I’d appreciate any suggestions for efficient non iCloud Lightroom workflows on iPad.You certainly can import files from the SD card, so on my iPhone8 I use the SD card to Lightning adapter and edit them on the phone. I seem to be able to copy one at a time, although at this point I’m not clear where it is being stored. When I select all of them (hundreds) and try to open them, nothing happens. It can show me the thumbnails of the files on the SD card. Lightroom can read from the Apple Files app. I have not succeeded in copying the hundreds of files from today’s shoot onto the iPad. I can’t seem to be able to create a folder on the iPad’s local storage. I can create a folder on iCloud, which I don’t want. I have the SD card connected to the iPad via the Apple SD reader.

I use Photos and iCloud for my iOS photos, but for the reasons above I don’t want to use it for DSLR workflow. I use Lightroom on my Mac at home and want to do the same on my iPad while I’m away from home with my iPad and no Mac. Lightroom - I don’t want to use the Photos app for triaging and editing my DSLR photos. I want the photos immediately accessible with no download lag and accessible when I have no internet, e.g. I don’t want iCloud adding random digits to my photo filenames. Local - I don’t want to burn data copying to iCloud. I have an SD card containing hundreds of photos that I want to triage, sort and edit using Lightroom on my iPad’s local storage. I thought this was supposed to be possible on iOS 13 but either it still isn’t or I’m missing something.

Using lightroom on ipad