Adobe releases Lightroom Classic 15.6, Desktop 9.6 and Mobile 11.6, enhancing reflection removal, AI-assisted editing, and camera compatibility for more seamless workflow and improved image quality.
Adobe has released Lightroom Classic 15.6, Lightroom Desktop 9.6 and Lightroom Mobile 11.6, with the latest build focused mainly on stability, wider camera and lens compatibility, and a handful of workflow refinements. According to Adobe’s release notes and community announcements, the most visible changes are improved Reflection Removal and broader support for recently launched cameras and optics, while Lightroom Classic also gets a small but useful masking-panel shortcut for quicker selection control.
The Reflection Removal tool has been refined in both Classic and Desktop, with Adobe saying it should handle more difficult surfaces more effectively, including windows, glass and water. That matters because reflection removal is one of the more technically demanding computational editing features in Lightroom, where small gains in accuracy can make a clear difference to the finished image. Adobe has also added “Check All” and “Check None” controls in the Masking panel in Lightroom Classic, which should reduce the number of clicks needed when working through multiple masking options.
Lightroom Desktop also picks up an early-access feature called Prompt to Edit, which brings AI-assisted editing more directly into the application. Rather than adjusting sliders automatically from a text description, as some users might expect, the tool works more like an integrated Firefly-style generation workflow that adds the result to the Lightroom library. Adobe says it supports 2K and 4K output, at a cost of 20 or 30 Generative Credits respectively, and is most useful for tasks that are awkward to achieve with conventional Lightroom tools, such as restoring or colourising old scans.
The updates also expand camera and lens support across the ecosystem. Adobe’s release notes list support for Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max camera modules, Google’s Pixel 11 range, and Olympus OM Digital Solutions PEN models, while new lens profiles include optics from Laowa, Leica, Sigma and Sony. Adobe says the new lens profiles include distortion correction, and the Classic release also updates tethering support, although no new cameras have been added for tethered shooting in this version.
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