On This Day Rewind

Live Photos play when you open them, the background takes on the colors of your photos, and you can finally tell the app which albums to leave alone -- all wrapped in a new look. ## Highlights - Live Photos play in fullscreen, with zoom while they play - Backgrounds pick up the colors of the photos on screen - Add photos to albums, or (Pro) skip albums you'd rather not see - A fresh look: tap a photo and it zooms open ## Live Photos - Live Photos play in the fullscreen viewer. - Pinch or double-tap to zoom while one is playing. - Audio follows your device's silent switch. - New "Live Photos" section in Settings to control playback. ## Ambient backgrounds - In the grid, the background follows the colors of the year you're viewing and updates as you scroll. - In fullscreen, it follows the photo you're looking at and shifts as you swipe. - Both can be turned off in Settings under Ambient Backgrounds. They hold still if you use Reduce Motion. ## Albums - Add a photo to an album from the fullscreen menu, or select several in the grid and add them together. - New (Pro): exclude albums in Photo Selection settings. Those photos are skipped in the grid and in your widgets. ## A new look - Tapping a tile zooms it open into fullscreen, and it shrinks back to the photo you swiped to. - The date navigator is now one glass capsule that morphs into the date picker, instead of three separate buttons. - The date, streak, and photo counters roll when they change. - Small touches: the favorite heart bounces, the streak bolt reacts when your streak grows. ## Grid and fullscreen - RAW and JPEG versions of the same shot share one tile instead of showing up twice. - Tap a video in fullscreen to show or hide the map and toolbar, the way photos already worked. - The "See more" button is easier to spot. - The grid loads faster and no longer double-loads on a cold start. ## Widgets - New option to open the app itself instead of the tapped photo. - Widgets skip any albums you've excluded. ## Fixes & polish - Videos deeper in the grid no longer get stuck on a loading placeholder -- this covers the cases that survived the 1.3 fix. - Clearer VoiceOver labels on the day switcher, photo tiles, and toolbars, and better behavior at large text sizes. - The loyalty unlock is now described correctly: 10 months of subscription unlocks Pro for good. - Deleting a batch of selected photos asks once instead of twice.