Questions tagged [photos]
Photographs and photography in general. For the application, use "photos.app".
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Can I tell Apple Photos to merge two duplicate photos that it hasn't identified as duplicates?
My family uses Apple Photos on our Macs (Sonoma) and iPhones (iOS 17) with a shared library. We have a lot of duplicate photos from before. I used the built in "Duplicates" album and its &...
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"Unknown Error" when importing photos on macOS Sonoma
I copied several thousand photos off of a network drive onto my local drive and I'm trying to import them into Photos. Several hundred of them had an "Unknown Error" importing, so I opened ...
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Efficient Method to Download and Save Older iMessage Photos/Videos to Photos App
I am looking for help figuring out a way to get all the photos and videos shared with me in a few conversations to appear in my Photos app on my Mac. I believe I have everything turned on to be ...
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Does the iPhone 13 "oversharpen" photos (still)?
I'm trying to decide between purchasing an iPhone 13 and an iPhone 14 (for about 100€ more). I know they're relatively similar, although the 14 has 1.5 times the amount of RAM.
One thing that is ...
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Unable to upload photos to iCloud
I have about 12000 phots in my Photos (7.0) "unable to upload" folder.
I can view these photos on my MacBook in seemingly sharp, full resolution. BUT I cannot:
edit
"Photos cannot ...
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Delete photo from photos app in mac does not remove that photo from the storage
I don't see the point of the Photos app on Mac.
I tried to use it to look at all my photos and delete unwanted ones, but it looks like I am only deleting them from the Photos gallery. And yes, I also ...
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How can I export all the photos and videos from the iPhone to my flash drive?
I have a flash drive connected to my iphone via cable. How can I export all the photos and videos from the iPhone to my flash drive?
I found support.apple.com:
Export photos and videos to an external ...
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Moving media from downloaded Apple Photos library into Synology Photos with a minimal metadata loss
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I have an almost 2TB Apple Photos library already downloaded onto an external drive. I wanted to migrate this library into Synology Photos without re-downloading it from the internet. ...
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How can I backup locally my and my family members iCloud photos?
I and other members of my family have iPhones. All of us use iCloud for backups and have "Optimize iPhone Storage" and "Advanced Data Protection" enabled. Now, I would like to back ...
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How can I recover photos that won't export from a macOS photos library, can't be edited, and have no originals?
Hopefully this will serve as a more focused and generalisable version of this question and this question.
This isn't my system photos library so the photos aren't in iCloud.
About half the 12,620 ...
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Is there a way to crop an image to specific shape?
I have a photo that I want to put inside a language assignment and part of the foreground (chicken wire) is used as a frame, and I want to crop the photo to just outside the frame. Is this possible in ...
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Mac Photos Restoring from iCloud
I have 30,000 photos and 3,000 videos in Photos. I've only decided to store these on iCloud now and have paid for 2TB space but Photos on the Mac seems to be stuck on Restoring from iCloud
I have ...
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Fix 'broken' live photos that don't play when clicked on?
The problem is very simple; I have a photos library with many live photos. But the live photos simply won't play.
It's probably the same issue as described here.
Three things I've tried
I tried these ...
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Photos on Mac uploaded to iCloud with wrong date/time
I have an old (2013 Macbook Air) Mac and a new-ish iPhone (13). I am attempting to upload photos from my Mac to iCloud so I can have a cloud-based backup and so I can download them onto my iPhone so ...
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Apple Application for transferring "filtered photos" (eg portrait) that avoid aae files
I know that with AirDrop when I share/transfer photos from my phone that have portrait or some other filter/effect applied to the image that it is the rendered/filtered image which gets copied over to ...
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