Apple’s Native Photo’s App is Magnificent | Here's a Full Walkthrough

Apple's Photos app has evolved over the last 15 years and has become one of the most feature-rich native apps that apple has to offer. I wanted to give you a complete walkthrough of all the features the app has!
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Chapters
0:00 - The Photos App is Very Robust
0:45 - Basic Navigation
3:00 - How to filter photo view
3:56 - View Photos Taken on a Map
4:28 - In photo navigation
4:39 - How to share image
5:08 - Visual Lookup
5:24 - How to add captions to photo
5:45 - How to view & Edit photo Metadata
6:26 - Photo Search
7:39 - Text lookup
8:00 - Photo Albums
8:50 - Media Types
9:47 - Imports Album
10:00 - Duplicates Album
10:45 - Hidden Album
11:25 - Recently Deleted
12:00 - Creating Albums
12:30 - Creating Folders
13:05 - Editing Photos
16:30 - Copying and Pasting Edits
17:08 - Live Photos
18:06 - For You Section
19:10 - Background removal
19:48 - Live Text
20:16 - create stickers
20:42 - More Live text
21:14 - final thoughts
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[@wilsonfutrell1833]

🐬 Even though I have had iPhones and iPads for years, your videos on their features help remind me of tools that I don’t use very much or have forgotten about. Thanks.

[@CloudWriter_oidv]

Something that I didn't see you mention is that with the live photos you can review all the frames and choose a different one as the finished picture. For me, this is especially is handy for selfies.

[@impressionsbygelay8617]

🐬I used to spend so much time edting multiple photos applying the same filter adjustments. Glad you shared copy/paste edits exist. Thank you!

[@9to5Mac]

You are so welcome!

[@JeffTiberend]

The only dumb thing is that all downloaded photos get put into the Camera Roll instead of a separate Downloads Folder. The Camera Roll should only be for photos that were taken on the iPhone. Even Android is smart enough to do it this way.

[@jaestreets751]

And when you make a folder it just copies the picture you put in the folder therefore taking more space

[@paperplates1867]

Eh, it's not that big of a deal. You can go into the photos app, and then search for photos taken on the iPhone you're using.

[@paperplates1867]

@@jaestreets751 That's false. It doesn't duplicate the photo, it sorts the photos.

[@bigpunchline]

@@paperplates1867 and if you have 3000??? U du/m this is stupid, that the problem

[@JeffTiberend]

@@paperplates1867 But, this makes for a mess. All photos should be in Photos, but, the camera roll should be it's own folder. I honestly believe that Android handles storing and managing photos better.

[@hotmonkeyfilms]

One of the best walk-through. Learn so many new things. Thanks for the great Tutorial.

[@MrMgd33]

Great job explaining these features!! It gave me a better understanding of the photos app and how to really get the most out of it. How do you know what your folders are and how many you might have once you create them? Do they come up as an option once you have them created? Different color would help at times too.

[@jeffhale1189]

Thanks for sharing. I appreciate the detailed coverage of the photos app. Blessings on your day 🐬

[@maxwelllanerolle8973]

Fantastic. This is Maxwell from Sri-Lanka an apple fan since 2009. Thanks for your explanations. I learned some things new.

[@drticzon]

Wow! What a helpful tip video. I have been using the Photo app since the very first version came out and completely forgot about many of the features. The most helpful was the duplicate utility. Found out I have over 25,000 duplicate photos in my 165K+ photo library. Thank you for making this video.

[@Itsdoublejj23]

I wish they would let us add albums not in a folder to one. And I'd really like to see batch captions for photos. I use captions for when sometimes people's faces aren't clearly visible and being able to use one caption for multiple photos would be great.

[@BenSussmanpro]

Great job! Some features like cropping, stickers, etc. I wasn’t aware of. To other commenters, just because the app doesn’t have what you want, it’s not the creator’s fault!

[@farside51]

What a great informative video for this senior with a new iPhone 15pro. You’re 100% correct about how robust the standard photos app is . Definitely no need for third party photo apps for me. Thank you for sharing. I subscribed. 👍

[@skepticsr_us]

Great video. Now I need one that will cover all the editing features like adding text and arrows on top of the photos

[@GaelyneGasson]

I didn't know about the wallpaper and other sizes. Very cool. Will be handy for a few different projects. 🐬

[@andresalgadomarques]

Just came back to iPhone from Android (it's been a few years) and learned quite a lot from this video, thank you!

