Tag: photos

  • How to transfer photos from iPhone to Windows 10

    Occasionally I will have need to transfer photos from Eliza’s iPhone X to my Windows 10 laptop. I’ve found the process of transferring the photos to be excruciatingly slow, unreliable, and frustrating. That is, until I figured out a better way. Most tutorials, including Microsoft’s own, will recommend you plug the phone into your computer,…

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  • Photos app updated on iCloud

    Jesse Hollington at iLounge: Apple has debuted a major update to its web-based iCloud Photos app at iCloud.com, presenting a new user interface that more closely resembles the macOS Photos app. Major is a good word to describe this update. You’ll even notice the ‘url’ for the app is now #photos2 on iCloud.com. The app…

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  • How to fix bad thumbnails in Photos on macOS Sierra

    Since updating to macOS Sierra my Photos library will show some bad thumbnails that are either completely black or have black "bars" on them. Here is just one example that I managed to screenshot (see: top left photo). If you come across this issue it is pretty easy to fix. Right-click (or, control+click, or two-finger…

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  • Save your Faces before upgrading to macOS Sierra

    I’ve been tweeting, and created a Moment, regarding the fact that Photos on macOS Sierra has gotten rid of the "Faces" feature in favor of a new "People" feature. This wipes out all of your hard work tagging people in photos. Personally this means I’ve lost hundreds of hours. But, you don’t have to. And it…

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  • What Photos for OS X and iOS will be able to automatically detect in iOS 10

    Alternate title: My hopes are low for object detection in the new Photos but I still have hope Reddit user vista980622 dig some digital sleuthing and may have come up with the list of over 4,000 objects, memories, and facial expressions that Photos for iOS and OS X will be able to mine all on its own…

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  • Hard Links and Photos for OS X

    Jason Snell, after reviewing the beta of Photos for OS X, has figured out how Apple imports photos into the new Photos for OS X without taking up any additional space: It creates hard links to the contents of your iPhoto library inside the Photos library. If you delete your iPhoto library, the files that…

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