You are lucky, as that scenario assumes that you can even get airdrop to work reliably between a Mac and an iOS device.
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iOS 10 and OS X 10.12 to Feature Improvements to Photos App
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That doesn't work on certain sites. It would be cool if you could access your photo library in the finder.
Yeah, protecting my bank app with Touch ID is worthless since I lock my phone.
I've filed a couple radars requesting that, at minimum, there is an option which allows the user to require Touch ID to open the Hidden album.
I doubt this will ever happen. I think Apple's intent of the hidden feature in Photos is not meant to be about privacy, but more about managing your photos. You may have some photos you don't want to delete, but don't really find important enough to see in your main library. There might be photos that are not particularly good photos but you want to keep them for reference or sentimental reasons or whatever.
I have submitted this to their feedback website. It would pretty sweet, wouldn't it?
Amen to this. I loved scrolling around a map to see where I've been, drilling in on certain spots. This was, in many ways, a faster way to find an individual picture than by drilling down to the right album.
Yes, you know, once you posted this idea I can't get rid of it from my head.
We could set up/establish some older Mac, Mac mini, older Mac Pro (sometimes you can get it cheap on auctions), and adjust it to our needs, space, caching settings (that it would generate some thumbnails) for faster viewing.
This would be huge, we wouldn't have to pay for iCloud storage and still have it well integrated with iOS.
OS X Server already has Mail, Calendar, Contracts, Shared Files, Reminders, among many other features. The only thing missing from a full self-served iCloud suite would be Drive, Notes, and Photos.
OS X Server used to cost hundreds of dollars. Today it's like $20. I would pay $100 or even $200 if it included a full icloud suite, for the ability to control access and take responsibility for my own security and storage.
Why even release the Photos app in the first place if it wasn't at least on par with the app it was replacing?
Exactly, 20 dollar it's quite viable option.
And like you said, some fully feature iCloud management would be nice. Like a real Me.com service.
Please oh please let us have multiple iphoto libraries from different icloud accounts.
At least enable multiple libraries within the same family plan.
Also, give us the option to sort/filter using multiple tags (icloud account, date, location, etc.)
At least enable multiple libraries within the same family plan.
Also, give us the option to sort/filter using multiple tags (icloud account, date, location, etc.)
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Eh? I don't use the iPhotos app or whatever the heck it's called. I just delete it as it's worthless.
No freakin' way will Apple give us this. They want iCloud to suck in more dollars and sheep than a tornado at an Austin 4H Club fair. Imagine providing unlimited hosting of your family and friends on an extendable and little-used MacMini for a mere $20 OS X Server purchase instead of $XX.XX per person/year for iCloud ....... now keep dreaming, because Apple has already been through that nightmare scenerio for themselves and locked that idea far far away.
iPhoto Events have been replaced with Moments (though iPhoto Events created in iPhoto have been turned into albums).
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Events have been replaced by Moments. And remember, everything that Photos on the Mac does has to work on an iPhone as well. If Photos on the Mac were to get Events back, the Events would have to sync back to the phone.
Right. But can I rename a Moment, or am I just stuck with Apple's Location and Date designation for it? And can I combine moments, or divide them? Will be thrilled to learn if yes. That's what I miss about Events. It made images much easier to organize and to find via a search. And I do know how to find my old Events -- I should have been clearer -- I just find them less convenient to get to now than I used to. Thanks.
I love events, and thus i use iPhoto still. I've got literally 10 years of photos organised into events, and while you can view them in photos, its by a crappy side menu and you can't create new events.
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Moments are not the same thing as events. They're a half version. Not good enough when you have 10 years worth of organised events.
On another note, I'm still annoyed that Apple decided to make iPhoto not work with iOS 8. I purchased the iPhoto App and apple purposefully stopped it working, and didn't replace the functionality in photos. Very very poor move.
Don't we all see the past through rose-tinted glasses?
OS X 10.0 -> 6 months
OS X 10.1 -> 11 months
OS X 10.2 -> 14 months
OS X 10.3 -> 18 months
OS X 10.4 -> 30 months (transition to Intel)
OS X 10.5 -> 22 months
OS X 10.6 -> 23 months
So when was that fabled period with 2-4 year intervals?
And I think this is exactly the problem. My sense is that the design philosophy now is not, how do we build the best app? The philosophy is, how do we build an app that will work more or less the same way in OS X as in iOS? And everything's a tradeoff, and I am sure there are people who are pleased that cross-platform harmony is the priority, but I think that in this case the OS X experience has suffered badly on behalf of iOS compatibility.
There is Siri ..
OF course there is one, and only one way out of all this.. Users won't like it, but make everyone backup and start over... Take out the whole migration thing, cos is just causes issues anyway..
First problem, if u are going to have something make sure it works. 99% of the time, since users will depend in it, and it will cause headaches for those it doesn't work for...
so, why have it .. get rid of it and just say "backup"
..OF course there is one, and only one way out of all this.. Users won't like it, but make everyone backup and start over... Take out the whole migration thing, cos is just causes issues anyway..
First problem, if u are going to have something make sure it works. 99% of the time, since users will depend in it, and it will cause headaches for those it doesn't work for...
so, why have it .. get rid of it and just say "backup"
Moments are the same thing as Events (every photo was in one and only one Event, now they are in one and only one Moment). You just cannot create the 'Events' anymore yourself, you cannot decide which images they contain and what they are called and you cannot their order or put them into folders. Moments have the same function as Events (they are the primary organisational structure for your images), you just don't have control over them anymore.
Events in iPhoto are what Projects in Aperture are, what Finder folders are for all types of files, what 'imported' Finder folders in Lightroom are. They are the location where your images are, same applies for Moments. You have just been 'relieved of the burden' to create them and to name them (no more dozens of 'Untitled 1', 'Untitled 2', etc.).