LR Mobile (iPad) Filter by Camera Not Showing All Cameras (Lightroom View)

[marbienk]

I am on iOS 18.5 on an IPad. Subscriber to LR/PR running LR Mobile version 10.4.0.

I imported from multiple SD cards using LR Import right from the card. I can see Camera Information in the Info view for each photo, but only two of the 3 cameras show up under Lightroom View/All Photos/Filter/Camera. Also, the counts are way off.

I have checked and there are no other filters applied that would down select the options.

Furthermore, I have added photos into Albums in Folders. When I am in an album and use Filter by Camera, I get no camera options: it is just blank.

Screenshot attached. Yes I have restarted the iPad.

Thanks in advance 

[marbienk]

I wanted to add that I am not syncing (that is paused): the photos I am trying to filter are simply stored in LR 

[Charlie.D · Accepted solution]

Hello @marbienk 

You need to unpause syncing for Filter by > Camera to work.  That feature relies on metadata analysis from our server to work. That's simply how the current functionality is designed.

[marbienk]

Thank you. I appreciate the answer. And it raises two more questions:

1. If I run out of space in Adobe Cloud while syncing, does filtering then only work for photos that were synced? I understand now that LR iOS is building an index for querying in the cloud, so I assume it only indexes the metadata for photos it syncs--but let me know for sure!

2. Does this same behavior apply to LR (not LR Classic, which indexes via catalogs) on a desktop Mac (Sequoia 15.5)?

thanks Charlie.D!

[Charlie.D]

Hi again @marbienk 

Great question.  When cloud storage is full, both the LR iOS and LR desktop app should still allow you to import.  I am seeing the filtering showing the correct new image counts for my iPhone camera importing new images into my full account, even though these images aren't syncing.