stop lightroom mobile from syncing all photos

Good Grief, I can't believe this is still going on.  I have scoured the Inernet for a solution and find nothing but complaints since 2017, yet the problem still has not been addressed.

I accidentally turned on the auto add, and Lightroom instantly started syncing the 10,000 photos from my iPhone.  

I have turned it off,  paused the sync, deleted the app and reinstalled it,  deleted all synced data, but still over 2300 images try to sync if I unpause the sync.  The online chat at Adobe had no answers 😞

I am flabbergasted that this obvious fault continues.

I love Lightroom but this is super frustrating!

Same Problem. I have too many photos. 10 thousands. Each big 60MP. And I am in areas without internet. My workflow will ALWAYS depend on internal and external storage. DONT WORK AGAINST YOUR CUSTOMERS ADOBE.

I don't want sync or backup from the Lightroom pad library to Adobe cloud unless I mark it specifically to be synced.

Each file needs an xmp Sidecar. And nothing should be syncing unless I want it to.

Its a huge flaw.

Any soloutions yet..?

Just had lighroom import over 2,000 images from my camera roll which I have to now go through and manually delete all these images.

Mixed in with my actual photography shots I already had on there...

Clearly this is designed to rope people into Adobe Cloud storage. They could sync small smart previews and have the option to not upload DNG / RAW.  It is designed for them not for the convenience haveing access to the photos.  It is why the storage they give you is 100gig which to any professional is nothing. 

The system would be fine id it was all about smart previews. The other issue seems to be that you can just export smart previews use them on an iPad and then export the back to the larger files on a desktop with Classic. 

I am also not sure that you can have it upload the DNG to the cloud and then pull them into Classic.  Its really a half assed system that is designed only around month fees. 

Can someone please answer how to get to Auto Add so I can switch it off please? 

Thanks for your fast reply but I don't use the Lightroom CC and all the photos are captured with professional cameras and imported with a card reader.

I also always have the sync paused.

PZ

Everyone uses their phone for personal and professional uses. It’s inevitable: the best camera is the one you have on you, right?? Who wants personal photos stored on their phone co-mingled in adobe cc cloud used for work (assuming many users of adobe cc  the tools in their professional life). This is a nightmare. Imagine presenting  (or pitching, even worse) on your laptop or iPad (or phone even) and someone asks, “Well, we were there last year, too... pull up some of those photos real quick; I want to make sure we’re assessing this correctly.” Now, you have to sift through the most private vault of your life -- your iphone library — to find those work photos. And someone is looking over your shoulder, or more likely, directly at your screen. Even If the photos aren’t risqué or otherwise damaging, it’s a pain and it looks unprofessional (because it is). Adobe, lead the way, please: make us a pro tool, for pros. This includes thinking about issues like these when you design your products. There must be a better way, in this age of syncing everything, to maintain privacy, effectiveness and decorum.

Terrible how the default is to sync rather than making it an intuitive option. I hate it when an app is doing something without asking and potentially makes storage run out, which will then lead to extra costs. I guess THAT's what's behind the decision to have this feature so darn embedded without a clear signposting to switch it off.

Also not impressed with the warning that deleting from Lightroom CC will also delete from all synced devices. That's bad UX right there.

Thanks.  This is a horrible design decision.  At best, sucking in camera roll photos should be an opt-in setting.

I had the same problem and turned off the setting. It managed to upload 500 photos first, most of which I don't want in LR, however there are a few that I DO want and had already placed in albums. Has anyone found a clever way to delete all of the (mistakenly synced) photos in LR Mobile EXCEPT those that are in an album? The various filter and sort options can't show this, AFAIK. And there is no way to create a smart album on mobile. (There is an "edited" filter which is almost helpful, but there are some photos that I want to save, placed in albums, which have not been edited yet.)