[@ViditKothari]

Don't you miss the Smart Folder for segregating your camera clicks from the other random photos in your phone?

[@andresalgadomarques]

@@ViditKothari I am starting fresh with my iPhone and every pictures I take I put straight into an album, that way I know they’re more organised than just all together in the Camera Roll. The way Android lets you organise photos is much better in my opinion, but I wanted to use an iPhone once again for other reasons.

[@helenmcilroy]

Great video. Love the sticker making best. ❤

[@jo_io2332]

Thanks, this video was very useful for me!

[@PixelCultureMedia]

Great video!! I’d also add on the hidden folder features. You can also hide the hidden folder in Photos in the Settings.

[@andreasschmidt553]

🐬 Great summary even for a very literate iPhone user! Thanks!🙏

[@DerikTran]

I hope they give us their version of Magic Eraser and Best Take. One can only HOPE.

[@jamesdai3953]

These tips are awesome! You da man!

[@vicrobinson1366]

Excellent information video, there was things that I knew you could do but not sure which way to do it 👍👏

[@ted_jerome]

Great and complete tutorial! 🐬

[@RedOrchid5400]

Super helpful!

[@italyonedaysoon3224]

🐬thanks for the informative video!

[@murtadha96]

Very useful! thanks

[@mrktm65sx]

🐬What a great video! So helpful and informative! Learned a LOT from this. Will probably watch it again later to ensure I haven't forgotten anything. Any chance you can do a similar video on the Mac Photos app?

[@rep3e4]

Awesome thanks

[@carlcard7]

🐬 thanks for this, great tips and tricks 😁

[@samuelakasam]

19:45 wow that’s amazing

[@13st_rob]

I didn't know about the sticker feature. that's tough🚀

[@Fraden7]

Great video thank you Fernando 🐬

[@jimlippincott5523]

If you take a picture of a billboard, or anything, that has a phone # on it, you can press and hold the phone number on the photo and the iphone will dial that number.

[@guadalupegriffin8568]

Thanks for the info,now I know I can copy a picture of my flowers on a text. 😊

[@ginza67]

🐬Great vid.

[@sharonb.9128]

Don’t forget you can identify landmarks and interesting places you might have unknowingly captured in your travels. If the ML tool can identify it, tap the photo and the name and description will also pop up. I think a symbol is on the photo next to the item.

[@MarkBurdickPhD]

Hi, boomer comment 😂 For viewers who find your pace a bit overwhelming, the transcript feature works great for reviewing whatever one finds important and care to review - Summary: keep up the good work, and stay young!

[@davidhobson300]

You can also slow the speed down. Click on the settings icon while viewing the video and the speed can be changed in increments faster or slower.

[@STGJones]

It would be nice if you could add existing photo albums to a new photo folder.

[@zafk_11]

🐬 I just learned the “copy edit” function! This is a very informative video

[@9to5Mac]

Thanks for watching!

[@omarlynn2992]

Jersey!! 🤙🏽

[@60beats44]

Thank you very much for this informative presentation. I am baffled regarding the Duplicates function. I apparently have in excess of 2,000 duplicates in my Photos library, but there is no obvious information about where these copies might be located.

[@ed1wweaver]

🐬Good Stuff!

[@daneainsworth2198]

Nicely done, simple and straight forward. Appreciate The input.

[@raygold1]

🐬 Thanks!

[@JoeCools]

Would like to see more about photo management as Apple photo management is terrible for having to search and look or manage folders

[@barnaclerusty]

It would be nice if there was a was to down size images in photo... change the pixels

[@MoirtyG]

Informative video. Thanks. Do you recommend duplicating photos before doing edits. I worry that I will want the original for something and it will somehow get lost along the way. Of course, it uses more space. I'm also curious if you delete media or simply let it build-up over time. It's nice to retain everything but, again, it uses space.

[@paperplates1867]

If you make an edit on a photo in the Photos app, you can redo the edits back to the original.

