#applephotos — Public Fediverse posts

Your Apple Photos library deserves freedom. 🏠📷
Mirror Immich is an open-source bridge that continuously syncs Apple Photos → @immich — preserving albums, keywords, favorites, GPS, edits, and XMP sidecars. Reads directly from the Apple Photos SQLite DB. No export step. No lock-in.
Latest update: 200k photo library now runs in <500MB RAM thanks to batched JPA processing. 🎉

https://flowlogix.com/mirror-immich.html

#selfhosted #Immich #ApplePhotos #homelab #privacy #opensource #photography

"Close to 500 million photos stored. No VC funding. Fully #opensource" 👏👏👏
#EntePhotos #GooglePhotos #ApplePhotos #privacy #ethical
Publicación original: https://fosstodon.org/@ente/116080479818128617
From: @ente
https://fosstodon.org/@ente/116080479818128617

Big updates for @ente Photos in January 👌

#privacy #googlephotos #applephotos #entephotos #opensource
From: @[email protected]
https://fosstodon.org/@ente/116024100113693336

I’ve cut out Meta entirely since ages and avoid Google where possible, but Apple Photos is the end boss. It’s not about replacing the storage of my photos, it’s the seamless experience of organizing, non-destructive editing, and syncing that’s hard to replace.
What’s the actual alternative that doesn’t feel like a downgrade?

If you’ve found a setup that works without sacrificing the seamless experience, please let me know.
@DonDahlmann @pallenberg

#DIDit #ApplePhotos #PhotoManagement #iCloud

Hey, Mac peeps, help me help someone out! (I’m thinking of @glennf or @joekissell as likely candidates for answering this, or might know someone who can.)

Please boost!

I have an ex-editor of mine (when I wrote for Australian Macworld, great guy) who has asked me a Mac question, and while I don’t know the answer, you might! Here goes…

Hey, I have a curly Mac question that I can’t find an answer to. Hoping you can help.

I have thousands of photos in my Photos library. Way too many to keep locally, so I use iCloud. The way that’s supposed to work is that there are low-res thumbnails on the local disk and full-res originals are kept in the cloud and downloaded only when you need them.

All good.

I’m doing a project (posters for my child’s 21st) that involves uploading thousands of photos from my library to Canva. For many of them, I’m doing a bit of editing first for red-eye, etc. So I’ve downloaded hundreds (so far) of originals from iCloud.

At first this went pretty smoothly.

Now, however, my Mac is screaming that it’s running out of space, Photos is returning unknown errors and the project has ground to a halt.

My hypothesis is that even though I’ve finished the editing and uploaded to Canva — and therefore don’t need them anymore — the full-res originals are still sitting on my local drive.

Do you know how long Photos hangs on to those originals before syncing them back and leaving me with drive space? Do you know if there’s a way to make it happen sooner?

The obvious solution is to move the library to an external drive with tonnes of space. And I will do that. But it’s a band-aid.

#MacHelp #ApplePhotos #AppleiCloud #MacSupport #MacQuestion #MacQuestions

Hey, Mac peeps, help me help someone out! (I’m thinking of @glennf or @joekissell as likely candidates for answering this, or might know someone who can.)

Please boost!

I have an ex-editor of mine (when I wrote for Australian Macworld, great guy) who has asked me a Mac question, and while I don’t know the answer, you might! Here goes…

Hey, I have a curly Mac question that I can’t find an answer to. Hoping you can help.

I have thousands of photos in my Photos library. Way too many to keep locally, so I use iCloud. The way that’s supposed to work is that there are low-res thumbnails on the local disk and full-res originals are kept in the cloud and downloaded only when you need them.

All good.

I’m doing a project (posters for my child’s 21st) that involves uploading thousands of photos from my library to Canva. For many of them, I’m doing a bit of editing first for red-eye, etc. So I’ve downloaded hundreds (so far) of originals from iCloud.

At first this went pretty smoothly.

Now, however, my Mac is screaming that it’s running out of space, Photos is returning unknown errors and the project has ground to a halt.

My hypothesis is that even though I’ve finished the editing and uploaded to Canva — and therefore don’t need them anymore — the full-res originals are still sitting on my local drive.

Do you know how long Photos hangs on to those originals before syncing them back and leaving me with drive space? Do you know if there’s a way to make it happen sooner?

The obvious solution is to move the library to an external drive with tonnes of space. And I will do that. But it’s a band-aid.

#MacHelp #ApplePhotos #AppleiCloud #MacSupport #MacQuestion #MacQuestions

Hey, Mac peeps, help me help someone out! (I’m thinking of @glennf or @joekissell as likely candidates for answering this, or might know someone who can.)

Please boost!

I have an ex-editor of mine (when I wrote for Australian Macworld, great guy) who has asked me a Mac question, and while I don’t know the answer, you might! Here goes…

Hey, I have a curly Mac question that I can’t find an answer to. Hoping you can help.

