![]() And even that was only possible because I asked Apple about it for this review, and the company (with my permission) analyzed my library and found a “rare bug” it says it had never seen before. While syncing my locally stored photo library, the cloud service failed to do its job properly.Įven though my iPhoto library of 18,000 images isn’t considered large by Apple standards, and my home Internet is speedy in both directions, my library took nearly three days and nights to upload to the cloud - far longer than Apple estimated. That’s because Apple says the two photo products are closely “intertwined.”Īlas, my positive feelings about Photos on the Mac didn’t extend to iCloud Photo Library. ![]() It’s faster, easier to use and has a more modern feel.Īnd although the new Photos software can be used without the cloud service, I’ve been testing that, too, roping an iPhone and two iPads into the process. I’ve been testing the new Photos app on two different Macs, and I consider it a big improvement over iPhoto. It’s essentially a Mac app that catches up to the superior look and feel of the Photos apps on the iPhone and iPad, but with greater power.Īt the same time, Apple has introduced an optional service, called iCloud Photo Library, which stores all your photos in the cloud and syncs them among all your Apple devices.īoth have been in beta, or test releases, but became available to everyone last week as part of Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. It’s much faster, less cluttered and has more editing options, yet still makes them simple to use. Now, at last, Apple has replaced iPhoto with a new, free Mac app called simply Photos. It was often slow to scroll through thousands of pictures, and its minimal editing tools seemed increasingly inadequate. Rather than focusing on tweaking individual photos to perfection, it was centered on easy organizing of the many images people were beginning to accumulate via digital cameras.īut as a tidal wave of photos arrived from smartphones in recent years, the iPhoto software became overwhelmed. So, feel free to try out Photos - if it isn’t to your liking, at least yet, you can always go back to iPhoto - just remember that anything you do in one won’t be reflected in the other.When Apple introduced iPhoto in 2002, it was a tremendous boon to casual photographers. Click Install and it will be put back in your Applications folder. Instead, click on Purchased at the top, and it should appear on the list of applications. Delete iPhoto from your Applications folder.However, if it wasn’t already updated to version 9.6.1, it will have a big “do not” icon superimposed on it and you can’t open it, which makes it seem as though it’s gone forever. The first thing you’ll probably want to do is choose “Show Sidebar” from the View menu so you can see all of your folders that were in iPhoto. ![]() From that point onward, anything you do in Photos won’t appear in iPhoto, and anything you do in iPhoto won’t appear in Photos. When you first open Photos, it imports everything from your iPhoto library (though in a way that doesn’t occupy more disk space), and creates a new Photos library. The downside is that many find it less intuitive to use (particularly if you relied on iPhoto’s date organization), and in some cases is slow and buggy. The upsides is that it has better photo editing tools, supports larger libraries, and offers iCloud Photo Library, which is the long sought after holy grail: the ability to have photo libraries synchronized across all your devices and computers. ![]() If iPhoto was in your dock, it is replaced by the new Photos app. What happened is that with the very latest OS X upgrade - Yosemite version 10.10.3 - Apple introduced their new replacement for both iPhoto and Aperture, called simply Photos, like the app already on your iPad or iPhone. Something that’s been popping up lately for my clients is: What happened to iPhoto? It’s a good question, indeed.
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