Last updated on
Jun 18, 2026
Find out about the latest updates, new features, and bug fixes in recent Adobe Lightroom releases.
June 2026
Feature updates
- Use the Faces panel in Assisted Culling Info to view every detected face in an image, along with its Eyes open and Eyes sharpness scores, to quickly identify the best shot.
- Enhance image sharpness, restore lost detail, and improve clarity in blurred photos with AI Sharpen, powered by Topaz.
- Turn your photos into short videos with custom or preset text prompts to quickly bring your creative ideas to life.
- Distinguish your subject from busy backgrounds with improved subject detection and selection when masking.
- Modify color labels and add up to five new custom labels to better align with your workflow, making it easier to organize projects, identify priorities, and track edits.
- Control tonal adjustments of your image like Exposure, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks through Histogram for faster, more intuitive editing.
- Enhance images shot with newly added DJI and Canon camera models and Canon and Sony lenses in Lightroom desktop.
- Explore critical bug fixes.
May 2026
Feature updates
- Enhance images from the latest Sony Alpha 7R VI camera in Lightroom.
April 2026
Feature updates
- Specify Edit in Photoshop settings before editing your Lightroom photos in Photoshop.
- Assisted Culling can now better handle images shot with shallow depth of field, reducing false rejections of photos with intentional background blur. The reject filter is now more accurate across a wider range of scenarios, and a new slider gives you finer control over how strictly exposure issues are flagged.
- Create separate XMP and ACR sidecar files for raw images in the Local tab.
- Experience faster Presets, Profiles, and Distraction Removal panels.
- The White balance previews are now improved.
- Critical bug fixes and known issues.
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February 2026
Feature updates
- Assisted Culling is now smarter and more accurate with improved subject identification and eye‑open detection to speed up your workflow.
- You can now copy photos directly to an album when moving them from Local to Cloud.
- Experience improved Denoise quality for some Ricoh and Pentax cameras.
- Experience interactive performance improvements for Crop, Masking, Remove, and Red Eye.
December 2025
Feature updates
- Culling Scores are recalculated after an image edit.
- You can now select any parent folder location when creating new albums and folders in Cloud.
- Undo is now enabled for Batch Rename.
- Share photos and photo albums through a private link or QR code, with no subscription needed.
- Critical bug fixes and known issues.
October 2025
Feature updates
- Access 8 new Adaptive Landscape presets, including Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.
- When you brush over an object using the Detect object tool, Lightroom automatically selects any shadow or reflection with the detection. (Available on Lightroom on desktop and mobile)
- Fine-tune highlight headroom with the new HDR Limit slider.
- Experience a better and faster reflection removal while using the Reflection Removal tool.
- You can now access in-app tutorials in Lightroom to learn about features.
August 2025
Feature updates
The August 2025 release of Lightroom provides support for bug fixes, supported cameras and lenses, stability improvements, and the following feature enhancements:
- Items added to the trash will be permanently deleted after 30 days. Learn how to access and restore deleted photos.
- Generative Remove and People Distraction Removal are now better than ever with enhanced experience and speedy results.
June 2025
Feature updates
- You can now access Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution under the Detail section in the Edit panel. This allows you to make local editing adjustments to your photos directly instead of creating separate files for every enhancement.
- You can now export images in PNG file format.
April 2025
Feature updates
- Experience faster export while exporting a photo with a watermark.
- You can now allow anyone to add photos to an album.
- Lightroom now lets you add additional storage and buy plans directly from the Lightroom on desktop app.
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Lightroom on desktop
- With the new Compare View, you can view and compare two images or your edits' before and after versions. You can also access the dual monitor support to compare your images in Lightroom on the desktop.
- Lightroom on desktop lets you use dual monitor support to make editing more efficient and precise.
Lightroom on desktop
- The Edit in feature lets you seamlessly transfer your photos from Lightroom to another application, edit them, and then quickly bring them back into Lightroom.
- The Denoise feature now supports more file formats, including Apple ProRaw from the iPhone camera. For more details, see Easily enhance image quality in Lightroom.
- Use a screen reader with Lightroom and navigate the application using the keyboard.
- The Merge dialog box now displays photos in HDR when applicable.
- Export in HDR now supports ISO gain maps.
- HDR video is now supported on macOS.
- Enhancements in the Presets panel.
- Display specific metadata as an overlay on thumbnails in the Filmstrip.
- Auto-advance the selection after flagging or rating a photo.
Lightroom on desktop
- The slideshow option is now available in Lightroom to view a group of photos. Select the More menu to view the Start Slideshow option.
- Apple Neural Engine is enabled for AI Denoise on Mac computers with Apple silicon (macOS Sonoma 14.0 or later).
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