How to lock/unlock the Recently Deleted and Hidden albums in Photos
What’s the point of hiding media in the Photos app if other people with access to your device can see it? That seemed to be the point of Apple’s upgrade to Photos in iOS 16,…
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Apple Photos: When should you delete files from Imports? Never!
The Photos app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS has a special album called Imports. It has the useful purpose of showing what media you imported into Photos and when that import happened. This can sometimes…
How to restart iCloud Photos syncing when all else fails
iCloud Photos generally works to sync images and videos across your hardware linked with the same Apple ID and for which you have Photos syncing enabled. When it doesn’t, don’t expect much feedback from macOS.…
Relax, that iOS 17.5 Photos bug doesn’t mean Apple keeps your deleted photos
Apple released the iOS 17.5.1 update earlier this week, fixing a bug–a potentially embarrassing one–that would suddenly recover photos that were deleted long ago. The fix comes as a relief to many, but users who…
iOS 17.5.1 update fixes rare bug that caused some deleted photos to return
Shortly after the release of iOS 17.5 last week, some users started to notice that certain photos they had previously deleted (though not all of them) started to reappear in their photo libraries.Some of the…
Warning: iOS 17.5 may resurface previously deleted photos
After installing the iOS 17.5 or iPadOS 17.5 update, you may find a surprise or two (or three or four…) in your Photos. According to several user reports online, the 17.5 update may restore photos…
How to manage depth control in iPhone photos
Photos can pop when one area is in sharp focus and the other blurry, providing the impression of depth in a two-dimensional image that matches how our eyes focus on objects, even though we don’t…
How to delete photos from iPhone but not from iCloud
If you are running out of space on your iPhone you may be looking at the huge amount of space being attributed to Photos and thinking that deleting all the photos from your iPhone would…
How to save papers, photos, and analog music digitally
Do you, like me, have paper documents that have long since been scanned and processed, records or music cassettes that you would like to listen to on your mobile phone, and photo prints that are…
How to move photos from a Mac to iCloud to save space
As photos and videos taken on compact cameras, SLRs and iPhones get more detailed and higher quality, there’s a knock-on effect of their file sizes also increasing. This means that you may find the hard…
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