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No GPS tags on iPhone photos
iPhone 7 plus with latest iOS. To the best of my knowledge, I have never disabled location services for Camera or Compass. I’ve taken many photos and most have GPS tags embedded. But today, I took ...
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Merging Two Photo Libraries on macOS with Different Names and Usernames
I recently discovered that I have two separate photo libraries on my Mac under different user profiles: "jack" and "jack1".
The photo library in the "jack" profile is ...
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How to transfer all non-live photos to a pc?
I have thousands of photos on my phone and want to free up storage by transferring all non-live photos to my PC through a USB. The problem is I can't find an easy way to filter out the live photos ...
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Unknown AirTag near me?
I recently got a message on my iPad that an unknown AirTag is moving with me. By the time I noticed the notification I was unable to play a sound or locate the current location of the AirTag. The map ...
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Long list of spurious albums in iOS photo picker
I've first noticed it with Concur app on iPhone and now see the same behavior with the fashionable BlueSky app, where it's adding a photo much worse. When you tap "add photo" icon, you are ...
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How to find Couples only photos in Apple Photos
How do I search couples photos? I want to find photos that contains exactly the two people, and no one else.
When we do the following, it provides photos that has both the people, and other folks as ...
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I moved my iPhone photos to the PC and now I can only see AAE files
I moved all my iPhone pictures to a PC because I was upgrading to a new IPhone and did no want to transfer all the photos to it.
After the pictures were moved to the PC, I deleted all the pictures ...
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what is the file path to the photos app via terminal
I had a quick question regarding the file path of photos app. I am trying to run a bash/AppleScript script that accesses my photos app via terminal and uses the ls command to print all the file names ...
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Retrieve iPhone lock screen wallpaper photo
Many years and several iPhones ago, I took a nice picture with my iPhone and set it as my lock screen wallpaper. That lock screen wallpaper has been propagated as I've gotten new iPhones, but the ...
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Hard copy photos to image files using Files iphone app?
I have a large collection of old family photos (1000s of them). I need to get these into individual image files for a portrait project.
I have an iphone and a mac, nothing else available to me.
I ...
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Unable to delete pictures on Photos App
I have selected many photos as seen in the screenshot. I have clicked the delete button and all i get is an audible "not today" sound. Nothing happens. Why is this [documented] way of ...
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Removing photos and songs from iPad storage after sync turned off
After turning off iCloud sync for Music and Photos, how do I remove the songs and photos that are already there?
I'm setting up an iPad which has a very small amount of storage.
I had hoped that ...
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Video component missing from Live Photos downloaded from iCloud.com
I'm downloading photos from iCloud.com to a local backup in order to free up storage on my iCloud account.
I would like any live photos to be preserved in a way that allows me to import and restore ...
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What is the easiest way to select all photos from a certain time period in iOS?
I'd like to select all pictures, say from 2022, or Dec 2022, and AirDrop them to my Mac. I know I can filter them by year and month, but selecting all is kind of a pain (even with the dragging-...
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Duplicate photos on iOS when changing aspect ratio
When I change the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 and I take a photo, iOS 16.4 will save two images in the mobile storage, one for 4:3 and another one for 16:9. I could visualize this "normal ...
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Enable photos update in OneDrive for iPhone SE 2020
tl;dr Even though Camera Upload is enabled in OneDrive app in my iPhone SE 2020, it seems to be not working at all. Neither new nor existing photos are never uploaded to OneDrive. I also cannot find ...
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iMac Photos stuck on Updating
Internal HD is toast. So just now newly running this late 2015 iMac from the external SSD it boots from, with OS Monterey.
Most iCloud syncing seems fine, Notes, etc.
But Photos is stuck showing ...
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Is there a way to get back my lost photos on iPhone?
I accidentally restored an old backup on my iPhone and I lost some important photos.
I used EaseUs's data recovery app but it would only find the photos that I now have restored from the old backup, ...
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If I delete 92 GB of photos on my Mac Mini will it be erased from iCloud? [duplicate]
I'm kinda new in Apple ecosystem and I'm currently moving personal stuff from Google to Apple. I have 92 GB of photos and videos that I've downloaded from Google Takeout that I put in Apple Photos ...
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Missing photos when accessing iPhone via Windows Explorer
I always transferred photos from an iPhone to a Windows PC via Windows Explorer, simply by entering the DCIM folder on the phone, navigating to the month folder and copying the files.
Some weeks ago ...
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How to produce, edit, and view HDR photographs format on XDR displays properly?
I am trying to increase the brightness of some SDR photographs so that they can fully utilise the brightness of "XDR" displays on apple devices to display a bright image (For example, ...
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How to find referenced files in Photo library
In an attempt to transfer the photos off my iPhone to the Mac Photos app, I selected the "Import New Items" button and something seemed to process.
No photos got imported and I noticed a ...
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How can I convert a RAW (DNG) photo to a JPG on my iPhone?
I have an iPhone 14 Pro. There are some photos that were taken in RAW (DNG) format. I want those photos to be in JPG format. I have the Photos app's "Transfer to Mac or PC" setting on "...
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Corrupted photo recovery on very old iOS device, no cloud backups
I have an iPad Mini, first generation, model is A1432. It is running 9.3.5 (13G36).
I decided to copy all my media from the device as none of it was backed up to iCloud/Google. I believe that some of ...
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Stop “Sharing Suggestion” spam
This morning my iPhone interrupted me with a random solicitation to use its Photos app:
I am sick of applications abusing notifications to increase “user engagement”, and am saddened to see Apple ...
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How to export photos in directories named with the dates the photos are taken?
