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iOS resetting an apps location settings to while in app after I manually set it to always
My wife's iPhone has an app installed (Home Assistant Companion app if it matters). I went into the iOS settings, and for the location permission it asks for I set it to "Always", however, ...
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Stop Apple Maps saving recent destinations
Apple Maps saves recent destinations, as shown in attached screenshot. Is there a way to stop Apple Maps saving these recent destinations?
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Saved Apple Maps locations in Guide keep sorting south to north
In saved locations in Guides in Apple Maps, there is a button to sort by Name, Distance or Date Added. If I click 'Distance' the locations are sorted by nearest distance to me.
But if I close the ...
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Itunes to create album instead of From My Mac
I'm new to iPhone but I couldn't find an answer for this.
I had some photo albums in my other android phone and when I move these albums from my computer to my iPhone via Itunes, it automatically ...
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Image text indexing software for High Sierra
I love the Live Text feature on iOS 15 but unfortunately, my photo library is too large to fit on a Cloud account or on an iPhone - it lives on a 4Tb external hard drive.
However, I would love to be ...
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iOS Camera alternatives to make photo segregation/ album filing easier / faster?
Are there any alternative Camera apps that make it easier to push the just taken (or batch of just taken) photos immediately into a specific album?
More details: I use the camera app a lot for mundane ...
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Reset camera roll to photo IMG_0001.jpg -- now it takes forever to get thumbnails when connecting to Mac
I followed the steps at this article (How can I reset the camera roll to photo IMG_0001.jpg on iOS?) and it seemed to work, but now when I connect to my Mac to download photos, it takes SUPER long for ...
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Best way to copy files from iPhone 13 to Windows computer - (cloudbackup available)
When plugging my mobile phone via USB onto my Windows computer I can copy & paste my whole image folder. But for 100 GB worth of pictures and images I collected in the last 5 years this will not ...
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How can I take 1000s of photos with my iPhone, storing them directly on my Mac HDD?
I understand it's possible to capture photos using an iPhone and store them directly on the Mac's HDD using continuity capture. (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT209037)
I have 1000s of collectors ...
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Mac Monterey "Live Text" Not Working for Imported Screenshots in Photos app
Live Text seems to work in Photos for pictures that I've taken with my iPhone camera.
However, I want to use the Live Text on screenshots from meetings. I've imported the screenshot into Photos, with ...
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How to export iCloud Photos without a Mac?
how can I export iCloud Photos without a Mac? Online on iCloud.com I can only export a .jpeg and not the original file including the Live Photo. On a Mac I could export it with the Photos app but I ...
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What does the camera information in Apple Photos on macOS mean?
The camera information in Apple Photos in macOS is different than what it is on iOS, and doesn't seem to correspond to anything.
For example, for an photo where I have
Telephoto Camera — 77 mm f2.8
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Portrait mode on iPhone 11 vs 11 pro with messy hair
So I have messy hair and strands everywhere, and when I take a picture on my iPhone 11 portrait mode it just blurs the strands because of the machine learning algorithm.
Is this the case for an 11 pro?...
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Can't stop Photos from restoring on my MacBook Pro
Googled this but no satisfying answers. I have a MacBook Pro and just updated it to Catalina. My Photos have gone wacky. After several hours of "Updating Library", Photos is now stuck on &...
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How can Apple know date of photo taken in the 80s?
I am curious about the way Apple Photos has sorted one particular photo in my library and would like to ask here if anyone can give me any clues.
I have a photo of myself taken in the early 80s. It's ...
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iTunes Photos sync tab eternally spinning wheel
iTunes 12.9.5.5 on Mac Pro Mojave 10.14.7
There will be a 500 point bounty awarded for any useful answers on this question. I will award retrospectively, as otherwise it will timeout in a week.
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OS X says iPhone is full but iOS settings says it has 120GB free
I am unable to copy files onto my iPhone using OS X because it says the phone is full. As you can see the iPhone Storage page on the device shows 120GB of free space.
