The crucial lines are deep down: "I didn’t even want to use the Photos app to manage the photos, but you don’t have a choice. All externally-stored photos must

The crucial lines are deep down: "I didn’t even want to use the Photos app to manage the photos, but you don’t have a choice. All externally-stored photos must be imported to the Photos app first." "I tapped to select and import the 2,500+ 42-megapixel RAW photos on that SD card. I quickly learned that you cannot do anything while importing photos. If you background the Photos app, the import pauses. Long story short, it was so extremely slow that I gave up after an hour or two. It wasn’t worth it for me." "For fun I decided to open some of the shots in the Lightroom CC app. I expected that the photos would just be there, ready to edit as they were already on the device. Unfortunately, there’s yet another step—I had to import the photos to the Lightroom app. And this is not a simple "add" type of import that just keeps the references to the files. I think it actually copies the files over again." He thought he'll do the photo editing, but the result is: "I still use Lightroom Classic CC on the desktop for all the heavy lifting and laborious editing, but also to import the photos and create my collections." The tied hands in working with photos is my biggest problem with all i-Devices. Apple doesn't want to let you manage your own photos: the photos you shoot with the iPhone, once copied out of it and deleted on it, can't be even copied back to have the same status like those never deleted. Unless you use their iCloud, buying the storage. So much for "Pro."