![]() Searchįor anything specific that I may want to find, I am constantly amazed at how well Apple’s improved image search functionality works. The ability of iOS to intelligently sort and suggest within your images is just fantastic. It’s not static nor is it manually updated. I love how the For You tab is actively surfacing photos and videos that are relevant, unique, and interesting today. On the right, this week the For You tab is leading with Memories. On the left, it kicks off right away with a sharing suggestion because I had just recently been on a trip. See how they’re different? The one on the left was from September and the one on the right is from yesterday. ![]() Man, I loved that car.Ĭompare these two screenshots of my For You tab. 7 Years Ago: This was a small photo collection of the pictures I took back in November 2011 when I was preparing to sell my 20th Anniversary Edition Volkswagen GTI on Craigslist.I favorited this memory right away as it’s packed with all sorts of photos from mine and Anna’s dates, family gatherings, and family outings. My fancy camera doesn’t have GPS, so I don’t know how the Photos app knows, but somehow it knows that those photos were shot in Castle Rock (perhaps because the photos are time-stamped at the same time as all the other photos).Īnna Over the Years: A collection of photos of my wife. It even includes the photos taken on my fancy camera. So, not only do we have access to the intelligent sorting options and the power of photo search… it’s all happening on the device itself and not in the cloud.Īs I was just now looking through my own For You tab, there were 13 sets of Memories that my iPhone had prepared for me. As Apple outlines at the bottom of their iOS Photos page, “all the face recognition and scene and object detection are done completely on your device.” And iOS puts it together with extreme privacy. If you’ve got an iPhone, then you’ve got a personalized feed of your own photos and photo activity, right there in your pocket at all times. It includes:īut it’s probably not in that order because the order changes and adjusts based on what the app is recommending to you. When you open up the For You tab, you’re presented with your own, personalized feed of photos. Now let’s check out the two most notable features of the Photos app and how I’m using them: For You and Search. Storage is cheap: I have a 2TB family storage plan that covers all the iCloud documents, device backups, and photos for my iOS devices as well as my wife’s. Pretty much anywhere within iOS, if you’re going to work with photos, it’s going to go through the built-in Photos app. Seamless integration with messages and iOS. So, it makes the most sense for me to continue using the Photos app as the central spot for all my photos. One limitation of that, however, is that I have to import the photos from my Leica Q into the iOS Photos app. This past spring I began using my iPad Pro for all my photo editing. I love this!Īll my photo editing happens on iPad. You take a picture and it automatically syncs to all of your other devices and you never have to think about it or maintain it. ![]() Nowadays, iCloud Photo Library just works. They were all inelegant hacks at best, and none of them are still in business today. Back in 20 we were looking into all sorts of different (and expensive) third-party solutions for photo syncing recommendations on The Sweet Setup. Just a few years ago, photo syncing was a big problem. Here are a few reasons:Īll my photos on all my devices. So, that’s why I wanted to share more with you about both why and how I’m using Apple’s Photos app.
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