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iOS 10 and OS X 10.12 to Feature Improvements to Photos App
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why? If you want to split out folders as their own type, why don't you split everything out? Makes no sense at all.
The only thing I want is a "Save to" button in iOS that allows me to save photos to a certain album. Having to save into the 'All Photos' album and then going into the app and copying to other albums is just clumsy. They need to give me a little bit more control in how I organize my photos.
I want events back. It was much easier and quicker than making albums
Here's my suggestion to improve Apple Photo. Dump it and bring back an updated Aperture.
#1: iCloud Photo Library
#2: Consistency with the iOS Photos app (since iOS is by far the larger platform)
Pretty much everything else follows from that. The existing iPhoto/Aperture library structure (and the apps that manipulate that library) would have needed a major overhaul to be suitable as a server-based library (multiple concurrent logins, updates pushed to all other logins, etc.). Do you make those wholesale changes to two apps, or reconsider why you're supporting two apps in the first place? And if wholesale changes are inevitable, do you start from a fresh code base, patch what you have, re-brand...? To me, it's easy to see why Apple did what they did.
iCloud meant that Apple had to consider whether they'd support the demands of commercial photographers (which is what Aperture's database-related functionality addressed) - huge amounts of storage (at a price they'd be willing to pay), incredibly high demands for speed and reliability, multiple libraries, multiple user logins, collaboration... Overall, iCloud is designed to be a single-user solution. Unless/until Apple introduces a corporate/education-friendly iCloud solution (if it ever does - they may be satisfied with IBM and other 3rd-party suppliers handling that market), I don't see commercial photographers getting what they need. Even then, they're such a small market that their needs may not be addressed. Further, this is even more difficult when it comes to video. Since iCloud Photo Library does handle video... Does Apple ever want to get into the business of addressing the needs of news gathering organizations??
Some of that might be addressed by something many who use Family Sharing have asked for - a joint photo library. It's not an unlikely occurrence, though considering the way some/many users would need to NOT share every photo they take with the rest of the family... a topic fraught with challenges.
Serious amateurs and some pros (I'm sorta-pro - the work I shoot - travel and nature - gets professionally published on a regular basis, but I'm not exactly a photographic enterprise with numerous clients, year-round shooting schedule, etc.) may be able to get along with Photos as long as it keeps advancing - better editing tools (smart brushes will be a huge step forward - the available Extensions to date have "dumb" brushes), more ways to work with metadata, applying the same adjustments to groups of images... I don't see why any of that would be out of the question over the course of time.
Please please pleas please add the ability to use events properly!
I just want a much more dependable iCloud Photo Library. Yes, I have a 15/1 connection, so terrible upload speed, (If TWC rolls out their improved lines where I am by March 5th like they said they plan on doing, I might move to a 100/10 or 200/20 connection) but 15 or so photos shouldn't take hours to arrive on the other device. It would be like 10 seconds or so per photo upload, and then each photo would take a second to pull down on the other device in full size. Not *too* horrendous.
But when I check after I got home from somewhere where I took only like 10 photos, it shouldn't still say "Uploading 10 photos" a couple hours after coming home and connecting to Wi-Fi. I do speedtests, always ~50ms ping or less, always get like 17.5mbps down and 1.5mbps up. It isn't an unreliable/cutting out internet signal, it's the app's inability to continue/complete the upload. It's like it isn't prioritized at all by the device. There will be no signs of internet slowdown due to heavy uploading activity. Nothing. Like it's throttling itself in order to not effect the internet much. I don't want that if I am only uploading a small amount of photos for example.
But when I check after I got home from somewhere where I took only like 10 photos, it shouldn't still say "Uploading 10 photos" a couple hours after coming home and connecting to Wi-Fi. I do speedtests, always ~50ms ping or less, always get like 17.5mbps down and 1.5mbps up. It isn't an unreliable/cutting out internet signal, it's the app's inability to continue/complete the upload. It's like it isn't prioritized at all by the device. There will be no signs of internet slowdown due to heavy uploading activity. Nothing. Like it's throttling itself in order to not effect the internet much. I don't want that if I am only uploading a small amount of photos for example.
I just want a way for the photos taken on my iphone to copy to the photos app and then not create duplicates on my iphone. Everytime I sync, I have to then go delete the original from my iphone. It is frustrating.
Just finally got used to 'Photos' and resigned myself to the changes, after the transition from iPhoto.
Hey Apple you're all idiots, if only you keep Aperture then Photos and iPhotos would be enough for the rest of your customers. Since you killed it and being arrogant that Photos will replace Aperture. Add a third party plugins and full edit support like Pixelmator, Nik Software and more.
