classic on a MacBook and have synching turned on, although I don’t have any collections yet.

I also use Lightroom Mobile on an iPhone 14.  My iPhone camera roll has a bout 6k photos, most of which DON’T need to be in LR. But some do. 

If I grant LR Mobile “access” to my entire iPhone camera roll, will that entire camera roll then be synched up to the cloud?

I think that only happens if I turn on “Auto-Add” in the app settings, right? (Which I haven’t).

And so then…the only iPhone camera roll photos that would synch from the phone up to the cloud are the specific ones I’ve “added” to LR mobile on the phone and/or edited in LR mobile on the phone, and/or shot with the LR Mobile camera. Correct?

And then those would be accessible in LR Classic (assuming synching is active there).

Do I have all that correct?

Thx, Storey.

[selondon · Accepted solution]

Yes indeed, if you don't turn Auto Add on in Lightroom Mobile then the only files that will

sync to the Cloud are one that you manually import (via the blue button or the device tab) or take with the Camera within Lightroom.

Then, if sync is tuned on in LIghtroom Classic those imported photos will sync down from the Cloud to the folder designated in Classic's Preferences.

[A Likely Storey]

Outstanding, thank you.