[@kyleh6984]

I would agree if it allowed multiple libraries and more than one Hidden album.

[@ront335]

You can have a many Photos libraries as you want. However, only one library can be used as the System Photo Library and be uploaded to iCloud Photos under one iCloud account.

[@kingpuppet5881]

I love iPhone for editing but I wish it had more options that were akin to Lightroom or photoshop. Great video. Thanks.

[@paperplates1867]

On Mac, it has more editing features than iPhone. But I do agree nonetheless.

[@jonathanrayburn]

You mentioned there is a way to remove the date and time. How do you do that?

[@mohammedwaseem1317]

can you make collage of photos from magnificent photo app?

[@9to5Mac]

Awesome Job!! -Jeff

[@GCarnell]

Great tips! Thanks. Possible to add folders to the Hidden Album?

[@ront335]

There is no option to create folders in the Hidden Album unless there is a secret key command to do so which I doubt.

[@GCarnell]

@@ront335 Thanks. Perhaps Apple should consider creating one, if they’ve not thought to do so already.

[@9to5Mac]

Unfortunately not

[@wanderingfool6312]

🐬 Trying to physically backup the photos when you change your phone but don’t have a Mac, is really difficult. You can’t copy them because some of them are in the cloud. You can’t download it to your phone because you probably don’t have room on your phone. You can’t just copy them from the cloud, you’re just pushed to subscriptions and then you’re trapped. I am looking at getting a MacBook Air at some point, then hopefully things will get easier.

[@SuburbaniteUrbanite]

Pretty sure we are all familiar with the photos app for one reason: to fix it when our photos display in portrait instead of landscape

[@MsSjaakvaak]

One total miss from apple is that you cannot actually click and open the location of a picture. 'Imagine' having a picture of a bakery, you want to go back to this, find the location based on gps data, but zero possibility of clicking the picture and opening maps to navigate there.

[@siloPIRATE]

It does. Tap on the place name and it will open Maps with there location selected

[@BobDobbs681]

Good video I'm bookmarking for when I need it. My problem is I just kind of dabble in photography and I won't remember much of this because I'll use the info so infrequently. Live photos is my nemesis -- I don't like it and I'm always turning it on accidentally.

[@BobDobbs681]

@javirancheros8781 Thank you! I made that change.

[@paperplates1867]

You can turn off Live Photos. Go to Settings -> Camera -> Preserve Settings -> Live Photo.

[@TechFromRony]

Good

[@carolwatts944]

Thanx for this. Much of what you taught, I already knew. But you mentioned several things I didn’t have a clue about. 👍🏻 I use Apple photos edits exclusively (& then go into iColorama for the “fancy stuff.” Used to be a big LR fan, but have found that combining Apple & iColorama are all I need.) HOWEVER - once I have my albums/folders set up, I always want them in alphabetical order. Quite often I find that they’re totally mixed around. I think Apple expects us all to live with dates. I don’t. I used categories - ergo, alphabetical. (Yes - I’m very Old School, I know 🙄.) Is there some way to keep my albums in my preferred order? I appreciate your suggestions & tutorials.

[@paperplates1867]

You can change the order of your albums. On your iPhone, go to albums, then click on edit, then hold down on an album and move it around.

[@carolwatts944]

@@paperplates1867 Have done that many times. For some reason, tho, I find them jumbled again. Annoying. I just live with it & grumble sometimes. 😏

[@ThomasGehlhaus]

You skipped the function to create fake long exposure images from Live Photos. It’s not perfect but I use it quite often 👍🏻😊

[@GuyFromGeorgia]

Can’t wait to see how AI improves this experience. Also, we gotta know what happened to your two forefingers. Or are we supposed to have fun guessing?

[@pmbear]

I want folders within folders… in the photo app… I know I’m asking for the moon and the stars!!!

[@paperplates1867]

But... You can put a folder in a folder... What are you on about?

[@b4urEnvy]

Nice video and good to know but all over the world is not the US, Spain and UK 🤭

[@SuburbaniteUrbanite]

You forgot it’s most bespoke feature: randomly restoring pictures and images you deleted years ago

[@JaymeNigri]

Why my 3 dots menu in Library view doesn’t show the libraries options?

