User Reviews: Photos

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  • I tried to find a tutorial how to get rid of a photo album but makes nonsense.

    I think HihGamers right, Apple are you taking this next 100% level of being ridiculous and stupid or even worst? I tried finding every tutorial to get rid of a photo album and it’s tutorial thing makes sense for a second, But now it gets nonsense that says “drag the photo album, and I tried dragging a photo album and nothing happened, nothing dragged or anything just that, This is why you never trust apple man this apple app is the main cause all of it because this takes anger torture to a whole new level. Edit: Your 50 month for free storage is just nah that is just way too expensive, Lower your freaking price to like 5.99 man, Freaking stupid app photos has gotten today, Like deleting photos to free up storage doesn’t work, Like I can’t just delete everything in one piece god dam. Edit 2: Moon light studios your review talking about the haters isn’t right, You probably don’t understand what the horrible things and issues has gotten into photos, When I delete a photo or a video just for storage, It doesn’t work so get that straight because old devices do this kind of stuff to make me mad.
  • Suggested quality of life features

    A huge time saver would be if I could save photo “Adjust” settings so that I could apply the same settings in one tap to each photo instead of having to slide through each individual setting for every additional photo.

    Even more amazing would be if we could sync these saved “Adjust” profiles to the camera app, and be able to have them applied to new photos real-time (could have restrictions on which settings can be applied live like exposure, as necessary).

    Also a potential great time saver would be if “Auto” adjust could simultaneously pull up a mini straightening wheel and crop markers, and have it be the default to open up to rather than “Focus”. Or alternatively, have this special “Auto & Crop” option appear as the magic wand icon right next to Edit, an alternative to doing the full photo edit. It would be so convenient to be able to rapidly use the auto adjust, straightening and cropping with a single tap - a one-stop-shop for quick photo edits.
  • Terrible…

    I absolutely LOVE this app but I wanted to do a slideshow for my album and I wanted to pick a song from my library like…22 by Taylor Swift or…Diamonds by Rihanna but suddenly it doesn’t let me go so PLEASE stop and fix. I terribly hate this app now although I love it, I’m did a very dumb thing to the slideshow so first I downloaded all the songs I had in my library, (especially the Demi Lovato songs) but it kept not working so yeah I hate it right now!! PLEASE STOP!!!! My brain is so full of possible killers and stupid question!!! Why are you doing this??? I thought you like it!! NOW no one wants haters, right? But IM REALLY A HATER ON THIS APP NOW!! I think we must be careful, because ITS LIKE, WE ALL KNOW THE TRUTH, BUT CAN WE JUST GET THE CHANCE TO DO OUR OWN THING??! Okay, I’m getting a bit fed right now, but…I EXPLODED THE TRUTH!! Everything is dumb, but fine! Songs just make your brain work harder!! Why are you stopping my music from good luck to the, ITS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!! My dear, please stop ugh! HELP ME!!!! Oh, ugh, dumb app…
  • Markup update is AWFUL

    I have always used the markup function FREQUENTLY. It actually used to work fine but now (17.4.1) if you are adding a shape (in my case an arrow) it snap-locks the orientation of the shape either 90 degrees, 45 degrees or flat. If you are marking up a photo without these THREE SPECIFIC ANGLES it becomes near impossible to edit. Your only option becomes going “back” with the back arrow to prior edit states… but wait, it gets better! I mean WORSE. If you go “back” it becomes nearly impossible to select your shape for editing by tapping on it (like you used to) and you end up only making dots or lines with the paintbrush tool! Then if you go “back” one step to far you are prevented from going “forward” a single step.
    I finally gave up on adding arrows and just tried adding text and even that is more difficult than it used to be.
    Please bring back the old functionality or AT LEAST give us the option to turn on/off snap locking angles.
    Honestly, I’ve seen some terrible updates but this one may take the prize of being apple’s worst update since initially removing the MagSafe charger connection.
  • Mediocre UX

