Photos is where all the amazing photos you take with your iPhone and iPad live. And now it’s even smarter and more personal, with intelligent features that help you find, edit and share your best shots.
The Library tab helps you find and relive your favourite photos and videos. Years highlights the best of your past photos. Months presents your photos by significant events. Days surfaces your best shots. And All Photos displays your photos and videos in a beautiful interactive grid.
Using on‑device machine learning, the Library tab hides similar photos and reduces clutter by removing screenshots and receipts, so you can easily enjoy your best shots. Photos also uses intelligence to find and focus on only the best part of your photo for better previews.
The For You tab contains your memories, with a new interactive, immersive interface, along with new Memory mixes that let you personalise the look and feel of your story with a song and vibe to match. And if you’re an Apple Music subscriber, you can get curated, personalised song suggestions just for you.
Now family memories are in one place for everyone to enjoy. With iCloud Shared Photo Library, you can share photos and videos seamlessly with up to five other people, so everyone can collaborate on the family’s collection and enjoy more complete memories. Smart ways to share make it easy to share just the photos you want. And edits and changes sync everywhere, so if one person organises the collection, everyone benefits.
The most relevant photos shared with you in Messages automatically appear in your library. Save photos with just a tap, right there in the conversation. You can also get suggestions for photos to share based on who you’re chatting with, what you’re talking about and where you’ve taken photos together.
When you share a photo or document, you see options based on who’s in the photo and how you usually share. So you can share with just a tap.
Intelligent face recognition and location identification make it easy to find the exact photos you’re looking for, based on who you were with or where you were when you took them. You can even search for people at a specific place, like “Jenna Golden Gate Bridge”, or for events, like “Lady Gaga”.
Photos surfaces important events, people, places and dates even before you begin typing in the search bar. It also identifies photos of things you’ve done in the past that may be relevant and important to you now. For instance, if you just went to a tennis match, it may suggest revisiting old photos from a sporting event you attended years ago.
Using advanced machine learning, scene and object recognition lets you search your photos for things like motorcycles, trees, apples or even text1 that appears in the photo. You can also combine multiple search terms — like “beach” and “selfies” — without having to tap each word in search.
A streamlined editing experience lets you fine‑tune your photos with powerful, easy‑to‑use tools and fine‑grained control. You can even control the intensity of Auto Enhance, so when you turn the dial up or down you’ll see other adjustments — including exposure, contrast and brightness — intelligently change with it. And if you love an edit you’ve made, you can apply it to another photo, or even a whole batch.1
Nearly every tool and effect available for photos can be used on videos, including Rotate, Crop and Auto Enhance. And you can even adjust focus points and depth of field in Cinematic mode videos.2
You can import and edit RAW images from standalone cameras — and edit Apple ProRAW images taken on iPhone3 — on iPhone or iPad models with an A9 chip or later.
With iCloud Photos, you have the freedom to access every photo and video in your library — from any device, any time you want.4 So you can view a photo from last week or last year no matter where you are. iCloud Photos keeps every photo and video you take all in one place, and you can access them from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac, on iCloud.com and even with your PC. And with iCloud Shared Photo Library, you can seamlessly share photos with your family.
One of the best things about Photos is how it protects your privacy. iOS and iPadOS are designed to take advantage of the powerful processor built into every iPhone and iPad. So when you search your photos, for instance, all the face recognition and scene and object detection are done completely on your device. And your Hidden album photos stay hidden, locked behind your device’s authentication.1 Which means your photos are yours and yours alone.
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User Guide
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