1) I don't have unlimited data. The Cloud is out. ANYBODYS cloud.
2) I want to find photos on my phone quickly. I also want to be able to categorize them easily. In albums and folders whose name I choose.
3) Easy batch editing.
4) Easy Exporting of photos to mac.
2) I want to find photos on my phone quickly. I also want to be able to categorize them easily. In albums and folders whose name I choose.
3) Easy batch editing.
4) Easy Exporting of photos to mac.
I usually just find whatever photo/file I was looking for in finder and drag it to the upload window. I don't know if Photos lets you do that but it may be worth a try at least.
- Lock the info panel into the left sidebar again instead of it being a floating free agent.
- Bring back the ability to manually add or edit geotagging.
- Clicking a dated location grouping of photos can bring up a map, but it's not the same or useful functionality as the "Map" overview under "Albums" as before.
- The usability difference between "Photos" and "All Photos" is vague, mostly due to their similar headings -- how about "All Photos" at the top, then "Photos by Date" under Albums.
- Bring back the logical keyboard shortcuts of Command-Arrow(up-down-left-right) or Esc to navigate in/out of photo drilling.
- Name it "iPhotos" -- different from it's predecessors, accurate and MUCH easier to research on.
- "Events" is the obvious and best organisation name/tool ever for photos -- bring it back.
- Make "Faces" optional -- so much wasted time and processor heat on this feature only to have the app ask me "Is this Steve?" when I import photos of a crucifix or Buddha or other works of art -- or literally hundreds of suggested faces found in leaf patterns or stained glass windows or the legitimate faces of people I don't know gathered around the ONE person I do care about. In the VERY least, provide a "Remove All Faces" button so we don't have to delete them individually.
- When emptying the contents of the "Recently Deleted Photos" folder (a really good addition!), please perform the task requested; as it stands now, this action must be taken twice before the folder is emptied. It's impossible to provide a plausible explanation for that during a tech support session beyond saying "Apple is just making double-sure you want to remove them."
- In the Desktop and Screen Savers panel, bring back that one that made thumbnail collages of user photos zoom-melting into one photo... very cool.
- Apple: please rethink the iCal and Calendar apps soon -- I'll gladly provide again a comprehensive list of problem areas with solutions.
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Considering Apple is selling 4 times as many Macs today as when iPhone debuted... I don't think OS X is an afterthought. Other than a list of "Windows features I'd like to see on Mac," what more do you think you'd see from the OS X development team if Apple "cared" about OS X users?
However, the focus, for both Microsoft and Apple, has been how to integrate mobile computing with the desktop OS. That's the #1 factor changing the way people relate to their computers. There would be far less need to issue new desktop OSes if matters like cloud integration and establishing/maintaining consistency with mobile functionality were not on the table. Desktop hardware is not evolving nearly as rapidly as it once was; there's a good case that OS X development would get far less attention if iOS was absent from the discussion.
If you're not using the Apple ecosystem, then many OS X updates/changes may be all but meaningless. But if you are invested in the ecosystem (and a substantial number of those new Macs do go to people who were introduced to Apple by iOS), then OS X is hardly a neglected platform.
Already in El Cap Photos.app.
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Agreed, although I'd prefer it to be on the right sidebar.
I find Photos unintuitive, hard to use and lacking some necessary basic features. It seems like a sketch of an app idea but not like a finished product. I tried it a few times but it just doesn't work for me.
What do you mean by that? When I empty the "Recently Deleted Photos" folder, it's empty. Is there something I'm missing?
How about, when I import 100 folders full of carefully organized pictures from a PC users computer into their new Mac, the photos app doesn't totally Newkay all of their organization? How about it automatically creates albums corresponding to those folders? Is anyone at Apple actually using this product the way that normal users do? It absolutely boggles the mind.
Apple photos + iCloud Photo Library + DxO photo extension is 90% of everything I need: great RAW processing, none destructive, originals backed up in the cloud, edits sync between devices. The rest is nice to have. Frankly, my #1 feature would be Flickr/Google photos style deep search without having to type metadata or faces info. But apple wouldn't do it.
On the 4 (or 5 or 6... can't be sure) Macs I maintain or provide tech support on, I must make the request twice before the photos disappear. We are all running Yosemite. Answering further in my listing, KoolAid-Drink has said geotagging is possible under El Cap; why on earth is a recent (relatively minor) OS upgrade necessary to upgrade the Photos app?!