How do I export photos imported from my camera in directories named with the date the photos were taken with built-in Apps?
E.g:
2021-09-01
2021-09-06
2021-09-08
I've done this in the past somehow ...
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Where are the phantom/ghost files in iOS Photos?
I'm experiencing the infamous "phantom/ghost" photos issue on my iPhone (XS Max; iOS 16). In short, I have deleted all photos on my phone, including from the Recently Deleted album, but my ...
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Iphone Data Transfer: Same Number of Photos but Different Total Storage
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I am transferring all my data from an iphone X to iphone 14 pro.
I was about to wipe the iphone X , when I did a last second comparison to make sure that the data was correct on both phones ...
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How to store terabytes of photos in iCloud from an external drive?
I have a friend who is an Apple-only user; just iPhones and MacBooks, both new from 2022 or 2023.
They have about 1.5TB of photos stored on an external drive; I told them they should have them backed ...
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Moving photos to another iCloud account and device, with full resolution, edit history, everything
I need to move photos from one iCloud account (my work account, on my work iPhone) to another one (my private account on my private iPhone). I used the work phone for a while to take photos, but now I ...
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How to browse photos from iPhone on an iPad?
Is it possible to stream/cast my photos app running on my iPhone to an iPad to have a larger screen to browse my photos? I don't want to move or copy them to the iPad, I just want to access the iPad's ...
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If I turn off iCloud Photos on my phone, will the photos I take show up on other devices?
If I turn off iCloud Photos on my phone, will the photos I take show up on other devices linked to the same Apple ID?
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How do I force Photos on Mac to upload photos to iCloud Photo Library when syncing stalls out? [duplicate]
Is there any way to force Photos to upload/sync photos?
I often get into a state where Photos is just sitting on a sync and showing, for example, showing "Syncing 140 photos to iCloud" but ...
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No longer able to import HEIC photos from iPhone using the Photos.app on High Sierra
I run High Sierra on my old Mac. Importing pictures from my iPhone running 15.7.2 was never a problem.
Roughly since December 2022, I haven't been able to import photos. The error message is always ...
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How can one adjust the brightness when taking a panorama picture?
I use iPhone 11 mini with iOS 15. I don't see where to adjust the brightness when taking a panorama picture:
How can one adjust the brightness when taking a panorama picture with an iPhone?
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App where I can edit photos in a canvas so I can add a background color and some text
I have an image and I want create another image for the app store, something like the picture below. So I have a screenshot of my application, now I need to add some text on top of it, along with a ...
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Macbook shows executable file instead of folder
I'm looking at photos on a memory stick and the mac has frozen a couple of times - when it unfreezes the file has changed and I can't access the folder again. Please can someone help get the photos ...
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How do I search for vertical (portrait) videos in the iOS Photos app?
Is there something I can type in the search bar to search for “vertical” (portrait orientation) videos in my iCloud Photo Library on iOS 16?
If not, is there another way to do this on macOS or iOS? I ...
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Does iOS app location tracking require permission?
Some apps say they track location in “data linked to you” in their app privacy label.
For example, the game Roblox.
But, these apps (like Roblox) don’t always appear in the Settings -> Privacy &...
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Facebook no longer posts a panoramic photo as a 360 photo
In the past, I have posted panoramic photos on Facebook, and Facebook posted them as 360 photos.
Recently I have been unable to get Facebook to post any panoramic photo as a 360 photo; instead ...
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Problem adding people to the People album [duplicate]
I have an iPhone XR running iOS 16.2. The official Apple advice for how to add a person to the People album is as followsL:
Open a photo of the person you want to add.
Tap the Info button , then tap ...
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Is it possible to show reminders only when I'm on a certain location?
I have some reminders every work day, but it only makes sense in office. Ever since COVID, I'm having more and more time working from home, and these reminders still pop up. Do we have anyway on iOS ...
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Mystery MOV file on iPhone crashes share in iOS
Somehow this white background image file got generated on my iPhone. It shows up in the Photos app like the following screenshot highlights with the info details displayed.
You can see it's a white ...
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Photos.app doesn't show portrait depth adjustment on Mac on shared photo
I'm trying to adjust the portrait depth (f-stop) on Photos.app on my Mac.
For example, here is a photo where this option is available:
Generally, this works great. However, I recently took several ...
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Sync photos inside the Pictures folder
I am new to Mac, so this might be a silly question.
On my Mac Air, I have the iCloud Photo sync turned on. I can see the photos coming from my iPhone.
However, each time I place a picture inside the &...
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How to keep Apple Photos library and file system in sync?
Apple Photos has a setting to disable "Importing: Copy items to the Photos library". However, this does not prevent getting the library async with the file system if you delete a picture ...
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How is HEIC image decoding very fast in iOS?
I used libheic c++ library to decode heic image files, but it is extremely slow. It takes about 1 - 2 seconds to decode an image. Same is the case in windows photo viewer too. But how can I swipe ...
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iOS 16 Lock Screen Photo Shuffle - category Nature not available for photos synchronized from macOS Photos app
iOS 16 offers the option to rotate multiple photos as your Lock Screen wallpaper. When I set this up on my iPhone 11, a couple of months ago, it offered me the option to select a group of photos, ...
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How to WhatsApp full resolution photos from iPhone to Android
On Android, I can choose to attach a "document" and then browse the image or video files and select the one I need. On iPhone, it seems to work the same way except that I don't seem to see ...
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Make Photos recognize several separate photos as a Burst?
I am importing several photos from an external source (ex. a non-iPhone camera, or in my case, variants of a digital painting) and would like Photos.app to treat them as a "burst" photo, ...
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