Photos 4+

Browse, edit and share your picture-perfect moments. Photos is the home for all your amazing photos and videos, and it’s smart and personal, with intelligent features that help you find, enjoy and share your best shots.

Browse and organise your library
• In the Library tab, the All Photos view displays your photos and videos in an interactive zoomable grid, and Days, Months and Years views curate your best moments, removing clutter and bringing your library to life with animated video playback
• The Albums tab lets you organise your photos just how you want
• People and Places albums let you browse your photos by who's in them and where they were taken
• Media Types automatically organise your photos into helpful albums like Videos, Portrait mode, Screenshots and more
• The duplicates album helps you clean up your library by merging duplicate photos

Relive your memories and more in For You
• The For You tab contains Memories, Shared Album activity, Sharing Suggestions, and the best moments from your library in Featured Photos
• Memories uses on-device intelligence to find trips, holidays, people, pets and more in your collection, and presents them as movies paced to music, including intelligent song suggestions from Apple Music for Apple Music subscribers

Find just what you’re looking for with powerful Search
• On-device machine learning analyses your photos so you can search for people, places, dates, events, and even objects and scenes like basketball, birthday cake or beach
• Intelligent search suggestions surface important events, people, places and dates even before you type in the search bar

Perfect your photos using sophisticated yet easy-to-use tools in Edit
• Fine‑tune your photos and videos with powerful tools like auto enhance, highlights, shadows, vibrance and definition, and apply edits to another image or to a batch
• Nearly every tool and effect available for photos can also be used on videos, including rotate, crop and auto enhance
• Adjust keyframes in Live Photos and add fun effects

Share with friends and family
• Share to Messages, Mail and third-party apps directly from Photos
• Share photos seamlessly with up to five other family members with iCloud Shared Photo Library
• Use Shared Albums to share photos and videos with just the people you choose
• iCloud Links let you send a set of photos and videos with a link that can be viewed on any platform, in any browser

Keep your library safe and up to date with iCloud Photos
• Store your photos and videos safely in iCloud and access them from any device, anytime, including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac, on iCloud.com, or even on a PC
• Your library stays up to date across all your devices

Keep your photos private
• Photos protects your privacy by using on-device intelligence to analyse your photos and videos
• Face recognition, scene detection, object detection and more are all done completely on your device
• The Hidden and Recently Deleted albums are locked by default and can be unlocked using your device’s authentication method

Use the Photos app on Apple Watch to access your favourite photos on your wrist
• View and manage your Memories, Featured Photos or an album you’ve synced to your Apple Watch
• Relive your favourite moments with highlights from Memories
• Watch your Live Photo come to life straight from your wrist
• Create a Photos or Portraits watch face
• Share a photo from your library with someone from your contacts