I have thousands of photos in my Photos library. Way too many to keep locally, so I use iCloud. The way that’s supposed to work is that there are low-res thumbnails on the local disk and full-res originals are kept in the cloud and downloaded only when you need them.

All good.

I’m doing a project (posters for my child’s 21st) that involves uploading thousands of photos from my library to Canva. For many of them, I’m doing a bit of editing first for red-eye, etc. So I’ve downloaded hundreds (so far) of originals from iCloud.

At first this went pretty smoothly.

Now, however, my Mac is screaming that it’s running out of space, Photos is returning unknown errors and the project has ground to a halt.

My hypothesis is that even though I’ve finished the editing and uploaded to Canva — and therefore don’t need them anymore — the full-res originals are still sitting on my local drive.

Do you know how long Photos hangs on to those originals before syncing them back and leaving me with drive space? Do you know if there’s a way to make it happen sooner?

The obvious solution is to move the library to an external drive with tonnes of space. And I will do that. But it’s a band-aid.

#MacHelp #ApplePhotos #AppleiCloud #MacSupport #MacQuestion #MacQuestions

Hey, Mac peeps, help me help someone out! (I’m thinking of @glennf or @joekissell as likely candidates for answering this, or might know someone who can.)

Please boost!

I have an ex-editor of mine (when I wrote for Australian Macworld, great guy) who has asked me a Mac question, and while I don’t know the answer, you might! Here goes…

Hey, I have a curly Mac question that I can’t find an answer to. Hoping you can help.

I have thousands of photos in my Photos library. Way too many to keep locally, so I use iCloud. The way that’s supposed to work is that there are low-res thumbnails on the local disk and full-res originals are kept in the cloud and downloaded only when you need them.

All good.

I’m doing a project (posters for my child’s 21st) that involves uploading thousands of photos from my library to Canva. For many of them, I’m doing a bit of editing first for red-eye, etc. So I’ve downloaded hundreds (so far) of originals from iCloud.

At first this went pretty smoothly.

Now, however, my Mac is screaming that it’s running out of space, Photos is returning unknown errors and the project has ground to a halt.

My hypothesis is that even though I’ve finished the editing and uploaded to Canva — and therefore don’t need them anymore — the full-res originals are still sitting on my local drive.

Do you know how long Photos hangs on to those originals before syncing them back and leaving me with drive space? Do you know if there’s a way to make it happen sooner?

The obvious solution is to move the library to an external drive with tonnes of space. And I will do that. But it’s a band-aid.

#MacHelp #ApplePhotos #AppleiCloud #MacSupport #MacQuestion #MacQuestions

Hey, Mac peeps, help me help someone out! (I’m thinking of @glennf or @joekissell as likely candidates for answering this, or might know someone who can.)

Please boost!

I have an ex-editor of mine (when I wrote for Australian Macworld, great guy) who has asked me a Mac question, and while I don’t know the answer, you might! Here goes…

Hey, I have a curly Mac question that I can’t find an answer to. Hoping you can help.

I have thousands of photos in my Photos library. Way too many to keep locally, so I use iCloud. The way that’s supposed to work is that there are low-res thumbnails on the local disk and full-res originals are kept in the cloud and downloaded only when you need them.

All good.

I’m doing a project (posters for my child’s 21st) that involves uploading thousands of photos from my library to Canva. For many of them, I’m doing a bit of editing first for red-eye, etc. So I’ve downloaded hundreds (so far) of originals from iCloud.

At first this went pretty smoothly.

Now, however, my Mac is screaming that it’s running out of space, Photos is returning unknown errors and the project has ground to a halt.

My hypothesis is that even though I’ve finished the editing and uploaded to Canva — and therefore don’t need them anymore — the full-res originals are still sitting on my local drive.

Do you know how long Photos hangs on to those originals before syncing them back and leaving me with drive space? Do you know if there’s a way to make it happen sooner?

The obvious solution is to move the library to an external drive with tonnes of space. And I will do that. But it’s a band-aid.

#MacHelp #ApplePhotos #AppleiCloud #MacSupport #MacQuestion #MacQuestions

Embarrassed to say I never finished this project. I blinked and it is two years later and it's partly to blame for my lack of DSLR photography. I want a stable workflow for organizing and backing up the photos I make. The other part is I've had a focus problem on the DSLR and I'm thinking it is my eyes not the camera or lens(es) but I would have thought autofocus would fix it and I'm not sure it did. More testing is needed.

#Photography #ApplePhotos #DAM #PhotoManagement

Best Apple Photos replacement on Linux?

Must have: view photos based off geotags, view all photos chronologically (adding to the list cause somehow some of the options out there literally don’t do this), and the UI must not look like ass (looking at you DigiKam).

