How do you prevent cloud sync in Lightroom?

My solution was to edit Privacy & Security settings on my iOS devices and limit the access of Lightroom to my camera roll to specific albums.

Now, I'll tell my user story to Lightroom product managers if they ever read it.

I'm using Lightroom for professional usage and have it on my iPhone and IPad for a quick edit. And it's pretty annoying when personal photos from my phone's camera roll get uploaded and fill in plenty of space in my Lightroom DB storage by default, and no way to turn it off from within the app. What would be much more valuable for me is the possibility of integrating my

central storage on a NAS into a "hybrid cloud," with the ability to back up, edit and share some of them on demand. This would be a unique feature, unlike just selling gigabytes of mobile sync, as everyone else does as well...

As have been mentioned here in the answers - the LR classic would be your best friend in this. The downside to that, in my experience is that if you have LRC on multiple units (say a stationary and a laptop) you would have to move your library between them. Which can be dreadfully timeconsuming. 

However, if you want to stick with the "cloudbased lightroom" you can disable syncing via the Creative cloud app. That way you can pause the syncing before opening LR and it won´t sync your photos. After closing LR you can enable syncing again (in case you are using other adobe apps across platforms)

Hope that helps !

Same for me...

2 TB of photos that have to be saved on a 0.1 TB cloud?
And, once filled up, that prevents me from using any other sync and reviewing features of the other softwares?
And I would have to pay 800 € for a 2TB space at Adobe's, when it is available at 60 €, for instance with Infomaniak's kDrive?

Of course I won't use this Adobe solution, and uninstalls Lightroom CC immediatly.

I uninstalled Lightroom CC and I'm not looking back. The application is slow, it gets colors all wrong, and this 'mandatory' cloud sync thing is finally pushing me over the edge.

I don't have a problem with using the cloud. I have a problem with being forced to use YOUR cloud. It completely disrupts my workflow and in fact makes me less productive becuase my bandwidth gets consumed by a service I never opted into.

Adobe, you really screwed up with this one. You were better off adding a cloud sync backend to Lightroom. Pros rely on these tools, and over two years after you launched CC, it's nowhere close to being ready to be the flagship. This is embarrassing.

Feeling very sad, LR CC has taken tons of my personal photo's and uploaded them into the cloud. I don't want all my photo's there only a select few. is there a way to undo this?

I have say 60,000 photo's from over the years, stored in my cheap cloud solution. I want to upload say 5000 to LR CC of my own choosing after I have identified the keepers. can I use the new LR to view my local photo's with out uploading them?

it'd be nice if I could have one storage for all photo's and just "tag" cloud selections.. like making folders and albums for sharing.

I am in this boat as well: I am not a pro so I tend to shoot A LOT, that way out of 900 photos I might have 20-30 from a weekend trip to Colorado that are worth exploring, editing and sharing.  The others?  Well, I don't feel like paying for them to be stored on "The Cloud", whatever that means.

(Yes, I know what the Cloud is I am speaking from an Orwellian point of view as a dystopian skeptic.)

I am good with sharing the good ones.  I don't need 1TB of cloud storage for all my mediocre photography!

Okay, easy enough - use Classic and sync collections.  NOPE!  Apparently that no longer works.  Fortunately, I have a private server and I can provide my own "cloud" storage, so I will go that route.  Want more space?  Go to Wal-Mart and buy another 3 TB hard drive!  I think I like this option better than wimpy Lightroom CC.

The answer is to stay with Classic the whole point of CC is cloud support.

If you are not interested in that level of cloud storage stick with CC Classic it still has more features than the new CC, you can add on additional Cloud Storage for those images you do want to send up, and Adobe says that it will continue to fully support and develop CC Classic.

hardyc42159841  wrote I only use it on my desktop and don't want my photos uploaded without my explicit permission and decision. Should I just stay with classic

Yes, you should stay with Lightroom Classic and keep sync turned off. Lightroom Classic is designed around photos being stored on your computer, so it's what you want.

Lightroom CC uses the cloud as central storage for multiple devices, so although you could force it to not connect, that would go against how it's designed.

You can click the cloud icon to pause the cloud sync. You'd miss out on the automatic intelligence search though.