Photos (Apple)
Photos is a photo management and editing application developed by Apple. It was released as a bundled app in iOS 8 on September 17, 2014—replacing the Camera Roll—and released as a bundled app to OS X Yosemite users in the 10.10.3 update on April 8, 2015. It was released for tvOS 10 on September 13, 2016.
Developer(s)
- iOS 8 onward
- iPadOS (all versions)
- OS X Yosemite onward
- watchOS (all versions)
- tvOS 10 onward
Photo gallery and editing software
History[edit]
In June 2014, Apple announced its plan to discontinue the applications iPhoto and Aperture, to be replaced by a new application, Photos, at some point in 2015.[1][2] Photos was included with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, released as a free update to users on April 8, 2015.[3][4][5]
On September 13, 2016, the app was later included in tvOS 10.[6]
Criticism[edit]
Critics noted the loss of functionality in Photos as compared to its predecessors. For example, images could no longer be ordered as Events but were either automatically ordered chronologically into Moments or had to be put into albums. The latter did not allow for automatic sorting[12] and it was necessary to configure Smart albums with customized user-defined rules to do so.[13] Customers who had been using the Aperture application, abandoned by Apple on the release of Photos, were particularly angry about loss of professional-standard functionality. Apple customers who upgraded to OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which was launched in 2015, found that if they had not first obtained the most recent version of iPhoto before upgrading, they were locked out of the application without warning. Since iPhoto had been removed from the Mac App Store, they had no alternative but to use Photos.[14]