Photos

Browse, edit, and share your picture-perfect moments. Photos is the home for all of your amazing photos and videos, and it’s smart and personal, with intelligent features that help you find, enjoy, and share your best shots.

Browse and organize your library
• In the Library tab, the All Photos view displays your photos and videos in an interactive zoomable grid, and Days, Months and Years views curate your best moments, removing clutter and bringing your library to life with animated video playback
• The Albums tab lets you organize your photos just how you want
• People and Places albums let you browse your photos by who’s in them and where they were taken
• Media Types automatically organize your photos into helpful albums like Videos, Portrait mode, Screenshots, and more

Relive your memories and more in For You
• The For You tab contains Memories, Shared Album activity, Sharing Suggestions, and the best moments from your library in Featured Photos
• Memories uses on-device intelligence to find trips, holidays, people, pets, and more in your collection, and presents them as movies paced to music, including intelligent song suggestions from Apple Music for Apple Music subscribers

Find just what you’re looking for with powerful Search
• On-device machine learning analyzes your photos so you can search for people, places, dates, events, and even objects and scenes like basketball, birthday cake, or beach
• Intelligent search suggestions surface important events, people, places, and dates even before you type in the search bar

Perfect your photos using sophisticated yet easy-to-use tools in Edit
• Fine‑tune your photos and videos with powerful tools like auto enhance, highlights, shadows, vibrance, and definition
• Nearly every tool and effect available for photos can also be used on videos, including rotate, crop, and auto enhance
• Adjust keyframes in Live Photos and add fun effects

Share with friends and family
• Share to Messages, Mail, and third party apps right from Photos
• Use Shared Albums to share photos and videos with just the people you choose
• iCloud Links let you send a set of photos and videos with a link that can be viewed on any platform, in any browser

Keep your library safe and up to date with iCloud Photos
• Store your photos and videos safely in iCloud and access them from any device, any time, including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac, on iCloud.com, or even on a PC
• Your library stays up to date across all your devices

Keep your photos private
• Photos protects your privacy by using on-device intelligence to analyze your photos and videos
• Face recognition, scene detection, object detection and more are all done completely on your device


Use the Photos app on Apple Watch to access your favorite photos right on your wrist
• View and manage your Memories, Featured Photos, or an album you’ve synced to your Apple Watch
• Relive your favorite moments with highlights from Memories
• Watch your Live Photo come to life right from your wrist
• Create a Photos or Portraits watch face
• Share a photo from your library with someone from your contacts