[@Dale-ko9kc]

What did you do to your fingernails?

[@martinrandyd]

It still doesn’t do the one basic thing I need. When I move a photo to another album I do not need it in the Recents. I can never get organized if I can’t shrink that huge pile.

[@qayyaxTech]

Recent is not an album you know, it is your recent photos

[@ga.vijaymuruganvijay9683]

I love Steve jobs I love apple 🍎

[@mrmuffin5046]

The biggest flaw is the fact that you can’t choose what to upload manually. I don’t want it uploading everything to the cloud mos pictures are useless

[@nixl3518]

Since it can’t read ur mind even if “AI”, it leaves it up to you to delete it from the cloud, but if u delete a pic off the app, it will delete it from the cloud as well and it tells you that before confirming!

[@matthewsachaullymce279]

is there any way to sort by the file size?, so I can find and delete the most space occupied videos..

[@9to5Mac]

unfortunately not

[@KeithBarnett]

It has nice features but at a cost. I recently took all my photos out and down graded my iCloud plan.

[@pressrepeat2000]

Can you sort photos and videos by size? Still not! Would be the most useful feature in there, to find those huge files.

[@mvp_kryptonite]

The 3 dots have a name lol. The mases need to learn it 🤣 Nice run through. I like the map view and searching function & learnt something new with the duplicates (only had 2), how to create sticker and copy edits which I will never use

[@Wes_Barton]

And that name is?

[@mvp_kryptonite]

@@Wes_Barton ellipsis

[@stormrider01]

I hate that the app doesn´t order my photos by date including downloaded images. When I download an image, the app places it near the oldest photo in the library! Why the heck?

[@siloPIRATE]

It does. The metadata in the actual photo is what it’s using to short photos, not the date you saved it. So if you save a photo that says it was created in 1997, that’s where it will put it

[@muyazit]

How i can move photos to another albums, not copy!

[@Blackspanishman]

The million Dollar Question my friend

[@ront335]

You can put a photo or several photos in as many albums as you want.

[@muyazit]

@@ront335 not copy my friend!

[@paperplates1867]

Photos will always move, not copy when you put a photo into an album. It will never make a duplicate of itself.

[@muyazit]

@@paperplates1867 thats wrong beo, the original pic is at always there on the firs album.

[@ZotmundSzele]

1st question: can you change the setup so that new photos are on top? It's is just so annoying to have the new ones on the bottom.

[@Wes_Barton]

You can in albums that you have created but not in the default library.

[@MommywithaCause]

That's Apple for you! 🙄

[@paperplates1867]

@@MommywithaCause What? For making a design that's not an inconvenience? Grrr Apple!

[@Blackspanishman]

What I hate about the Fotos app. if when you create albums and put pictures in it. It stays in the recent pictures rather than move from recents to the new album 😒. It's messy like that HATE IT!!

[@siloPIRATE]

Recents is not an album, just like recentso on Mac and Windows are not folders. They just show the stuff you saved most recently

[@Blackspanishman]

@@siloPIRATE its an default album that has all the pictures. Its called recents but it has all the pictures on it so its not recents its like the camera roll on samsung. The trouble is when you move a picture to a created it stays in recents which ideally it would leave that folder or album how every you want to call it make it more organised

[@sh1pp]

I’m going to have to disagree with you. Recent is a time based label and should absolutely keep everything that you recently took in there even if you have added it to another album because it is still a photo you recently took. I think way more people would be bothered by them being removed from there because what if they can’t find a photo in an album they think they put it in - at least they can go to recents as a way to find it quickly.

[@jebaker2]

Your dog's name is Doggo? 😂

[@9to5Mac]

Haha no. It’s Archie. Doggo was just what came to mind

[@jebaker2]

@@9to5Mac ha ha! Much better name! 🐬

[@rb95051]

Useful

[@michaelanthonytollan]

great video , but what i cant find is how to forexample make face smoother , or hide the wrinkles or take away bags under eyes hehe .Samsung had this and yes apple great gallery but not the best when comes to editing pictures of persons

[@9to5Mac]

Apple has seemed to stay away from the ‘FaceTuning’ aspect of video editing. Idk why. But that is just what they decided

[@michaelanthonytollan]

@@9to5Mac can you recommend an app for that then , cheers

[@Jack908r]

And yet I still can't make the most recent photo be at the top. Who puts the most recent anything at the bottom?

