iOS 16 Includes Copy and Paste Feature for Photo Edits

[MacRumors]

The iOS 16 Photos app adds a new edit feature that's designed to let you copy your edits from one photo and paste them onto another photo, which is useful if you have multiple photos that you want to edit in the same way.

To use the feature, you can apply your edits to an image and then tap on the three dots icon in the upper right corner, which is new in iOS 16. From here, you can tap on Copy Edits to copy everything that was done to the image.

Open up another photo, tap on the same three dot icon, and choose Paste Edits and the second image will get the exact same adjustments. This feature is handy if you have a specific aesthetic that you like to have for all of your images or if you have a batch of iPhone photos taken at the same time that would benefit from similar improvements. Previously, copying edits across photos this way would require a third-party app, but now it can be done right in the default Photos app.

Apple has also made other improvements to the Photos app. There's an option to undo and redo edits so you don't need to discard all of your changes if something doesn't work out, and there is an option to sort the People album alphabetically for the first time. All of these new features, copy and paste included, are available in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura.



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[jouster]

I know there are options for this in many apps—probably better than this implementation. But it makes me unreasonably happy that Apple is finally enabling it.

 

[eyeseeyou]

This and the ability to shoot raw is the most "pro" updates they've made to the photos app... maybe ever. Allow us to save presets would be cool too.

Now if they could just clean up their shared albums(Be like google photos) that would be great.

 

[eyeseeyou]

I know there are options for this in many apps—probably better than this implementation. But it makes me unreasonably happy that Apple is finally enabling it.

Agreed. Apple is getting closer yet still so very very far from getting to lightroom level.

 

[nebulousfish]

THANK GOD

 

[alpi123]

The built-in photo editor sucks big time. Basic shadows/highlight changes shift the whole saturation and brightness of the image, no other app does it that awfully. Lightroom for example will only tackle the shadows or highlights, it doesn't cause any weird HDR effect like what Apple does.

 

[BJMRamage]

I like this a lot. I’ve used Copy Edits back in Aperture and now CaptureOne.

As the above poster suggested I can see having Saved Presets (using your iCloud space -which is really lightweight since they are just basic actions directions) before they hit iOS 20.

 

[Sharky II]

It’s only taken… 13 years

 

[Randel.D]

A feature I didn’t know I needed, but I think I’ll be using a lot! 👍👍

 

[_Spinn_]

Yes! This will be very useful

 

[Christopher Kim]

Yes, I can see this being really helpful when working on personal family photos. We're not "pros" in the sense that we don't do photo / video editing at all, so being able to do things like this in the base photos app (which is all we ever use) helps! As we're one of those who wouldn't generally get another app since we'd use so rarely.

 

[jasonefmonk]

Jesus finally! iPhoto on Mac had this, I’m not sure if it survived the Photos transition though.

It was something I had previously used all the time until I transitioned most of my photo editing to a tablet…

I will be happy to have it back!

 

[Johnny London]

Rating system for photos please 🙏🏼

 

[Musocat]

Ah yes, very important for cat photos! lol

 

[uncle.zed]

YES, fianlly. !!!

 

[ikir]

Very welcome indeed! Thanks!

 

[BJMRamage]

Rating system for photos please 🙏🏼

you can rate them now...you LOVE them (Favorites) or you don't....

I do like ratings though my 5s were Top Level Awesome, 4s were pretty darn good, 3s were decent, 2s will probably become 1s after a while 1s got deleted once I was done a quick scan.

 

[Gobeatty]

Question: Do we know if the copied edits can be pasted to multiple photos at once? I have used this feature in other editing apps for groups of photos taken under the same conditions.

 

[Stiksi]

Now this is the sort of progress I can get behind. Well done!

 

[svish]

Very very useful. Another great addition in iOS 16!

 

[Johnny London]

you can rate them now...you LOVE them (Favorites) or you don't....

I do like ratings though my 5s were Top Level Awesome, 4s were pretty darn good, 3s were decent, 2s will probably become 1s after a while 1s got deleted once I was done a quick scan.

Haha true... I can LOVE them or not which helps with my almost daily habit of scanning and deleting photos. But seriously, a 5 star system is better for more nuanced control, I like to send the ten best photos to someone (5s), while tagging the remaining good ones (2-3s) for a later edit and tagging virtual copies that look great as 4s. If people ask for more photos, I revisit the lowest rated photos (1s) and see if I can crop them or something.

 

[BJMRamage]

Haha true... I can LOVE them or not which helps with my almost daily habit of scanning and deleting photos. But seriously, a 5 star system is better for more nuanced control, I like to send the ten best photos to someone (5s), while tagging the remaining good ones (2-3s) for a later edit and tagging virtual copies that look great as 4s. If people ask for more photos, I revisit the lowest rated photos (1s) and see if I can crop them or something.

yeah back in Aperture days I would rate them and really just post/print the 5s. the 4s could be good in a yearly slideshow. the 3s were some iffy pictures...to me it is much better than a Binary LOVE:HATE in sense.

It was great to go through photos and pick out any decent photos (3). then on a second pass say are any of these BETTER and they get 4s. then the cream of the crop of 4s get a 5-star.

 

[Johnny London]

yeah back in Aperture days I would rate them and really just post/print the 5s. the 4s could be good in a yearly slideshow. the 3s were some iffy pictures...to me it is much better than a Binary LOVE:HATE in sense.

It was great to go through photos and pick out any decent photos (3). then on a second pass say are any of these BETTER and they get 4s. then the cream of the crop of 4s get a 5-star.

Cool, seems like everybody has his own way. Well, happy editing. And I hope to see a rating system in iOS!

 

[Allen_Wentz]

Agreed. Apple is getting closer yet still so very very far from getting to lightroom level.

Apple was to many of us better than LR with Aperture. Then Apple screwed the many of us who had built pro workflows using Aperture by killing Aperture. Now like you said Apple is far from LR. I really, really would like to spend some quality time with the folks involved in killing Aperture and instead providing very lame Photos. They cost me hundreds of hours of time, plus the headache around Photos arbitrarily dropping keywords on most of 40k+ images that were keyworded from within Photos.

 

[eyeseeyou]

Apple was to many of us better than LR with Aperture. Then Apple screwed the many of us who had built pro workflows using Aperture by killing Aperture. Now like you said Apple is far from LR. I really, really would like to spend some quality time with the folks involved in killing Aperture and iinstead providing very lame Photos. They cost me hundreds of hours of time.

Apple really should add "pro" editing and features to the iPhone and photos app side from access to taking and editing raw photos. Give us a manual mode and abilities to save filters.