Nice to have: People detection, “Smart Albums” (as Apple calls them).

////

Also, any suggestions on importing photos from Photos to $newApp while preserving the photos marked as Favorites?

#ApplePhotos #linux #asahilinux #fedora

Please confirm for me that there’s no longer a way to create a smart albums in Apple Photos by each of the cameras you have on your phone. I’m trying to make one to see how many 5X shots I took on the iPhone 16 Pro, but using Lens as a filter, it doesn’t show 120mm or Telephoto as an option. I hope I’m wrong and there IS a way.

#Apple #iPhone #ApplePhotos

🚨 Breaking News: The Apple Photos app is corrupting images! 😱 Who would've guessed that trusting a trillion-dollar company with your precious memories could backfire? But don't worry, just write a blog post about it like everyone else who gave up trying to fix it. 🤦‍♂️
https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/09/17/apple-photos-app-corrupts-images/ #ApplePhotos #Corruption #TechNews #ImageBackup #BlogPost #HackerNews #ngated

Apple Photos App Corrupts Images

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/09/17/apple-photos-app-corrupts-images/

#HackerNews #ApplePhotos #Corruption #ImageIssues #TechNews #DigitalPhotography

TIL:

If you’ve associated a face with a contact in Apple Photos, the app will prominently display their face and add a visual indicator (‘gift.fill’) to their name on their birthday.

#ApplePhotos #Whimsy

The best #iPad #PhotographyWorkflow (Adobe Lightroom) https://zorz.it/DNMNn | #RomanFox #iPadPro #software #Lightroom #CaptureOne #AffinityPhoto #ApplePhotos #editing

All of this shiny liquid glass stuff is great but can I create a smart photo album/playlist/anything on iOS yet?? #ios26 #smartplaylist #smartalbum #apple #applephotos #applemusicapp

I’ve descended into madness … again. I thought I’d make a little mapping guide to help demystify the difference between Apple Photos on iPadOS vs. macOS.

Is it clear now?

#ApplePhotos

Family plan lets you share your Ente subscription with loved ones, for free. #Ente #privacy #GooglePhotos #ApplePhotos #OpenSource
From: @ente
https://fosstodon.org/@ente/114477606299673465

Apple Photos a un curseur appelé Brillance. Comment reproduire cet effet dans darktable ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQo9jCuSV3s #photography #darktable #tuto #applephotos

In Apple Photos, if I "add faces" for people whose faces are not actually visible (e.g. the back of someone’s head), will it mess up the facial recognition algorithms? Am I training the system that certain people have non-recognizable faces???
#applePhotos #mac #apple

Apple photos scrambling my photos like eggs with random names and spread across a dozen randomized folders is the dumbest shit ever in life and one of the main reasons, I don't use that shit. #Apple #ApplePhotos #PhotoAlbums #ImageLibrary

#LAGUNDU #MESE

Panorama ikusita, #macOS etik #LinuxMint era erbesteratzen ari naiz, orokorrean oso gustura, egia esateko. Arazo txikiren bat edo beste, baina konpontzen joan naiz pixkanaka.

Orain atasko potolo bat daukat, ordea. Bueno, bi, argazki bildumarekin lotuta.

1.- Ba al dago modurik Apple Photos aplikazioko datubasea (liburutegia) Linuxera erraz ekartzeko? Metadatuak eta abarrak mantenduz, noski.

(1/2)

#argazkiak #ApplePhotos #migrazioa #esportazioa

Interview: Apple’s Head of Privacy details child abuse detection and Messages safety features - Last week, Apple announced a series of new features targeted at child safety on it... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Al37_WlntQI/ #cloudapplications #operatingsystems #operatingsystem #cloudcomputing #lawenforcement #cloudservices #europeanunion #cryptography #unitedstates #applephotos #encryption #computing #appleinc #software #privacy #private #webmail #icloud #iphone #apple

Netgear debuts a new 15.6-inch Meural WiFi Photo Frame with automatic album syncing - Smart frames as a gadget category might seem like they’ve already had and passed their moment in the... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/GJFVHfA3KHY/ #wirelessnetworking #digitalphotoframe #applephotos #smartphone #hardware #software #gadgets #netgear #iphone #meural #tc

#Arqbackup just saved my …

My ~500 GB Apple Photos library on my external SSD was corrupted.. maybe because of not ejecting the drive correctly. Photos repair mechanism didn't work... still error -1.

Restoring the backup from last week in-place took < 5 minutes.

Library opens again without error, syncs with iCloud... all fine

🏷️ #ApplePhotos #ExternalSSD #Backup #Restore

My wishlist for #apple #wwdc 2025:

SYNC. WITH. ICLOUD. NOW.

I came home from a race. What did I want to do? Sit down for 5 minutes, flip through my photos, and upload them to share with my run club.

