8 posts tagged ‘Photos.app’
Privacy of Photos.app’s Enhanced Visual Search
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Jeff Johnson (Mastodon, Hacker News, Reddit, 2, The Verge, Yahoo): This morning while perusing the settings of a bunch of apps on my iPhone, I discovered a new setting for Photos that was enabled by default: Enhanced Visual Search. […] There appear to be only two relevant documents on Apple's website, the first of which […]
Deleting Unused Photos From Apple Photos
I’ve been trying to reduce the storage that the Photos app uses, both on my Mac and in iCloud. I use Lightroom for my photo library, so I would like to delete all the photos that are not referenced by projects (calendars and photo books). Unfortunately, Photos is unable to display any of my projects […]
iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2
Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 introduce new Apple Intelligence features, including the first image generation capabilities. Image Playground is a new app for creating images based on text descriptions, and you can add all kinds of costumes, items, backgrounds and more. You can even make […]
Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.1 and iOS 18.1
Joanna Stern: Apple will launch iOS 18.1 next week, bringing its much anticipated generative-AI tools to the iPhone 15 Pro models and the new iPhone 16 lineup. It will be available for most newer iPads and Macs, too.If you’re expecting AI fireworks, prepare for AI…sparklers. Back in June, at the company’s annual developers conference, executives […]
iPhone 16 Adds JPEG XL
Jeremy Gray (Hacker News, Reddit): Apple and its various software iterations have supported JPEG XL for at least a year, including in Finder, Preview, Final Cut Pro, Pages, Photos, Mail, Safari, and more. Adobe has also supported the format for a while, including in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic.Despite JPEG XL supporting reversible JPEG […]
Apple Launches Journal App
Apple: Journal, a new iPhone app available today, helps users reflect and practice gratitude through journaling, which has been shown to improve wellbeing. With Journal, users can capture and write about everyday moments and special events in their lives, and include photos, videos, audio recordings, locations, and more to create rich memories. On-device machine learning […]
Computational Bridal Photo
Matt Growcoot: A woman says that “the fabric of reality crumbled” after she looked at an iPhone photo of herself trying on a wedding dress and noticed that her reflection looked different.Standing in front of two large mirrors, Tessa Coates’ reflection does not return the same pose that she is making, and not only that, […]
iOS 17.1 Lock Screen Photo Album Shuffle
Zachary McAuliffe: Apple introduced Photo Shuffle for lock screen in iOS 16. However, you could only choose categories of photos in your library and camera roll, like People and Pets, or you could use the Select Photos Manually option and go through your library to find the right photos. You were limited to 50 manually […]