If Adobe tried to make Lightroom Classic for iPad OS today, under the limitations of iPad OS and the constraints of a touch UX, it would probably look and work at lot like the existing ground-up rewrite of Lightroom for iPad that they already did.

But that seems very unlikely for now, largely because of the ways that iPad OS does not support everything that macOS does. Adobe, today, released an update for its line of Lightroom apps, bringing native support for Apples M1-powered computers and Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered Windows Arm devices, as well as support for Apples new ProRAW image format and more. What’s left, is to wonder how likely it is that Adobe would completely rewrite Lightroom Classic for iPad OS. Easily organize all your photos on your desktop and share them in a variety. Punch up colors, make dull-looking shots vibrant, remove distracting objects, and straighten skewed shots. Lightroom Classic gives you all the desktop editing tools you need to bring out the best in your photos. So we cannot expect, any time soon, to be able to run the Apple Silicon Mac version of Lightroom Classic on iPad OS without modification. Meet the photo editing app that’s optimized for desktop. All of the hopeful speculation for Mac software on M1 iPad Pro never came true. Lightroom Classic is now optimized for M1 Apple Silicon, but…in the many months since the M1 iPad Pro was released, Apple WWDC came and went, the release of iOS 15 came and went, and still, Apple has done nothing and announced nothing to make it possible to run Mac software on an M1 iPad Pro.

Performance boost When compared to Intel systems, M1 Macs are about twice as fast when using Lightroom Classic, including launch, import, export and walking through photos in loupe view. Yes, and it is interesting to revisit this post months later. This morning, Adobe announced the latest version of Lightroom Classic, bringing native support for Apple M1 Macs as well as a handful of other updates.

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