Erase not working
for the past few years, the app has worked wonderfully when it came to editing photos taken on my camera. Till recently, the remove button to erase or remove certain things has not been working as it should. Originally I thought it was my WiFi, however with everything else being checked I ultimately came to the conclusion that it is the app itself. I’m thinking this may be a bug that needs to be fixed.
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Keeps crashing
Presets are making the pgm crash
A scam
Adobe won’t let me restore a deleted photo because I don’t have enough cloud space. What a joke, I have tons of IPad space and that’s what matters to me, but instead I’m being coerced into purchasing more cloud space. F that. F Adobe.
Predatory tactics to keep customers
I’m happy to have left that island that makes it difficult to leave. There are plenty of apps that do the same thing, pay a one time price, plus updates and don’t have to get your bank account attacked by these people. Thank you for all you offer, Apple.
Missing basic features
It is ok and loads the photos fast but Lightroom was traditionally for organising and as such it is missing basic features such as the ability to adjust what information is displayed I can choose from a variety of camera info and date (some of which I don’t need but can’t turn off) or exposure but not a combination of both. Also iPads are light for travelling but there is no way to adjust photo metadata on the iPad version for time zones - this is super easy on Lightroom classic. I found this program harder to learn to use perhaps because I was looking for stuff that wasn’t there. I found the whole sync situation difficult and couldn’t find an option that said store photo locally /transfer files to cloud - I would much prefer this to it automatically filling up the cloud - which I can’t work out how to fix without deleting photos (I would like the copies on the iPad they came from). For some reason my presets don’t load on iPad- I suspect because it automatically filled the cloud with photos but I bought a iPad with storage for a reason.
A year later this review is still how I feel about Lightroom no ability to search via camera for raw photos.or batch rename files.
Edited to add, this program is no longer usable for me as I have filled up the space on the cloud and filled up the space on the iPad, they lack of ability to store photos anywhere but adobe cloud or in the app makes it unusable, I would like to be able to save photos in the files section or on an external hard drive so that 8 can edit them on the iPad, I much prefer to edit on the iPad but without the option of external storage it is simple not possible, and yes it also still annoys me that I can’t do simple meta data searches.
A year later this review is still how I feel about Lightroom no ability to search via camera for raw photos.or batch rename files.
Edited to add, this program is no longer usable for me as I have filled up the space on the cloud and filled up the space on the iPad, they lack of ability to store photos anywhere but adobe cloud or in the app makes it unusable, I would like to be able to save photos in the files section or on an external hard drive so that 8 can edit them on the iPad, I much prefer to edit on the iPad but without the option of external storage it is simple not possible, and yes it also still annoys me that I can’t do simple meta data searches.
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Been inconsistent
Been using it for a while with hardly no issues. Within the past week, some of my presets quit working, will not load photos from my device, will not load the presets with my photos already in the app, and will not download them.
Recadrage?
J’édite et travaille mes photos seulement à partir de mon IPad. Je trouve cela plus pratique que sur l’ordi … Donc, j’ai la version payante . Cependant avec cette dernière version (mai 2026), il n’y a plus la fonction ratio personnalisé … 🙁je n’ai plus la possibilité de choisir un ratio de recadrage qui me convient . Je ne choisi pas toujours des ratios conventionnels ( ceci fait parti de ma démarche ) . Les ratios proposés pour les différents réseaux sociaux ne me conviennent pas toujours . Vous perdez une étoile pour ceci … c’est une limitation majeure pour moi . Le reste des fonctions me conviennent bien.
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Don’t get the subscription
The app is good, with good features, but when I need to cancel it they charge me 60$ it’s outrageous. Just let me cancel instead of scamming me
Misleading, lost hundreds of hours of work
Archiving photos to disk removes them from albums. Hours and hours of careful archiving and cataloguing lost in a minute. Do not trust lightroom or adobe for proper photography / photobook editing work.
Subscription based app
This is a subscription based app, which means you’ll never own it and will have to keep paying forever just to use it. No matter how well made an app is, if it’s a subscription based app, it is a bad app. There is no such thing as a good subscription based app. Avoid at all costs
Price change
I have been using Lightroom for years now and the features are great for what I need. However, the recent 40% price jump from £4.99 to £6.99 a month is pretty atrocious! I may have to sadly begin a search for a new app as, knowing Adobe, they will most definitely do this again…
Frustrating and Disappointing if you are a professional photographer.
Lightroom mobile on the iPad is not for the professional photographer. Adobe really has dropped the ball with this app. I had a dream of editing everything on my 2tb iPad Pro m4, but it’s impossible and frustrating. I switched from my legacy adobe cloud 20gb plan to the 1tb plan, and that was also a big mistake. There is no way i could edit a wedding or a day’s worth of wildlife photos from one of the trips that i lead on Lightroom mobile for the IPad. First, good luck getting all of the photos imported. Second, the app is unreliable, even after importing and having the album stored locally, there is always issues. Nothing worse than being out in the bush wanting to edit photos on your iPad and you can’t because Lightroom mobile did not save your photos correctly and due to the lack of the internet, you can’t access the photos or your presets. Noise reduction is pretty terrible on the iPad as well. The phone version of Lightroom is better than the iPad. Adobe should abandon Lightroom mobile for the iPad and make a “classic” version where one can import their catalog and photos and not really on adobes unstable and slow cloud for edits. Adobe Lightroom mobile is not for the professional photographer, it may work for the casual user who just wants basic editing. Save your time and money and just stick with your MacBook.
