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  1. J

    Photo Albums in IOS18: Yuch!!!!!

    Why oh why did they change this. Stinks like yesterday's diapers.
  2. Thor774

    Photos: Is it possible to view a list of albums a picture has been saved in?

    Hello Basically what the title says. I am looking at a picture in Library > All Photos and trying to find a way to know which albums it has been saved in. Is this possible without looking through each album individually? This would be very cumbersome. I am using Apple Photos in macOS Sonoma...
  3. O

    All iPads Using iPad to display/edit photos - worth waiting and paying for OLED?

    I have a 2017 10" iPad Pro that's dying, have been waiting for new iPads to replace it. I do most of my work on my M1 MacBook Pro attached to a Studio Display. I use my iPad mostly for ebook reading and web browsing. I'd gotten the Pro back in 2017 hoping it could be my main machine but...
  4. RazorBackXX

    Photo Library Has Two Different File Sizes?

    hey my friends, so im having an issue. my photo library on my MacBook matches the one in the cloud I have photos download on. its taking up so much space on my Mac. but the weird thing is inside the photo library its a lot smaller. I pressed Cmd A & its a lot smaller then the photo library its...
  5. TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️

    Photo of the Day - September 2023

    Welcome to Photo of the Day 🍃 September 2023 (Fall Season) 🍂 First and foremost. Thank you for being here. Welcome! 🙏 I hope this thread finds you well and healthy. Say hello to warm days filled with sunshine and cool nights when open windows bring in fresh air for restful sleeping. New energy...
  6. G

    iPad iPad batteries die after months of no use, but I need to leave iPads ready to use at a moments notice. Plugged in 24/7 Photo album strategy

    Hi Everyone, I have my iPads set up as separate photo albums by year. ( see pictures). I like to keep them plugged in all the time so people can come browse, but mostly they sit on the shelf unused, sometimes for months at a time. After a couple of years, the batteries are dead or go from...
  7. G

    How to see if and where hidden photos exist in iOS albums

    Hello! I did not find anything that could help with the search. My iOS version is 15.6 on an iPhone XS. Is there a way to see, where all photos, especially hidden photos, are? I want to be able to see all photos, all photos in a specific album, and the correct count even if there are hidden...
  8. S

    How to alphabetically arrange a ton of album photos in iphone?

    Hi everyone, I've been wondering, trying to figure out, read posts and watch videos if there is a way to alphabetically arrange your photo albums in your iphone? Im constantly adding photos to my past albums because I use them for my projects at work which spans for a couple years. The old...
  9. blackxacto

    Photo App still broken in macOS 11.5? Destroyed two albums.

    Still cannot drag images within albums beyond the computer screen. The update destroyed two albums of 100's images each. So I must remake the albums from the library, 100's of images. And with 100's of images there will be no dragging and positioning order, as Apple broke dragging positions in...
  10. Shan84

    Photo editing

    I want to earn
  11. Z

    Universal Timeflower: Photo Organizing Made Easy

    I have been making this app for more than two years. Features including: - Support photos on the iCloud photo library. - "On This Day" photos. - Quickly add a photo or multiple selected photos to multiple albums. - Pinned photo albums/media types. - iOS 14 widget for showing a specific photo or...
  12. tiimmbe

    Enable iCloud photo's - impact to storage & original photos

    Hi all I have iCloud Photos sync enabled on my iPhone & iPad. Total storage is taking 53GB out of my 200GB plan. I have a lot of pictures (close to 500GB) on my old Macbook which are stored locally in the Photos Library. My Macbook is not synced to iCloud Photos. What will happen if I...
  13. A

    Photo albums not syncing over devices

    Good morning, I have an iMac, an iphone and an ipad. All systems are up-to-date and all are connected to the same icloud with the same apple id. yesterday i imported a lot of photos to my ipad and created several new albums. (I want to mogtte from Adobe Lightroom to Cloud) the photos got...
  14. divinedotcomedy

    AppleTV 4K Screensaver limit for iCloud Library?

    Hoping someone can help! I have a shared iCloud library with around 2,000 photos in it. I’ve set my AppleTV screen saver to use photos from this library when plays music or goes to sleep but it only seems to show a limited number of these photos and a lot of repeats. I am sure when I looked into...
  15. Mihael

    How to remove all recently added photos in Photos app?

    Hello. I recently did upload some photo and videos from SD card into the Photos app on the Macbook Pro. I did a mistake uploading it to the Photos app so the new photos are all over my iCloud library; on the iPad & iPhone. Is there an option to remove all recently added photos and videos from...
  16. GFLPraxis

    All Devices iOS's Photos' "People" Facial Recognition UI is absolutely terrible and frustrating.

    The good: iOS's facial recognition is IMHO "pretty good". And with all ML models, it gets better as you identify more people, too. The bad: When it makes a mistake, the UI makes it a massive pain to correct. In my case, there's a large volume of mistakes, and it's just absolutely impossible...
  17. Populus

    How could I copy all my iPhone photos to macOS Catalina?

    Hello, I didn’t know if this post should be in the iOS sub-forum or in the macOS Catalina subforum. It involves copying all of my iPhone (iOS 12) photos into the Mac with macOS Catalina. I don’t want to do any synchronization or iCloud backup. I just want to import the raw photos on my iPhone on...
  18. LillaK

    Resolved All photos duplicated

    Hi all, A few hours ago, I had about 6000 items (photos+videos) in the IPhone library. (I tried to delete 3 photos, which was unsuccessful, because it’s a common glitch I find when my storage is low.) I opened it again in 30 mins, and saw that every single item had been duplicated + plus some...
  19. T

    Thumbnails in my Photo Albums do not show up even after i rebuilt the library. what am i doing wrong

    I have had some problems recently with the Albums in my Photos Library not showing up....I have tried everything that I can think of. I have tried rebuilding my Photos Library several times, it would recreate the thumbnails (I believe it did it correctly) but the Albums that I have created show...
  20. N

    How do I batch-rename multiple files like this: "D2018.1, D2018.2, D2018.3..."?

    I’ve got 10 thousand pictures to rename. They are titled like this now: "46gibberish, 47gibberish, 48gibberish...". How do I batch-rename the files into something like this: "D2018.1, D2018.2, D2018.3..."? Am I right that this way they will still open in chronological order? Also, it would...