Why is Photos so bad

[McScooby]

On a scale of 1-10 why does photos suck so bad? I'm trying to view my deleted album & it won't zoom a deleted pic, wtf?

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

0

 

[ladolcina]

-1

 

[ladolcina]

But seriously, I have no clue why they’d change it, I don’t remember a single person complaining about the old layout. It’s just so awkward now and has a lot of glitches.

 

[TechRunner]

I keep hoping they'll make Pixelmator the new Photos in an upcoming OS version.

 

[adrianlondon]

You can't do much with deleted files in MacOS either, until you "put them back" (i.e. recover them from the trash bin).

The Photos app has been improved in iOS 26 (compared to iOS 18 anyway) in my opinion, but you still can't do much with deleted photos apart from recover them or permanently delete them.

 

[Liquid.26]

-1

Photos.app on iOS is also trash. Apple's been quite consistent these past few years on making the essential apps worse and worse. iPhoto days were much easier and intuitive.

 

[Slartibart]

You can't do much with deleted files in MacOS either, until you "put them back" (i.e. recover them from the trash bin).

The Photos app has been improved in iOS 26 (compared to iOS 18 anyway) in my opinion, but you still can't do much with deleted photos apart from recover them or permanently delete them.

What else should I do with a photo or file i decided to delete? 😃

 

[adrianlondon]

What else should I do with a photo or file i decided to delete? 😃

Well, the OP wants to zoom in - presumably just to look at the finer details of photos they don't like

Or more likely, to check from a bunch of very similar photos if they've deleted the right one.

 

[grad]

iPhoto was good and useful for me. I never used Photos when Apple regressed to it. It felt limited, ugly, new, and obsolete right away, as if it was designed by Millennials targeting Gen-Zers.

 

[McScooby]

Well, the OP wants to zoom in - presumably just to look at the finer details of photos they don't like

Or more likely, to check from a bunch of very similar photos if they've deleted the right one.

100% this.

 

[frou]

I quite like Photos on Mac overall, but my pet peeve is that you cannot view 2 full-size photos simultaneously.

There should be a right-click menu item like "Open in new window" ... This is a Mac for god's sake, you know, one application can have multiple windows simultaneously.

 

[casperghst42]

Apple (read: past) always had a great OS - not perfect, not bug free, nor always easy to battle - but it works and it was mostly stable. They have had a few great application over the years, like Aperture and still Final Cut and Logic Pro - but in general their end user applications receive a lot less love from the mother ship than their hardware (Computers and Devices) and it shows.

I do use iWorks (as it was called), but that is only because the applications are simpler than MS Office, and more user friendly than Libre - but they are simpler.

I do not dislike Apple, but they no longer make exciting products ... just an "update" which is released year after year, without much improvement.