You’ve never experienced your photos quite like this. With the new Memories feature, Photos helps you rediscover favourite and forgotten moments. And advanced search technology and editing tools let you find, share and remaster your photos in entirely new ways.
Introducing Memories — a powerful new feature that searches your photos and videos to find events, trips, people and more, then presents them in beautiful collections. Rediscover a weekend bushwalk, or big events like a first birthday or family holiday. And see related photos by swiping up on any image in the Photos app. The Memories tab shows up to three new Memories every day, so you can relive all your special moments.
Memories analyses your best photos and videos, and stitches them together into an amazing Memory Movie — complete with theme music, titles and cinematic transitions. And you can edit every detail of your Memory Movie to make sure it’s exactly how you want to remember it.
Photos makes it easier than ever to find a specific shot. It uses advanced face recognition technology to group photos by person, and lets you pinpoint a photo based on where you took it thanks to a new Places album. Photos also recognises scenes or objects in your photos, so you can search for things like dogs, beaches, mountains or flowers.
Organise your photos by who’s in them. Simply tap a group of photos of someone and add the person’s name. You can also mark people as favourites so they’re easier to find.
The Places album lets you view all your photos, videos and Live Photos on a beautiful new map layout. Zoom in to reveal more photos at the specific location you took them.
Easily search your images for things like cars or trees or snow. You can even ask Siri to help look for photos, with commands like “Find my pictures with dogs in them”.
One of the best things about Photos is how it protects your privacy. iOS is designed to take advantage of the powerful processor built into every iPhone and iPad. So when you search your photos for instance, all the face recognition and scene and object detection are done completely on your device. Which means your photos are yours and yours alone.
Add personality to your photos with stickers and Markup. Use the Share sheet to share photos via iCloud Photo Sharing or AirDrop. Or post photos with a tap to your favourite photo-sharing sites, like Facebook and Twitter.
Whatever your skill level, you’ll be able to create photo masterpieces right there in the Photos app. You don’t have to wait to get back to your Mac to do it. Photos can make beautiful edits for you. Or you can take control and fine-tune every aspect of a photo yourself.
Now you can edit Live Photos just like any other photo, using the built‑in editing tools. Crop, add filters, adjust light and colour, and more. It’s all up to you.
Beautiful, moody or fun. Tap to experiment with enhanced photo filters. If you don’t like how it looks, you can always revert to the original.
Modify the overall light in a photo with a single control. Behind the scenes, Photos intelligently adjusts exposure, brightness, contrast, brilliance and more — giving everyone, even the complete novice, great results.
If you want to take your photo editing further, Photos lets you do that too. You can use third-party photo-editing tools to make sure everything’s picture perfect. And you can do it all without leaving the Photos app.
Every photo and video you take now lives in iCloud — giving you the freedom to access your library from any device, whenever you want. So you can view a photo from last week or last year no matter where you are. iCloud Photo Library keeps every photo and video you take all in one place, and you can access them from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac; on iCloud.com; and even with your PC.
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