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Apple Photos Finally Gets a Slideshow Maker

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Apple today announced new slideshow features coming to the Photos app, allowing users to play any set of photos and videos as a slideshow.

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There are options to set the slide duration, transition style, and music. iOS 27 also lets users save any slideshow directly as a video to their Photos library for easy playback later.

Additional new features include the ability to save individual video frames as photos, more flexible album organization tools, emoji reactions in Shared Albums, a view of recent Shared Album activity, and access to full-resolution photos and videos in Shared Albums. Apple also introduces new collections in Photos, including Captured by Me and Identity Documents, alongside improved search results for people and pets.

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trusso said:
iPhoto had this over 20 years ago. So did Aperture. The fact that this is “new” to Photos is ludicrous.
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Exactly. Many Tim Cook supporters will find any excuse to praise him for his so-called “innovation.”

allenvanhellen said:
Exactly! My iPhone 4S does this on iOS 5. And it also waits to start it and other video content until the screen is cleared of UI elements. Modern iOS likes to leave buttons and sliders all over your photos and videos.
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Good points. Since Tim Cook is not a product person, UI has really suffered under his so-called “leadership.” Cook is too incompetent to realize the value of Apple’s decades-long painstaking research that went into making Apple’s human interface guidelines. Proof of that is him firing Scott Forstall and then allowing Apple-pioneered skeuomorphism to be replaced with Microsoft-pioneered flat design, which is what we’re still stuck with today.
 
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Uhhh… you can already do this on iOS 26. Can’t confirm for previous versions but pretty sure it’s been there a while.
 
Tim's forte was bean counter and he did that job very well. He lacked the imagination that had propelled Apple for the years before Tim. John inherits very staid mature products that will not change much more over their lifetime. Apple needs a new brain trust to create innovative products to bring excitement to the product line and to the dreary store fronts.
 
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BotchQue said:
If there would be a way to export those slideshows to an Apple TV, for use as screensavers, that'd be hellacool! 😀
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You can already do this by adding photos to a Shared Album, then choosing that album as your AppleTV screensaver. You can even customize the duration and transition within the AppleTV settings. And since it's not a hardcoded video slideshow, you can always add and remove photos at any time.
 
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Is it just me or does it kind of feel like Apple just listened to Accidental Tech Podcast and just did as much as they could of everything they said?

Which, to be clear, is as good approach as any they could have taken in a single year.
 
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ThomasJL said:
Exactly. Many Tim Cook supporters will find any excuse to praise him for his so-called “innovation.”


Good points. Since Tim Cook is not a product person, UI has really suffered under his so-called “leadership.” Cook is too incompetent to realize the value of Apple’s decades-long painstaking research that went into making Apple’s human interface guidelines. Proof of that is him firing Scott Forstall and then allowing Apple-pioneered skeuomorphism to be replaced with Microsoft-pioneered flat design, which is what we’re still stuck with today.
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Isn't "skeuomorphism" kinda coming back with the Vision Pro/Glass effect icons on current iOS?
 
It was the perfect slideshow about four years ago until now they dropped it off. You have no control over your images. They’re using their own slideshow presentation. Let’s hope they get it fixed this time. I just want one image after the other I don’t want no Ken Burns effects I don’t want no three slides together at the same time. I don’t want no music. I wanna do my own. Let’s see how well they’ll do.
 
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Grusa said:
Isn't "skeuomorphism" kinda coming back with the Vision Pro/Glass effect icons on current iOS?
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The current iOS design is what Apple calls "Liquid Glass," but the actual industry name of that type of design is glassmorphism. Glassmorphism is a variant of flat design. Although glassmorphism shares a few similarities with skeuomorphism, glassmorphism is fundamentally a form of flat design, and thus shares many more similarities with full flat design than it does with skeuomorphism.
 
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It’s already very easy to do this by creating an album with the photos you want in a slideshow. There is a slideshow feature built directly into albums if I recall. I guess this might save a step? But usually creating an album of just the photos you want in that slideshow is part of the selection process anyway.
 
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