I am trying to fill it with ...
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Strange Duplicate importing images from iPhone to Photos
I plugged my iPhone X, running iOS 14.4.2 into my recently updated Big Sur 11.6.
As normal, Photos pops up and, as I occasionally do, I wanted to import the new photos from my phone.
I browsing ...
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How do you reliably share video between iPhone and Mac
Sometimes my videos upload from my iPhone to iCloud and then download to the Mac, sometimes they don't. It's maybe a 50% chance it'll sync within a day. (I don't know if this is normal, I am curious ...
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Date/Time on iPad photos
I took a photo in Fayetteville Arkansas. The EXIF info includes the following:
Date/Time Original: 2017:01:06 06:11:41
Lens Model: iPad Air 2 back camera 3.3mm f/2.4
GPS Time Stamp: 12:11:...
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How could I set up a keyboard shortcut on my Mac that will open the camera on my iPhone, then transfer the captured photo to my Mac clipboard?
I can right click in Finder and choose "Import from iPhone" => "Take Photo". This will open the camera on my iPhone. Then I can take a photo on my phone, and it will be saved to ...
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How to stop iCloud sync deleting photos on my pc?
Bought a new 2nd iPad for the kids - I deleted all photos (as Well as recently deleted photos)… But that was a mistake.
What I forgot to realize is that iCloud now started deleting the photos on all ...
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Photos is re-importing the same picture repeatedly
Why would the same photo be repeatedly imported by Photos? It seems that each time I do an import the photos are reimported instead of recognizing they're already available.
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On iPhone 8 Plus I need To access and upload to Facebook or YouTube, video clips I made Several years ago
Trying to upload some of my old video clips from my camera roll a few years ago, but in YouTube I cant Scroll back far enough.
I read Where I can Touch the video and get a sub menu to share to ...
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Export all images in a burst photo in Photos to separate images on my laptop
I've looked at all the items listed at the end, and still can not find any instructions that match what I see on my laptop in terms of exporting to files on my hard drive.
Question: I have a burst ...
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Photos app will not open, gets stuck at Repairing Library... 5% complete
I have a MacPro 5.1 running macOS Mojave 10.14.6. My Photos library is on a secondary internal drive. It was working a few days ago, but not it will not open. When I try and open it while holding ...
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How to change the playback speed (video speed) in Photos app on macOS?
Is there a way to change the video playback rate for videos viewed in Photos app on macOS?
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How to manage Photos outside of ICloud
The scenario is as follows:
Using and paying for plenty of ICloud storage. Also paying for Office 365, therefore 1TB of storage with Onedrive.
Takes Photos on iPhone and iPad. Receives Photos via ...
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How to remove synced photos from other devices?
I have an iPad and an iPhone. When I had both of them sync to iCloud to save storage space, the photos and albums from my iPad went onto my iPhone and vice versa. This messed up both the organization ...
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How do I fix “This iPhone was not able to download 8 full-resolution photos and videos.” when trying to disable iCloud on my phone
I ran out of iCloud storage a very long time ago but didn't think anything of it since I was using Google Photos. The problem is that for some reason the ‘optimise iPhone storage’ option was checked ...
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Is it possible to create a formatted list or manifest of all photos in my Photos library?
I would like to compare two different instances of the Photos libraries, then export only the files that are different and merge into a single library. I know it is possible to export all from one ...
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Is it possible to sync photos from Apple Photos app with an external hard drive (not simple export)
I use a 2020 iMac 27" with MacOS Big Sur 11.2.
Under the iCloud setting, "Photos" is activated and all my photos are synced between this iMac and all my other Apple devices over my ...
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Downloading Photos to iPad and adding them to iCloud photos
I'm in a bit of pickle I'm home at my parents and they have an old windows laptop (very old basically no way to install any software on it) from which we copied photos on to an USB stick and then ...
