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[Rodney Liuzzo]

Ive loved using Lightroom mobile on my iPhone and iPad but I've noticed that after deleting all photos on my phone from Lightroom, the app is still taking up 5+GB of space. It's as if the Lightroom isn't releasing the iPhone and iPad memory. I've cleared the cache, and restarted the phone but my iPhone and iPad both are still reporting that Lightroom is taking 5+GB. I've logged into my Creative Cloud account and verified that I have no assets in my library. Any idea of what else to try?

I too am having this issue. I just deleted a ton of photos from Lightroom Mobile, but my iPhone 7 does not show any difference in the gigabytes being used by the app in settings. The photos have been removed, but the app is taking up 10.35 GB of space on my iphone.

When I plugged in my iPhone into my laptop and then looked in iTunes under my iPhone->Apps->Lightroom I saw that there was a 5GB directory shown. I copied this directory to my laptop and inspected it's contents. One of the sub-folders had a whole bunch of pictures that I had imported into Lightroom mobile but had since removed from my mobile collections and were not in the Lightroom Mobile "Lightroom Photos".

I ended up deleting Lightroom mobile from both my iPhone and iPad and then reinstalling. This deleted the folder I had found on my iPhone from within iTunes and thus Lightroom mobile is now taking up a reasonable amount of space. This is a workaround. I hope Adobe corrects the issue within Lightroom Mobile as I don't want to have to delete and reinstall Lightroom Mobile every couple of months.

I'm suffering from same issue. I'm using now Lightroom for iOS more and more due to HDR mode added during recent versions. I typically shoot a few dozens of pictures during the days collecting some 2-10GB of pictures, which I delete once I have synchronised everything with Lightroom Desktop and imported the pictures to offline storage. Despite seeing the pictures vanish from all synced devices Lightroom Mobile continues to occupy gigabytes of storage, trying to clear cache doesn't help.

I reinstalled the app again seeing Documents & Data occupying 2MB or so as fresh install. I took random 35 pictures seeing the storage consumption to rise to 772MB. I then waited for the sync to complete, and this time instead of deleting the pictures from desktop Lightroom, I first cleared the iOS Lightroom cache via 'Clear Cache' option. To my surprise, this action did work now as expected, and I saw the consumption of Documents & Data to again hit 20MB or so.

So unless this was just fixed in latest point release, try to first release the storage by clearing caches BEFORE deleting any pictures. Only once this action is done -> remove / delete synced pictures or pictures from the device.

Originally had the same issue too. If on the iOS Lightroom mobile then you can go to your settings and click local storage. Hadn't done it before and found about 4 gb of data just chilling in there but you can click clear cache and it gets rid of it without deleting the app.

I'm having issues with Lightroom Mobile. When I shoot in ProRAW on my iPhone 12 Pro, the result is usually crisp contrast and bright whites. However, when I open that image in Lightroom Mobile (using the Apple ProRAW profile) and export it back to the iPhone's camera roll having made no changes, the image is dull and has lost its contrast. I also tried it with Apple HEIC and JPG files, and the same thing happens. It's maddening. I first discovered this when I opened a ProRAW image in Lightroom Mobile to make no changes other than to use the Healing tool to remove a mark. When I exported it back to the camera roll, the image lacked the contrast of the original. Please advise, and thank you for your time.

Thank you for the quick reply. After experimenting further with Lightroom Mobile's color space and other settings, I'm learning that none of that matters. This seems to be an issue with how the iPhone displays photos in the Photos app. An original photo with bright whites, such as sun through an open window, will display as very bright white with plenty of contrast in the Photos app. If I send that photo to another app, such as Lightroom Mobile or Snapshot, the whites appear dimmer. If I export the photo from Lightroom Mobile back to the camera roll (Photos app), the whites appear much dimmer in the exported photo compared with the original. Even if I take a screen capture of the original bright photo, the whites in the screen capture appear much dimmer than the original photo. I can't even send you an example, because if that photo goes anywhere else, the whites are dimmer and the photo has less contrast than the way the original looks in the Photos app. For example, I transfered the original photo and the dimmer Lightroom Mobile export photo both to my MacBook, and side-by-side in Photoshop they are absolutely identical. The same is happening on my wife's iPhone 13. The Photos app seems to be displaying out-of-camera photos with more brightness and contrast than they actually have. This can't be an isolated incident, so I'll search Google for an answer. Thank you again.