[@shank98]

Why they removed camera album 😢. Struggles to find photos taken from my phone

[@siloPIRATE]

Aren’t 99% of the photos on your phone taken by the phone with the rest being screenshots and stuff saved from other places?

[@paperplates1867]

You can search for photos taken with your camera. Just go into the search function.

[@DB-020]

Turning off Live Photo doesn't remove any data unfortunately. You must duplicate them, and save “duplicate as still photos” to remove data. All metadata will be saved, except they are shown first in recent photos. After that you can delete the original Live photos.

[@paperplates1867]

Just turn off Live Photos at this point...

[@siloPIRATE]

🐬

[@A.H_610]

The Map feature is sooo bad it shows places I have never went to in my life :D

[@ront335]

That only means that you have incorrect metadata in some of you photos.

[@paperplates1867]

You can manually change the location.

[@VinceBaileydns-direct]

I can you export photos out to an external disk and save space in iCloud?

[@RavioliRudi]

Ahhhh I don’t know man The thing that annoys me the most is that they could at least give me an option to hide pictures from the recents if they are in an album It’s annoying af

[@johntmcdonough176]

At 77 years old trying to keep up with you is impossible. You should try using your big toes to type and it might slow you down a bit. I also am so distracted with all the hand movement.

[@strallent]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@tianm1m160]

The photos app has a screenshot folder but it does not have an album that has camera photos only like Google Photos. It is very irritating.

[@spiritualjoy721]

Unfortunately for me, many of these tips (like making stickers) did not work on my iphone13Pro🤷🏽‍♀️ (not a sticker).

[@sh1pp]

Not sure why that didn’t work for you. I have an iPhone 12 and the stickers work for me.

[@spiritualjoy721]

@@sh1pp interesting. Maybe I will give them another try.

[@paperplates1867]

Make sure your iPhone is up to date.

[@tetchuma]

I would like to import photos based on their creation date, rather than them being added to the bottom of the thread…

[@paperplates1867]

It does sort them by creation date in the Library. The Recents album is where it puts all images and videos at the bottom, regardless of when it was taken.

[@TelemachusS1]

I am 86. I cannot understand a word you’ve said, talk slower please

[@AlexandrusavuRo]

Playback speed 0.75x if you have issues

[@MrLuigi-oi7gm]

Hi Tele, To change the playback speed of a KZbin video and you're using an iPad or iPhone, tap on the video. That will cause several icons to appear at the top right of the screen. Click on the icon that looks like a gear. You will then see a list of options. One of those is to adjust the playback speed. Good luck!

[@donaldduck7268]

Yeah. I wanna enjoy the videos but I agree the talking speed very rushed rushed. I never used the speed adjustment to be slower to understand someone and I don’t think I ever will.

[@nominomij]

The thing that remains a mystery is that the battery will decrease dramatically when we open or interact with this iPhone's Photo App. That's suck!

[@paperplates1867]

It's because its syncing photos and videos to your iCloud.

[@bondr006]

It is definitely a great app. One of my most used after iTunes and Safari. Thanks Fernando. Hoping you and your family are safe and well.😊

[@omerfar]

Just show me how to sort by size…. I am waiting

[@paperplates1867]

You're going to have to wait longer then.

[@cdelrioc]

Every time I remember they discontinued Aperture and replaced it with this I want to throw up

[@NOT_A_TOP_FAN]

Interesting. Never once have I heard anyone say it’s magnificent… the most glaring thing is not being able to quickly identify photos you haven’t put into an album. It’s incredibly frustrating….

[@paperplates1867]

Theres a search function...

[@bryankibet1587]

React to the new apple lawsuit monopoly by the doj

[@brit4uk]

All of that and iPhone still can't move a picture from one album to another. It copies which takes up more space. It's such a simple organizational tool. . . 😊

[@paperplates1867]

It doesn't duplicate the photos. Why do people keep thinking this?? If you put a photo into an album it doesn't duplicate it.