Google Phot app has many of these features for a very long time. They initially asked people to sign-up for Google Cloud paid version for Photo App features but later started offering it for free. Google already has mastered the AI and ML (Models) of each and individual user and has already implemented it very well. I think Google also applied some basic level of security where you can’t tag any one in the pictures and name it unless they are someway associated with your group or contact or they have your number in their Android Mobiles.
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iOS 18 Photos App: All the New Features and Design Updates
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My mom’s Garmin app wasn’t “working properly “….before she reset the BT just settings, so I figured she unintentionally changed a setting. So I had to help her fix it. Everything was working, app had just updated and she didn’t like it and stopped using it.
The problem isn’t the relearn - we’d never have better things if that were a blocker. The problem is it’s just bad design.
You could just use a third party app.
Are we not expecting the photo editing to be in-device, and therefore not paywalled?
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Apple frequently redesigns well-established features while overlooking persistent problems that have long plagued its products. Fairly annoying.
It allows me to quickly scan photos I've made in the past to ones I really liked for exporting to Lightroom. Its ease of use is important.
At least partially, but it's still early in the beta cycle.
I have iOS and MacOS versions running right now. To be clear, I'm not using the 15.1 AI beta on MacOS because:
- I can't install it on an external disk with an installer (at least yet)
- Apple has said AI features won't work on data on external disks
Hey Apple, I bought a screen to... see things on it, not be forced into viewing some transparency flex you want to show me. The transparency adds nothing but visual distraction and is a very odd choice which really makes me question the rest of the product. If they made this error here, where else have they missed that I haven't spotted yet?
Also noting there are no visible changes to edit tools, and the file formats it supports are (as always) very small in number. In LrC, I can take a properly exposed RAW and make a stunningly good HDR photo out of it, but getting that into Photos and having it display correctly on my HDR screens is not possible at this point.
Frustrating update so far.
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Uhhh, Ms. Clover, why no mention of Keywords and Smart Albums from the macOS app feature set?
One of the main ties for me to the Apple ecosystem is Photos.app plus hardware I already own. I buy completely new hardware every 3 years (business requirement) and the next cycle is October 2024.
I literally have a Kepner Tregoe decision analysis running and quite frankly it's not looking good for Apple at the moment. Between the overpriced RAM, storage and my increasing compute demands it's starting to make poor financial sense to continue down this road. Windows + WSL2 is looking far more viable.
Note I already have a hefty workstation here which I had to buy because Apple hardware doesn't go that far unless I carve out both my kidneys. And it still doesn't have ECC for that money.
How about the ability to share smart albums like favourites rather than creating a duplicate shared album from a smart album!
but when are they going to allow clockwise rotating of photos and videos and while at it batch rotating?!
Don’t forget we had a star rating system in iPhoto! But they killed it in Photos. I think they created keywords for each rating as a replacement (unless I did that myself - can’t recall), but that’s not quite the same.
I've been using Photos for longer than most people I know (I still remember when iPhotos debuted back in 2002). I heavily rely upon Photos for metadata on pics such as date, location, etc. This helps me tremendously when posting photos via social media especially for throwback posts, etc. I have digital photos going back to the 1990s lol. Anyway, I just hope they don't screw up the metadata like they did with iOS 17. I got into Photos daily and type in 8.12 for August 12th or whatever the date is to see past images taken on that day (or saved that day). I was frustrated when the indexing was broke but was relieved when it was repaired earlier this year (if I recall correctly). I am hopeful Photos in iOS 18 will work well for me overall. I don't participate in the public user trials anymore so hoping for the best in Sept.
Oh, me too
Like I've been saying the past few weeks, it's become a giant usability nightmare
They literally took what worked forever now and made it such a mess
And words can't begin to describe how much I HATE it