Darren, wow crazy that i am having the same issues you did.. I edit on my Macbook and use lightroom CC on my phone to save directly to my Iphone Photos. Noticing that when i saved on some of my ocean images the colors are truly very off and have no contrast. I just want to confirm, that turning off the HDR setting in photos allows us now to keep that same image from Lightroom -> Photos without the loss of detail. This is inherintly non intuitive by apple . thanks

When "View Full HDR" is turned on in the settings, it simply means that the out-of-camera photos in your Photos app will look different in the Photos app than they will anywhere else that you view them. It's altering the way they look in the Photos app only. Turning off "View Full HDR" will allow you to see photos in the Photos app as they would look in other apps, such as in Lightroom Mobile or even in Instagram. If the photos that you take on your iPhone are going to be viewed anywhere other than YOUR iPhone -- like in Instagram, or texted to friends, or sent to your MacBook, or printed, than you'd be wise to turn off "View Full HDR."

Just for clarification, enabling "Full HDR" does not process the photos to make them more contrasty, it actually shows the (already existing) extended dynamic range in the photo in a similar way HDR movies are displayed in an HDR capable tv. That means the brightness of the image is not bounded from 0 to 1 (0 to 255), but can go beyond that.

The fact Instagram (or any other "consumer" platform doesn't show the full dynamic range of the image it's because they only accept srgb images (instagram actually allows to upload HDR videos tho in stories i believe and those are shown in full dynamic range).

(Same story if you transfer those images to a desktop computer, most monitors are still not hdr capable and even if they are depending on the software you may not see the full hdr image. Affinity photo allows you to see the full hdr image with a compatible monitor)

Giancarlo, thanks for replying. I can't think of any reason someone would want to have this turned on. It's giving them a false representation of their photos in the sense that their photos will look different viewed on any other screen -- including social media sites and/or other people's phones (including iPhones). So the user (with Full HDR turned on) edits a photo to make it beautiful, then posts it to Instagram or Facebook, or texts it to a friend where it looks totally different. How is that helpful? It's ridiculous. Any user would want to see their photos as others will see them so that they can make proper edits if needed.

If you print your photos sure you won't get an emissive paper and the brightest pixels of the image will be paper white, but since modern screens are capable of that it's just a matter of time and support.

Also, if you shoot RAW with a decent camera the RAW file itself already has a larger dynamic range than a standard JPEG (brightness is linear and can go above 1) and you could in theory make an HDR photo with that. The problem is software support, both by editing software and viewing apps.

And something is already moving:

Also, I had turned off video HDR (which is under camera settings), and you could see the difference between the photos and videos in the iphone photo library. Now I have turned off HDR in photo settings, and things are much more consistent [especially when I import to my desktop!]

So, some new info: In LR mobile under app settings > Import, there is an 'HDR edit mode for new photos'. This processes HEIF/HEIC and JPEG images in real time as you open them - with an RGB histogram showing this happening. Doesn't work for DNG's.

[Another thing: Make sure you have your colour space warnings turned on so you can keep track of things when using Bridge / ACR / LR / PS etc. iphone jpegs and HEIC/F's seem to come with the P3 space].

Thank you! I couldn't figure out what was happening. I toggled that off. I'd rather have consistency and loose the brightness. There is one app that seems to support that setting. It's called Retouch. That software also supports HEIF.

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 for the input and have recently been using the app ReeXpose which has some more advanced long expo features and saves out as RAW. Still miss the LR feature all the same for those quick and easy grabs.

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