Everything New in the iOS 16 Photos and Camera Apps

[orbital~debris]

Locking a hidden album is cool, but still not good enough.

Pretty please, could we finally get the option to lock the viewing ONLY to a specific album? Kind of a guest view. Typical scenario - showing some photos to others, your unlocked phone gets passed around the table, but the last thing you want is that someone goes through other albums, mail, messages, … and yes I’m aware if the “accessibility” workaround which locks certain areas of the screen, but that a) takes time to set up, b) blocks view of portrait oriented photos, c) won’t prevent anyone from simply using any shortcut/option to get elsewhere. So in reality it’s not usable.

Or, simply a guest-access feature in general, allowing you to limit the access only to whatever some other person needs. E.g. dial screen for making a call, camera app to take pics, a game when you need to keep a kid occupied but don’t want them to call somewhere, or that particular album to look at photos.

If there’s a way to vote for such a feature somewhere, I’d be happy to.

I love these ideas 🙂

I recommend sending your ideas to Apple using their Feedback page (https://www.apple.com/feedback/).

 

[DailySlow]

I hope only exact duplicates. I wouldn't want an algorithm decide for me which one of the similar images is the one to keep.

Mac app Duplicate Fixer (pro) can go through your iPhoto/iCloud lib. Parameters and filter settings are adjustable.

 

[hagar]

I hope only exact duplicates. I wouldn't want an algorithm decide for me which one of the similar images is the one to keep.

No, but it would be nice if it offers support for it and some interface to choose the ones you like to keep. As it is now, you’re forced to upgrade iCloud storage every couple of years.

 

[willyx]

Features that have been in Google Photos for ages

 

[Captain_Awesome]

They still need a security feature with invisible ink being used in messages. Even though when you send a photo using invisible ink, when you click on the persons contact photo at the top of your message thread to reveal all of the links and images you have sent one another, the image that you’ve used invisible ink on is visible and not hidden. Those images should remain hidden throughout the device.

 

[nutmac]

RAW instead of JPEG scares me. I do not consider RAW and JPEG versions of the same image duplicates.

Hopefully, Apple will provide more detailed information.

From my little experiment, if your camera took RAW+JPEG, both are preserved in the library as they look "different".

But if you used Photos (or its predecessors like iPhotos or Aperture) to create JPEG out of RAW, Apple's duplicate image detect algorithm seems to be detecting JPEG as a duplicate as the resulting JPEG look identical to RAW.

 

[Talving]

Seems like Apple has removed the burst photo function. Now when holding the camera shutter it will start recording a video instead.
A function I miss deeply in some cases.

 

[Jana_CZ]

Seems like Apple has removed the burst photo function. Now when holding the camera shutter it will start recording a video instead.
A function I miss deeply in some cases.

That’s been this way since ios 15 - I don’t like that change either tbh. You can enable burst mode on one of the volume buttons instead (which isn’t a very good alternative - pressing a physical button causes moving the camera/lens 😒)

 

[No_comment]

To be able to switch off Deep Fusion and Smart HDR is a must, I hope that is added. Pictures of people is otherwise impossible to use since the overprocessing makes them unrecognizable.

 

[No_comment]

When the first version of Apple Maps was released Scott had to leave, who is responsible for Deep Fusion and Smart HDR in Camera app?

 

[Artemis70]

That’s been this way since ios 15 - I don’t like that change either tbh. You can enable burst mode on one of the volume buttons instead (which isn’t a very good alternative - pressing a physical button causes moving the camera/lens 😒)

I'm not sure when the function of the shutter button was changed. According to Apple it works different for the iPhone Xs and newer versus the iPhone X and older. Apparently we now need to swipe the shutter button left to start burst mode: Apple support on burst

 

[eyeseeyou]

What about more manual tools on camera?

At this point, with all the emphasis on the camera, they should have an “auto” and “manual mode”.

They’re so close

 

[eyeseeyou]

I'm not seeing a duplicates album

 

[Artemis70]

I'm not seeing a duplicates album

Neither am I. I have been told that I need to wait for my iPhone to analyze the album for duplicates. This may take a while as this only happens while the iPhone is connected to power.

 

[SnowDX]

I still don’t see tagging capability for photos. 😢

 

[eyeseeyou]

I still don’t see tagging capability for photos. 😢

What type of tagging?

 

[SnowDX]

What type of tagging?

Like you can with files. Faster to quickly type in tags than add photos to albums, especially when your photo fits more than one album/category. And then view/edit all tags on an album in the info so you know if you’ve categorized it already. I’ve got a ton of photos with no easy way to see if I’ve added them to one or more albums already.

 

[eyeseeyou]

Like you can with files. Faster to quickly type in tags than add photos to albums, especially when your photo fits more than one album/category. And then view/edit all tags on an album in the info so you know if you’ve categorized it already. I’ve got a ton of photos with no easy way to see if I’ve added them to one or more albums already.

I don't see it either but was that an advertised new functionality?

 

[SnowDX]

I don't see it either but was that an advertised new functionality?

Haha, no it wasn’t. I’ve just been wanting/waiting for it for years and surprised they haven’t added it.

 

[eyeseeyou]

Haha, no it wasn’t. I’ve just been wanting/waiting for it for years and surprised they haven’t added it.

Actually seems like a really useful functionality