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Participating Frequently
June 12, 2023
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P: What’s happened to Depth Capture & Long Exposure Tech Previews on iPhone?

  • June 12, 2023
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I know long exposure mode is a tech preview but have been using successfully for last few years and up until yesterday. 

Opened newly updated app today (v.8.4.0) on iPhone 14 Pro and appears to have disappeared? Am I missing something? Where is this incredibly productive feature to be found?

8 replies

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
June 13, 2025

If you are interested in Long Exposure photography, you might enjoy trying out the Project Indigo Camera App from Adobe Labs: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-discussions/p-introducing-the-project-indigo-camera-app/td-p/15337510 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Participant
September 21, 2023

Oh please, bring it back!

I was so happy to use it when I got my new iPhone 14PRO but found out it's not available anymore 😞

Participating Frequently
July 19, 2023

What's happened to the great tool on the Lightroom app to take the long exposures it's just disappeared so I just cannot find it anymore. I wanted to use it the other day I couldn't use it started to do some great shots with it 

dariop3390064
Known Participant
June 30, 2023

I'm really dissapointed! Long exposures was an excellent feature and now , after many years, it has been removed!!Adobe please release it soon, thanks 

Participant
June 20, 2023

Bonjour, j'ai installé la nouvelle version de Lightroom Mobile sur mon iPhone 12, malheureusement je ne trouve plus la fonction pose longue qui se trouvait normalement dans l'onglet Aperçus de technologie.

Est-ce que quelqu'un pourrait m'aider ?

Merci

Participant
June 20, 2023

Hola, en la nueva actualización 8.4 no encuentro por ningún lado la opción de larga exposición para capturar fotos. 

Participant
June 13, 2023

Last update deleted the capabilitie D; can't believe its 

Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 13, 2023

Long Exposure was a 'Technology Preview'. As such, there was no guarantee that it would remain part of the application.

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
June 12, 2023

Greetings,

 

Long Exposure and Depth Capture have been removed from the Lightroom Mobile Apps.

 

Adobe tests and experiments with potential features as Tech Previews from time to time in Lightroom Mobile. Not all of those features are eventually released as full-fledged features within the App. Effective with versions 8.4 of Lightroom Mobile these features are no longer available.

 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
alkeddieAuthor
Participating Frequently
June 12, 2023

Thanks for your quick reply and would like to express my deep disappointment about long exposure mode being removed and only hope it will be fully implemented soon. As a tool for creatove photography within lightroom itself I found it really really great and practiced much of my mobile icm abstract photography with great effect. Hope you will pass on my 5 star appreciation of that mode to the relevant team and look forward to its reappearance soon. Meantime, I have workarounds but will miss the ease this mode offered within the app itself. 

thanks

Rick.Williams
Known Participant
June 13, 2023

For what it’s worth the app Spectre works really well for this. You can also change Live Photos to long exposure in the Apple Photos app.