iPad Pro 64GB Enough for Lightroom Mobile?

[Cashmonee]

I recently got an 11” iPad Pro with 64GB of storage. So far, I am using about 18GB. I use GoodNotes, messaging, web browsing, and Lightroom. I am rarely out of WiFi with it. I am a hobbyist photographer. I use a single 32GB SD card in my camera that I pretty much never come close to filling. My hope is to keep this iPad for a long time. The only reason I got it was because I would have to pay for accidental damage on my 10.5” Pro to replace the battery.

Am I going to be ok with the 64GB capacity or should I bite the bullet and exchange for a 256?

 

[akash.nu]

You’ll be fine. It’s pretty difficult to fill up that much space with just images.

 

[Seanm87]

I have over 1000 pictures on my iPad Air 3 64gb. I’m only using 25 gig. You’ll be fine.

 

[Cashmonee]

After looking into it more and doing a few imports, it seems Lightroom is aggressive about getting the originals into the cloud.

 

[zehcnassurfero]

Maybe it’s fine with 64GB, but depends if you use iCloud or not

 

[Cashmonee]

Maybe it’s fine with 64GB, but depends if you use iCloud or not

Can you elaborate? I use OneDrive for documents and Adobe CC for photos. I do have a 200GB plan for iCloud as well.

 

[Michael Scrip]

Can you elaborate? I use OneDrive for documents and Adobe CC for photos. I do have a 200GB plan for iCloud as well.

I think they're referring to where you store your photos permanently.

It sounds like you've figured it out... edit them on the iPad with LR Mobile then it sends all the originals to the cloud.

You should always have a 2nd place to store photos. Even if you had a 1TB iPad... you wouldn't want that to be the *only* place your photos are.

I'd also keep a copy on an external hard drive... just to be safe...

 

[AutomaticApple]

I recently got an 11” iPad Pro with 64GB of storage. So far, I am using about 18GB. I use GoodNotes, messaging, web browsing, and Lightroom. I am rarely out of WiFi with it. I am a hobbyist photographer. I use a single 32GB SD card in my camera that I pretty much never come close to filling. My hope is to keep this iPad for a long time. The only reason I got it was because I would have to pay for accidental damage on my 10.5” Pro to replace the battery.

Am I going to be ok with the 64GB capacity or should I bite the bullet and exchange for a 256?

A 64GB iPad would work out perfectly.

 

[secretk]

Man I would not make it work. I have 128 GB regular iPad (6th generation) and I already use around 77 GB. I do have photos stored on the iPad but it is also about books. I don't have games actually nor I have a lot of music. For me it really is about the Apple books I download, the stuff I downloaded from Swift Playground and OneDrive stuff.

For some reason when I check the iPad storage it also counts the files I store in my OneDrive accounts (personal and work one). It seems that it caches stuff so just because you use cloud like that does not mean that iPad's storage is not used.

Next time (like say in 2 hours or something like that) when I buy an iPad I will have to go for even bigger storage.

That does not mean that you can't make it work I am just sharing my experience.