Questions tagged [photos]
Photographs and photography in general. For the application, use "photos.app".
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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 'reconnect' photos transferred from iPhone so that favourites are discoverable in Photos?
I want to transfer the 'favourite' status of photos on my iphone to my Photos.app library...
Background: syncing photos from iphone to Mac via USB loses favourite tags
I have previously synced photos ...
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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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Can i get the Save Origin of a photo or Video in Shortcuts?
Since i can see via the photos app where photos are saved from, for example a meme from 9GAG i figured that i would somehow be able to get that via shortcut and then auto sort theese into theyre ...
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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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Windows Explorer is not showing all of the photos on my iPhone
I am trying to transfer all the photos/videos on my iPhone 14 Pro (running iOS 16.2) to my Windows 10 PC.
Here is what my iPhone 14 Pro tells me:
the "Recents" album has 2883 items
under ...
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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?
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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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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Keep location on photos in iPhone, except when sharing
I like having location data on the photos I take with my iPhone, for my private use and categorization. But I don’t want to include this information by default when sending photos to others.
So far I’...
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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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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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How do I filter out photos and videos that were originally taken on this iPhone?
I have activated iCloud on an old iPhone 6 (with iOS 12.5.1) and thousands of the iCloud photos are downloaded on this phone.
But I want to filter out the photos that were taken on this iPhone 6.
What ...
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Apple Photos library shows imported photos, but local library size and iCloud Photos are not changing
I'm migrating my photo library from Google Photos, and have a weird problem when importing decompressed Google Takeout downloads into my Apple Photos library.
The Photos library was 26 GB when I ...
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Turning off iCloud Photos on my iPhone required me to delete local files. The 700 deleted photos were not stored in my iCloud library nor on my phone
Disabling iCloud photos on my iPhone 12 resulted in me losing ~700 photos. They were not recoverable, locally or on the cloud because they were not stored anywhere. Recently deleted folders have ...
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Keeping a Music or Photos library on a non-APFS remote-mount
Since both my Music and Photos libraries are very large, I've been considering putting them on another Mac or Linux fileserver and remote mounting them. But neither of those machines can do APFS.
I ...
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How to LOCATE photos, on iPhone, which aren't importing to my Mac?
There are a few old-ish photos (2019 or so) from the previous (family) user of my iPhone which just refuse to import into Photos on my Mac. That's fine; my 17-year-old sister has thousands of photos ...
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iPhone photos widget is grey
That's pretty much it: my photos widget is just a grey tile, no matter which size I get. I've already rebooted the device and it still doesn't work. How to fix this?
It's an iPhone 12 device with iOS ...
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iPhone photo messages
So I was sending someone a picture message if you click the camera icon in the message once the photo is taken you can press retake or the close which saves the photo and doesn’t send, so what ...
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Why need first save to Files then to Photos?
I have this image: http://t44-post-cover.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/bixw.mp4
When it is loaded to browser on an iPhone, I can not download directly to Photos, it is not among sharing options, but ...
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How to stop iOS downsampling images when sharing via email?
Whenever I share a screenshot via email or other means, the photo is always downsampled to a very low resolution automatically. I can't figure out how to disable this - I want to share screenshots as ...
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Is there any way to filter out the images taken by this very device rather than synced from icloud?
I have an old iPhone 7 Plus (iOS 15.7), but after turning on iCloud, thousands of photos were syncing in (and saved locally on this iPhone 7 Plus).
Is there any way to filter out the photos taken by ...
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macOS crashing when changing iCloud settings
I run a MacBook Air 2013, Catalina 10.15, 121 GB. I needed more space, so I ignorantly thought I could store everything on iCloud and nothing on the computer. (I have now realized that this is not ...
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MacOS Photos - How do you get facial recognition/tracking to start processing?
I have been dealing with my photo library never getting processed for facial (people) recognition & identification. I'm running a Macbook Pro 2019 (currently Ventura 13.0, Photos 8.0), 6 core ...
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How can I use Apple/IOS with this image/video workflow (on Windows 10)
For years I've had an image import/editing workflow that I've been happy with. I'll describe it next.
My question is What tools do I need to use with my Apple/IOS iPhone 14 to get this to work? My ...
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How can I view Live Photos in Ventura (Photos 8.0)?
This is making me feel pretty dumb. Live photos used to work great, but since I upgraded to Ventura (13.0/22A380) and Photos 8 (511.0.180), I don't understand how they're supposed to work. Here's what ...
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Move Album with pictures to a folder in iPhone 11 / iOS 16.1
I just moved to iOS from Android. I backed up photos through the Move to iOS app from Android to iOS.
In the android all the 3k+ photos were organized in folders. Unfortunately now it's all in the ...
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Photo library KGDB files, mac os x ventura
I have recently updated to Ventura, and the photos app changed a bit. Before the update the photos app used mostly sqlite to store all the data, but now it changed to files with .kgdb extension. I can ...
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