What is Apple Photos?

The Photos app available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac offers an engaging and interactive user experience that showcases your most beautiful pictures. Its powerful search functionality allows you to quickly find specific images with ease. You can create customized albums to organize your photos or rely on smart albums that manage your collection automatically. Users can enhance their photos and videos with intuitive editing tools or choose to use their favorite third-party applications for additional features. With the help of iCloud Photos, all your media is securely backed up in the cloud, providing effortless access across various devices such as your Mac, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and even a PC. The app smartly organizes and curates your photos and videos, making it simple to revisit treasured memories. By concentrating on your best photographs, it effectively reduces clutter by filtering out duplicates, receipts, and screenshots, ensuring a streamlined experience. Your images are displayed in organized views categorized by Days, Months, and Years according to when they were taken. Additionally, the app highlights your top images with larger previews, and Live Photos and videos automatically play, adding a lively element to your collection. This seamless integration of organization and inventive features not only simplifies the way you manage your media but also enhances the enjoyment of sharing your most cherished moments with others. Ultimately, the Photos app is designed to celebrate your memories in a visually appealing and user-friendly manner.

Pricing

Free Version:
Free Version available.

Screenshots and Video

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Company Facts

Company Name:
Apple
Date Founded:
1976
Company Location:
United States
Company Website:
www.apple.com

Product Details

Deployment
SaaS
Mac
iPhone
iPad
Training Options
Documentation Hub
Support
Standard Support
Web-Based Support

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
1001-5000
5001-10000
10001+
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Freelance
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
English

Apple Photos Categories and Features

  • Reviewer Name: Carlos M.
    Position: Software Engineer
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    Very satisfied with the photo management in Apple Photos.

    Date: Apr 26 2023
    Summary

    Apple Photos means a lot to me because it helps me manage all the photos I have in my gallery, I should also point out that I would love it if the photos I download in browsers are stored directly in my gallery and not in the Apple Files section of my device, since it is quite annoying to have to access that folder to extract the photo to my gallery. In general, Apple Photos is perfect for managing a large group of photos, it detects all kinds of people's faces in the photos, it allows you to see the Live playback of all the photos you have taken, in addition, Apple Photos also has a video cropping feature , add filters to photos and videos, add shapes or drawings, and much more. Apple Photos covers the gallery section of my phone very well, I am completely satisfied.

    Positive

    Apple Photos allows high accessibility to a gallery of any user. The things I liked the most were:

    1- Apple Photos allows you to synchronize all the photos with the iCloud system, in this way you can access your photos when you access your Apple devices and have the same iCloud account linked, in addition, this helps you keep your photos safe inside iCloud Drive, like a backup, all your photos will be stored there if you turn on sync.

    2- You can organize each of the photos in different folders, you can extract them from the "recent" folder and organize them as you wish in folders with their own name, in addition, each of the applications has a separate folder, to store photos of Individually, such as WhatsApp or Telegram, they have their own folders in Apple Photos to store photos from their apps.

    3- Apple Photos automatically detects the faces of a group of photos to identify them in the "people and places" section, in addition, it records each of the places where the people in your gallery have taken the photos, records the location in Apple Maps.

    4- Apple Photos has incredible security for the "deleted" and "hidden" section. Users can activate security on their device such as facial authentication, people must use this authentication to access that section of the gallery.

    5- Videos, Screenshots, Live Photos, and Portrait Photos are separated into individual folders within Apple Photos, which helps the overall organization of the gallery on my device.

    Negative

    The things I didn't like about Apple Photos were:

    1- This platform does not have a tagging system for photos, you cannot add notes or attached tags to the photos you have in your gallery. That is quite a negative since if you want to add a specific note for a memory or an old photo, you cannot.

    2- All the photos in your gallery are stored within Apple iCloud if you activate the synchronization option, however, it is important to note that this photo synchronization takes a long time, even on some occasions this storage of photos in the cloud takes up to more than 2 hours to complete successfully, that's a big negative as I'd love to upload all my photos and videos to iCloud without waiting that long.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Owner
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Worst product I have ever had - bar none

    Date: Jan 21 2023
    Summary

    Sad to say it has been very poor. The support people with whom I speak are great, but unable to resolve.

    Positive

    Free. There is virtually nothing positive I can say that is good about this product as it never really works. Can't get it to operate.

    Negative

    It simply does not work well - at all. I have a brand new Mac mini - best chip. Nothing else is on this machine - completely empty storage and I am using a high quality Seagate external storage for my 45K photos. The program will start up, but under duress and spinny wheel. Greyed out photos consistently, and product has to be restarted for any changes to take place. 8 exchanges with support and no solution available. Awful.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Recruiting Coordinator
    Has used product for: 6-12 Months
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    Storage is nice, can be confusing

    Date: Feb 01 2022
    Summary

    Overall it is a nice bulk storage app but needs a little work on organization and editing. I would say I am mostly satisfied.