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Just make it LrC already
Please stop trying to make this version of Lightroom a thing and make the actually useful Lightroom Classic available on the iPad. There is no reason that all the functionality of LrC can’t be implemented here.
What a joke
None stop “settings are too large for this device” despite having newest tablet, tons of memory and only creating couple of masks!!
Error when copying settings
Can’t copy and paste settings. App gives an error. Can’t create presets either. Fix it
Great app for iPad
Overall, this is a very good app for photo editing on my iPad Pro with Apple Pencil. Everything seems to work as intended. My iPad does get hot and the app starts to lag a little but other than that it’s a fantastic app. Now here’s the real reason I gave it a four star instead of a five. The brush tool on here should have auto masking so when you’re painting with the brush, you don’t go outside of the lines of what you’re masking.
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No Email Support, Broken Forum Posting, and Missing Pro Features
I’m posting this here because Lightroom provides no way to send product feedback directly by email. On iPad, reaching support pages or attempting to provide feedback requires navigating through Help/Support, opening the Adobe Community site in a browser, and signing in with an Adobe ID just to write a comment. What could be sent in a quick email instead becomes a multi-step process simply to submit feedback.
Even after reaching the correct page, such as the feature suggestion section, the submission system itself is unreliable. The “Create a post” button is difficult to locate and not positioned near the posts where users would expect it. The “Looking for suggestions…” button, intended to check for duplicate requests, frequently hangs and never loads, preventing the post from being submitted at all. In my case the page simply stalled and would not allow the post to go through, meaning I could not even submit the suggestion after completing the entire process.
This adds yet another layer of friction to what should be a straightforward feedback process. After finally reaching this forum, users are expected to understand posting rules, search through thousands of threads and comments to avoid duplicates, and participate in a voting system. For many people trying to submit feedback in the middle of their editing workflow, this is unrealistic. Most users do not have the time to review large numbers of existing posts, recruit others to vote, or track forum etiquette just to communicate a product issue. Product feedback should not depend on navigating a forum system.
Lightroom CC is a professional subscription product. A simple public email address for Lightroom product feedback would allow users to communicate suggestions efficiently without navigating multiple pages and authentication steps.
Two requests:
1. Numeric tone curve entry in Lightroom CC (especially on iPad). The tone curve currently requires dragging points on a graph. Exact input/output values cannot be typed, and on iPad the numbers are not visible at all. This makes it difficult to reproduce tone curves or build consistent presets.
2. Full People masking on Lightroom CC for iPad. Desktop CC allows masks for skin, hair, eyes, lips, clothing, and other detailed selections. On iPad masking is often limited to broader selections such as subject or background. The same segmentation tools should exist on the iPad version.
Even after reaching the correct page, such as the feature suggestion section, the submission system itself is unreliable. The “Create a post” button is difficult to locate and not positioned near the posts where users would expect it. The “Looking for suggestions…” button, intended to check for duplicate requests, frequently hangs and never loads, preventing the post from being submitted at all. In my case the page simply stalled and would not allow the post to go through, meaning I could not even submit the suggestion after completing the entire process.
This adds yet another layer of friction to what should be a straightforward feedback process. After finally reaching this forum, users are expected to understand posting rules, search through thousands of threads and comments to avoid duplicates, and participate in a voting system. For many people trying to submit feedback in the middle of their editing workflow, this is unrealistic. Most users do not have the time to review large numbers of existing posts, recruit others to vote, or track forum etiquette just to communicate a product issue. Product feedback should not depend on navigating a forum system.
Lightroom CC is a professional subscription product. A simple public email address for Lightroom product feedback would allow users to communicate suggestions efficiently without navigating multiple pages and authentication steps.
Two requests:
1. Numeric tone curve entry in Lightroom CC (especially on iPad). The tone curve currently requires dragging points on a graph. Exact input/output values cannot be typed, and on iPad the numbers are not visible at all. This makes it difficult to reproduce tone curves or build consistent presets.
2. Full People masking on Lightroom CC for iPad. Desktop CC allows masks for skin, hair, eyes, lips, clothing, and other detailed selections. On iPad masking is often limited to broader selections such as subject or background. The same segmentation tools should exist on the iPad version.
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How to lose a gallery
This app doesn’t fully account for the iPadOS status bar, notch, or top menu. In Lightroom (or similar apps), the interface is “crowded” at the top, & the app is unusable.
Error when copying settings
Can’t copy and paste settings. App gives an error. Fix
Needs updates
Wonderful program, super quick. And easy. My only complaint is that there’s no AI noise reduction. Please add that adobe. Please. It’s so close to fully featured, why not just add the couple of features?
Also. Why can’t I open an image on iCloud Drive.
Also. Why can’t I open an image on iCloud Drive.
