Google Photos app (cross-platform) does it quite well & has an unlimited free storage as well, so it would be interesting to see how the two compare.
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Google Photos app (cross-platform) does it quite well & has an unlimited free storage as well, so it would be interesting to see how the two compare.
Except that most people have their iphones set as to automatically send all that data to Apple as "usage and diagnostics data" in iOS settings.
Remember the recent news about Apple saying how successful touch Id is? Saying people unlock their iphones an avg of 80 times per day. That is called data mining.
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/18/average-iphone-unlocked-80-times-per-day/
And this is safe info. To understand it even more, check this:
There is this difference, Apple knows how many photos you have (necessary for making future adjustments, etc.) vs. Google has your actual photos - images.
Apple's supposed to be all about privacy . . . They've figured out that people store their passwords in Notes . . . so they've password protected Notes now.
But haven't they figured out people take or store sensitive photos on their phones???
Why do "hidden" photos still show up in "All Photos", why doesn't the "Hidden" album have an extra barrier of protection, like password or Touch ID entry?
I hate having to be extra cautious about who uses my photos app!
But haven't they figured out people take or store sensitive photos on their phones???
Why do "hidden" photos still show up in "All Photos", why doesn't the "Hidden" album have an extra barrier of protection, like password or Touch ID entry?
I hate having to be extra cautious about who uses my photos app!
That's good. Actually being able to turn off and disable all those annoying folders (like "selfies") and things like the "moments/collections" and "photo stream" would really be a bonus.
I guess it was too much to ask to be able to name & tag photos for search. Geeze. If they had given me that, iOS 10 would be worth it.
That's exactly the type of functionality I favor, a well. My concern is that tech providers will increasingly try to organize our lives. It's rather creepy at some level. It's as if they are saying "No, we know better. We know how you REALLY need to organize your photos."
I use iCloud photos, actually, but according to the presentation, the analysis is all done on device. I don't know how Apple does it, but they discussed this on Twit and one of Andy's contacts who is supposedly in the know, said that this was possible.
The most important thing to me is that Apple doesn't one day build a comprehensive profile of its users using all of this data. Call me paranoid, but we're now at a moment in time when all of this data in the wrong hands could lead to some serious consequences.
It's not FB and Google I'm afraid of... It's the inevitable point in time when someone or some group will get access to and use that data for nefarious purposes.
If this works as well as advertised (and translated to macOS) I like the changes, particularly in being able to search for things. Curious how specific it will be.
I sincerely, sincerely hope that Apple have fixed the horrendous iCloud Photo Library synchronising problems that made me give up on iCloud Photos and switch to Google Photos. I would love to switch back to Photos and keep my content on Apple. When iCloud Photo Library arrived I was all for it. The 1st time it synced my 80GB library it took weeks, which I expected because I have such a slow Internet connection.
But then after a just a few runs of Photos, I saw that Photos was syncing everything again, even though I could view my library on iCloud and could verify everything was there. For more weeks, Photos pointlessly uploaded every single byte of my 80GB library, doing goodness-knows-what with the data, because the files on my library were untouched.
Because it totally consumed my broadband connection I had to make sure it only synced at night time or when the house was empty. I ended up bringing my iMac to a premises with decent broadband, and let it sync away for a day.
A few weeks after that - guess what? Photos began the whole process all over again. So I wiped my hands of Apple Photos, switched to Google Photos which does what Apple software used to do - just work; and I never looked back.
With the recent improvements showcased at WWDC16 I would, of course, love to switch back. But really? Really Apple? I'd love if you fixed the core functions of your applications rather than adding more features to a shaky framework. Once Sierra is out there I'll watch the forums with great interest.
But then after a just a few runs of Photos, I saw that Photos was syncing everything again, even though I could view my library on iCloud and could verify everything was there. For more weeks, Photos pointlessly uploaded every single byte of my 80GB library, doing goodness-knows-what with the data, because the files on my library were untouched.
Because it totally consumed my broadband connection I had to make sure it only synced at night time or when the house was empty. I ended up bringing my iMac to a premises with decent broadband, and let it sync away for a day.
A few weeks after that - guess what? Photos began the whole process all over again. So I wiped my hands of Apple Photos, switched to Google Photos which does what Apple software used to do - just work; and I never looked back.
With the recent improvements showcased at WWDC16 I would, of course, love to switch back. But really? Really Apple? I'd love if you fixed the core functions of your applications rather than adding more features to a shaky framework. Once Sierra is out there I'll watch the forums with great interest.
The Photos app in iOS 10 has been updated with what Apple calls "Siri intelligence," which essentially equates to new deep learning techniques and advanced facial and object recognition algorithms.
Using these tools, Photos is able to scan a user's entire photo library, intelligently detecting people, animals, places, and objects and grouping photos together in a logical way based on those parameters. As can be seen in the video below, this enables powerful searching capabilities, allowing users to search for "cats" to bring up their images of cats, or "mountains" to find all images taken of mountains.
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New to Photos on iOS is a "People" album, housing all of a user's images featuring people, grouped based on facial recognition, and there's a world map that shows the physical location where each of a user's photos were taken.
Perhaps the best new feature in Photos is a "Memories" tab that uses all of the image recognition, date, and location information to aggregate photos based around certain days, vacation trips, family events, and more, so your photos can be revisited on a regular basis. With Memories, there are options to watch quick video montages of photos, which are set to music.
Also new in the iOS 10 Photos app are Live Filters that work with Live Photos and new Markup tools for annotating photos.
The new features in Photos are powered by a device's GPU with all learning done on a device-by-device basis to ensure full privacy. Apple has made it clear that it does not see images or image metadata. When using the new Photos features, each device with a photo library will need to scan images independently -- there is no iCloud link yet.
In case you missed them, make sure to check out our seven minute WWDC 2016 video, which features a quick rundown on all of the new iOS, macOS Sierra, tvOS, and watchOS features Apple introduced this week, and our video highlighting iOS 10's overhauled Lock screen. stay tuned to MacRumors for more in-depth software videos.
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Too true, but sad that an old outdated app is still better than anything that has been released to replace it. Going backwards
Photos on a map is the best feature for my needs.
I have thousands of pictures and sometimes I need to quickly get the pic I shoot at a particular place. I remember the place, I know where the photo is but of course I can't remember the day I shoot it so looking for it on a map is a huge time saver
iOS 10 allows the editing of live photos.
There are some new APIs so developer can provide extensions to edit the content of live photo, and I read something about editing each frame and not the photo as a whole.
I have thousands of pictures and sometimes I need to quickly get the pic I shoot at a particular place. I remember the place, I know where the photo is but of course I can't remember the day I shoot it so looking for it on a map is a huge time saver
hi there, i am not a developer and i am very curious about live photo editing. does anyone know whether editing live photos in ios10 allow cropping? does it allow detailed editing such as saturation, brightness, and so forth? currently in ios9, once i started to crop a live photo, it will just become a normal photo
iOS 10 allows the editing of live photos.
There are some new APIs so developer can provide extensions to edit the content of live photo, and I read something about editing each frame and not the photo as a whole.
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The question I've got is: If you have a large photo library (I have a 80,000 + 900 vids) can you finally turn on cloud library without it completely killing your phone? As at the moment I can't turn it on as it just keeps filling my phone storage which make the phone useless, I have to wipe the phone and start a fresh.