    Photos is terrible for users who want to manage and organize their photos. Yes, albums can be created, but Apple still dumps everything into Recents and it all stays there even if the photo is added to an album. This is infuriating to users who want a clean, organized set of photos without having to sift through thousands in Recents and without them appearing in both places once they are found and added to album. The filter functionality is marginal, and doesn’t include tags or captions. Smart Album functionality is only on the Mac, so even if you do set up smart albums, they won’t show up on phone or iPad. Hidden album is just a repeat of the mindless dumping ground approach that Apple inflicts on its users. There are plenty of reasons why someone might want to hide a photo, but that just fills another unorganized pile because albums can’t be created within. Terrible if you want to find a hidden photo down the road. Come on Apple…why are you so averse to giving users basic organizing features? This app feels like it hasn’t had any sort of meaningful update in a decade, and you need to do better.
  • good app ! But ……

    Sup , I like this app :) it’s nice whenever I wanna take a photo of something or a video or just have to have plain fun. The app is always there. I love every feature about it, but there is one thing that does bother me. this part of my review is specifically for the creators of this app. Your feature portrait is amazing one of my favorites but it’s hard to take a nice photo with portrait. I want to get a close-up or I want to get some thing far away but still get that portrait like affect. because it tells me to get closer or move far away even though it’s the opposite of what I want to do to get the photo. When you think about problems and things you wanna do to make people like the app better this probably isn’t your biggest concern but I wanted to put it out there just to see if there’s anyway my problem could be fixed, even though there is a very slim chance of that happening.
  • Memories

    Overall, the app is great, but the one problem is the Memory option. Before you update your phone (in my case), you have the option to blend the photos and videos you want at what length you want and play whatever song you want. Now (after you update it to the new version (in my case)) you can’t do any of that. Your phone just picks the videos and photos and plays them at whatever length the phone wants and picks its own song. You have absolutely no control. I really HATE that. Could you put it back to the original version where you could pick and choose the photos and videos YOU want, play the music from your library that YOU want, and what lengths YOU want the video clips and whole memory to be? PLEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAASE?! I miss making my own custom movie trailers THE WAY I WANT and sending them out!
  • Too redundant

    Why are there so many steps to having to select and move photos around? Why are there so many steps when I want to delete or recover photos? I feel like there’s a lot of redundancy here that is absolutely unnecessary and doesn’t add any layer of “mistake-proof-actions”.

    Furthermore, when backing up my photographs to a cloud service. The photographs that I have starred don’t get moved to their own album rather it just creates like a hyperlink album. So when I back up my photos, and then delete the photos from my phone, all the photos that I have starred, go along with it, making the action of starring Photos absolutely in completely useless.

    Also, why can I just press and hold onto select a photo? Why can’t I order prints? Why do I have to export my photos to Files which is a file system emulator just to manipulate the photos in a certain way? I don’t understand apples thinking behind this do you want us to use Files which is a file system emulator or do you not want us to use Files? What’s the reasoning in logic behind splitting certain medium manipulation functions, such as removing the background to a whole separate app?
  • Good!

    If you have a newer phone, the phone has a theme called portrait. It blurs out the background and you can see you. Also they have Live Photos, which when you press down on the picture the picture has the motion that the thing was doing. There is a search option, and a memories option. The memories option lets you see things that you did with a day or a year. It adds music (that you can change) and goes through photos of that day/year. If you swipe down, you can add a caption to your video/photo. You also can see the species or kind of plant by pressing a button. If it’s a plant, tap the leaf button. If it’s a dog, tap the paw. When you tap it, it gives you facts about it. It shows pictures too! You also can name people. When you name them it shows up in the search. When you tap on them you see photos of that person. Of course, on top of the photos it shows the date, and place!
  • Good App, but connection with Google Photos is significantly lacking

    Let me start of by saying that the Apple photos app is not bad from the limited amount of time I’ve used it and integrates well into the phone. However as a long time Google photos user, Apples support of the app is horrible. You should be allowed in settings to switch between or prioritize/make default the photo app of your choice. Not only is Google photos hard to use on IPhone with its limited integration, I still to this day have not found an easy way to switch all my photos over from Google to Apple Photos; so even if I wanted to switch over I literally cannot find a way to get my photos over or sync them between services. I switched from Pixel to IPhone and have been loving the phone so far, but Apple’s inexplainable desire to keep everything in their “walled garden” is ruining the experience for me and people who want to/are accustomed to using a non-Apple service and how horribly they integrate into messages, apps, and the system as a whole. Please fix Apple or at least work with Google a little so we can use the services of choice on our platform of choice.