Feature summary | Lightroom (August 2019 release)

Easily find photos that you have deleted in the Deleted folder. With just a click, restore them in All Photos and albums that they were previously in. You can also choose to permanently delete them which cannot be accessed or restored later.

To know more, see Access and restore deleted photos.

Import and playback videos

New in Lightroom for Android

You can now import and watch playback of video file formats such as MOV, MP4, and HEVC on Lightroom for Android. Auto Add videos or manually import videos just like photos from your Camera Roll or Gallery. In the Grid view, videos have the () icon in the upper-right corner of the preview thumbnails. Click to open and watch a video.

To know more about importing videos, see Add or import videos.

Batch editing for metadata

New in Lightroom for Android

Select multiple photos in All Photos or in your album, click the () icon in the upper-right corner and select Edit Info. You can then update metadata such as title, caption, copyrights, Star ratings, and Flag filters for all the selected photos at the same time.

What's changed

New in Lightroom desktop and mobile

• The ability to use flag filters and star ratings to hide photos in shared albums has been removed. To learn how to filter photos in albums for sharing, see Flag and star rating filters removed from Shared Albums.
• In Lightroom for iOS, screenshots are excluded by default for import in Auto Add from Camera Roll. You can change this default setting to allow import of screenshots if you want. To do this, click the Settings icon () > Import and select Screenshots.

Support for new cameras and lenses

For a full list of supported cameras and lens profiles for Lightroom desktop and Lightroom for mobile (iOS and Android), see these resources:

• Supported camera models
• Supported lens profiles

Other enhancements

On Lightroom desktop

• In an album, when you click the Sort icon () in the bottom panel and apply any sorting option such as Capture Date or Import Date, it is applied to the selected album only. To know more about sorting options, see Sort photos.
• On Windows, applying Enhanced Details is faster when you use certain NVIDIA cards. For details, see Enhanced Details.
• Create seamless 360-degree panoramas with the edge-aware Adobe Camera Raw update. Previously, when making adjustments to a 360-degree panorama it could result in a seam appearing around the merged edges, especially if you edit Clarity or Dehaze. Starting with this release, you can make seamless adjustments to 360-degree panoramas, even when you edit Clarity or Dehaze. To know how to create a 360-degree or Spherical panorama, see Create panoramas.

On Lightroom for iOS

• Click the  icon to view your recently edited photos in the Recent Edits section.
• In the in-app inspirational photo tutorials, you can download the settings as a preset and apply them to other photos. To know more, see Download as preset.
• In the in-app interactive tutorials, Linear Gradient is now supported. To know more about interactive tutorials, see Get hands-on experience with interactive tutorials.

On Lightroom for Android

• Add likes and comments to photos in already shared albums in the Activity panel. To know more, see Activity panel.
  
• Interactive tutorials and inspirational photos are now available on tablets and Chromebooks along with Android phones.
• In the in-app interactive tutorials, Linear Gradient is now supported. To know more about interactive tutorials, see Get hands-on experience with interactive tutorials.