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How To Rescue Referenced Photos - Originals are no longer available to me
I have a very large collection of Photos in the Apple Photos App.
Through my own carelessness, I have several thousand photos that are
not stored in the .photoslibrary file and the originals no longer
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Download iPhone pics via shell (terminal)
I've recently upgraded my iPhone from an SE to a SE2, and notice that the "Image Capture" app has trouble importing some of the photos. I've been holding off from using the "Photos"...
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The location service gets disabled after a while on some apps
Some apps that I enabled 'allowing location' checkbox on keep disabled after a while. This include Chromium and Chrome Canary but not Chrome.
After I set 'location service' to on, I always lock the ...
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Photos Library info reports size in "PB"
I was touring the Photos app toolbar recently and noticed the little "info" button (same as menu Window/Info, ⌘ I). I pressed it and a dialog appeared showing me info for my entire Photo ...
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How do I move only images taken by my camera to an album?
I have a lot of pictures taken by my camera, but I also have a lot of images taken by me as a screenshot or saved from some online source.
I'd like to ONLY have pictures taken directly by me via the ...
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Is it possible to backup an iOS 7.1.2 device on OSX 10.12, 10.13, or 10.15?
I have an old iPhone 4 with iOS 7.1.2 that I want to backup and sync the photos off of. I have a macOS 10.12, 10.13 and 10.15 device that I was hoping to backup to (if I have to I can try to dig up ...
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Take a picture on Lightroom for iOS with an Apple Watch 4
I like how Apple wrote an app on the watch that takes pictures with the native camera on iPhone.
In fact, would like to take RAW pictures with any iOS app like Lightroom or another that permits ...
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Amazon Photos iOS app, can it delete photos and videos from the phone after backing them up?
I would like the Amazon Photos app to automatically delete the photos and video it has backed up. Is there a simple way to do this?
Is there any solution for deleting all photos and videos from iOS ...
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Pictures show up in Camera Roll but not in the Photos app
When you go to the Camera app, you can click on a thumbnail of the most recent photo and it takes you to a stream of all photos (I think this is referred to as Camera Roll). These have always been ...
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How is iOS capable of storing two photos with the **exact** same filename in the same folder?
Some backstory: I wanted to transfer some photos from my iPhone X (running iOS 13.6) to my Windows 10 PC (running Version 2004 – the "May 2020 Update") in their original, HEIC format. I ...
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Photos says some photos are in an album, but they aren't
I am trying to make a smart search that includes photos with a specific keyword and that aren't in any folder already.
So I make a smart search:
KEYWORD is SOME_KEYWORD +
ALBUM is not ANY
I get 0 ...
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Find My constantly using location services
On my iPhone in settings under privacy->system services. Find my iPhone always has the grey navigation arrow next to it, It has been like this for over a week. 3 days ago I noticed that find my ...
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Switched my Mac to having photos in iCloud - cannot see them on my iPhone
I have a 200+ GB photo library with Photos on my Macbook. I have synchronized these to my iPhone for many years, and used Photostream to have the photos I take automatically end up in my photo ...
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Random image filename on my iPhone XS
I am wondering why I have randomly named photos on my phone when I copy them to my computer.
Usually the images are all name IMG_0000 etc. and I understand that if there's something like IMG_E0000 ...
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iOS Maps, any way to manually specify a location?
My cottage is along a road that Maps is clueless about - the name is spelled wrong, it’s missing a North, it’s shows all sorts of connecting roads that don’t exist, etc.
The most annoying problem, ...
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Photos app not importing all files
I have over 58,000 photos stored on a HD from the past 15 or so years. I now have a brand new Macbook pro and I have been trying to import all these photos into the Photos app. I have been importing ...
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Photo check to which album/s a photo belongs to
I am trying to create smart albums backwards. I deleted all my albums and created a new folder with a new smart album.
I want the photos to match this criteria
the date capture between a range (is ...
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