    Positive

    It is great to always have my pictures at the touch on all of my products. The interface is very sleek.

    Negative

    Sometimes hard to find the right photos due to organization. Editing can be a huge pain sometimes.

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  • Reviewer Name: Prithvi K.
    Position: Kotlin Developer
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 500 - 999
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    Manages the photos categorically.

    Date: Feb 01 2022
    Summary

    Overall, Apple Photos is a great application to manage photos and do post-processing on it by editing. It is smooth to use and does not make the device lag.

    Positive

    - It is smooth photo gallery with attractive animations and transition.
    - It automatically creates slideshows with pictures of events.
    - Photo can be edited inside the application with many useful tools.
    - It can be integrated with other Apple application.
    - Photos can be backed up directly from the application to iCloud.
    - It automatically creates photo memories with transitions.

    Negative

    - It does not allow categorizing the photo manually according to the user.

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  • Reviewer Name: Ankit K.
    Position: Systems Engineer
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    Clean interface with basic editing options.

    Date: Aug 18 2022
    Summary

    Overall, Apple Photos is an application to organize and view all the pictures at one place. It is smooth and optimized and works flawlessly in every Apple device.

    Positive

    1. It helps in organizing all the pictures at one place.
    2. Multiple folders can be created for different pictures, it also has a recent folder to show all the recently added pictures.
    3. The application is smooth to use and well optimized.
    4. There are also basic editing option like cropping, rotate and filters option available directly in the photos application for normal fixes.
    5. Images can also be searched via a text box and or people faces.

    Negative

    It is a clean and smooth gallery application from Apple which works great in every Apple device, No cons in my opinion.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Talent Acquisition Partner
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    A Place to Hold My Memories

    Date: Aug 23 2022
    Summary

    Overall, if you are surrounded by others who use Apple Photos just like you it is the best way to share and enjoy your memories and others as well.

    Positive

    You can view the photos on both your Apple computer and phone. But, my all time favorite feature is being able to share albums and photos with others who have apple phones. It makes it so easy to see the memories of those around you!

    Negative

    If someone doesn't have an Apple product it is hard to share the pictures with that individual.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Graphic Designer
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Easy Access to my Photos

    Date: Aug 11 2021
    Summary

    I've been really pleased with Apple Photos. Knowing all my memories are backed up to the cloud is great!

    Positive

    I love how I have easy access to all my photos no matter which device I'm on. And it's easy to make albums and share them with friends and family.

    Negative

    There really isn't anything bad to say about Apple Photos. It works just as it should!

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Customer Care Coordinator
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Apple Photos is so confusing

    Date: Jun 21 2021
    Summary

    Photos does what it needs to do with holding photos but I wish I could navigate it better and it would be easier to find old pictures.

    Positive

    I like how the photos app makes cool videos of your photos. It creates memories from your photos to show you through time what you have done or accomplished it's super cool.

    Negative

    The tabs, organization of Apple Photos is so confusing. I hope they fix the UI in the new iOS update.

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  • Reviewer Name: Mathew W.
    Position: IT Support
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Poor photo management and file structure

    Date: Sep 20 2021
    Summary

    You're better off manually uploading, organizing, and tracking photos than using this software. It is cumbersome and will automatically alter RAW files.

    Positive

    Having an app where you can track all of your photos by day uploaded is good for chronological sorting.

    Negative

    Will not save files in RAW, forcing edits to be held elsewhere. Sorting can be messy.

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  • Reviewer Name: Steven K.
    Position: Serve Pastor
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
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    Apple Photos - works fine

    Date: Apr 01 2021
    Summary

    Overall, I would recommend Apple Photos and our family uses it regularly. I haven't found anything better than this.

    Positive

    Apple Photos is helpful for storing all of my photos. We take lots of them on our phones! Very useful.

    Negative

    I wish Apple Photos had a way to distinguish between everyday photos and special family photos. I get tired of scrolling through all of my photos to look for something. The albums feature doesn't work very well.

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  • Reviewer Name: Samantha H.
    Position: Digital Marketing Specialist
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Storage and syncing

    Date: Oct 12 2021
    Summary

    This app does more than just stores photos it creates memories, you can search for photos based on a timeframe and even use facial recognition! It's the best.

    Positive

    Apple photos is so reliable! I am able to capture the moments happening around me knowing that apple is going to sync my photos and I will be able to browse them on any device later.

    Negative

    More free cloud storage would be great. It's frustrating to be sold storage.

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