What did I do? Sat down at my insanely overpowered (for my uses) Mac Studio. "Photos synced on Friday." (It's Sunday now). I check my phone, and of course the 100+ photos from today have been uploaded since roughly the moment I walked into my garage because I have WiFi 7 APs on a 2.5gbit uplink to my 10gb switches to my 10gb symmetric fiber connection. Not a tough chore, uploading a couple hours' worth of iPhone snaps.

Back to the Mac. Twiddle with buttons, settings, force quit some things, relaunch some things. Nada. Do some Google searches, no luck. Turn iCloud Photos syncing off. Turn it back on, get prompted for my password, type password, setting stays off. Repeat 3 or 4 times until finally System Settings hangs for 60 seconds.

"Optimizing system performance". My system ain't doing shit. Stop optimizing.

"Sync now" button appears. Click it.

"You don't have enough space to store your originals". Yes I do. Or at least, I _did_. Maybe if you've decided to download an entire second copy of my photos library I won't. Who knows!

What's it doing now? God only knows. Piddling along at single digit megabits a second up and down. "syncing". No new photos have appeared in ages. I guess I'll just let it do its thing... for a few hours? Days? God only knows.

Ironically, my unplugged MacBook Air already had the photos when I opened it to write this.

#atpfm
#applephotos
#internetofshit

J'ai profité d'une voyage en Allemagne et en Autriche pour utiliser Apple Photos dans un flux de développement. Comment ca fonctionne ? https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ri42vBrR #photography #ApplePhotos #tuto

Je suis parti en Allemagne et en Autriche pour le travail. J'en ai profité pour voir comment je pouvais utiliser Apple Photos dans un flux de développement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ri42vBrRw #photography #ApplePhotos #tuto

Do you know the People & Pets section of #ApplePhotos?

Wouldn’t it be great for it to understand that a photo from a contact that was taken prior to their birthday, may not actually be them?

I have 3 (very lookalike) kids and Apple Photos consistently mismatch them on baby photos.

"Of course, this user never requested that my on-device experiences be "enriched" by phoning home to Cupertino. This choice was made by Apple, silently, without my consent.

From my own perspective, computing privacy is simple: if something happens entirely on my computer, then it's private, whereas if my computer sends data to the manufacturer of the computer, then it's not private, or at least not entirely private. Thus, the only way to guarantee computing privacy is to not send data off the device.

I don't understand most of the technical details of Apple's blog post. I have no way to personally evaluate the soundness of Apple's implementation of Enhanced Visual Search. One thing I do know, however, is that Apple computers are constantly full of privacy and security vulnerabilities, as proved by Apple's own security release notes. You don't even have to hypothesize lies, conspiracies, or malicious intentions on the part of Apple to be suspicious of their privacy claims. A software bug would be sufficient to make users vulnerable, and Apple can't guarantee that their software includes no bugs. (To the contrary, Apple's QA nowadays is atrocious.)

It ought to be up to the individual user to decide their own tolerance for the risk of privacy violations. In this specific case, I have no tolerance for risk, because I simply have no interest in the Enhanced Visual Search feature, even if it happened to work flawlessly. There's no benefit to outweigh the risk. By enabling the "feature" without asking, Apple disrespects users and their preferences. I never wanted my iPhone to phone home to Apple.

Remember this advertisement? "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone.""

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/12/3.html

#Apple #ApplePhotos #Privacy #DataProtection #Encryption #iOS #iPhone

Je regarde si Apple Photos peut développer des photos RAW ? Peut-il remplacer Lightroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeQMSGEcUOg
#photographie #photography #ApplePhotos #Tutorial

The Likely Future of Apple Photos Is What Photomator is Now https://petapixel.com/2024/11/08/the-likely-future-of-apple-photos-is-what-photomator-is-now/ #applephotos #Technology #photomator #pixelmator #Editorial #editorial #Opinion #opinion #apple

Today’s useless feature by a multi-billion corporation: Apple Photos will change (i) icon based on the approximate content of the photo.

Not sure why, the menu stays the same and just shows you meta-info on the camera (lens, focal distance, date, place etc)

Probably took a lot of effort, but thanks, Apple, I can see it’s cat by looking at the photo.

#ApplePhotos #Icon #AI

This evening I successfully imported my exported Apple Photos library into my Lightroom Classic library. There are now, apparently, a total of 174,868 items in there. The count is inflated due to Live Photos, which are each one photo and one video, but still! #Photography #ApplePhotos #iCloudPhotos #Lightroom #LightroomClassic

This evening I successfully imported my exported Apple Photos library into my Lightroom Classic library. There are now, apparently, a total of 174,868 items in there. The count is inflated due to Live Photos, which are each one photo and one video, but still! #Photography #ApplePhotos #iCloudPhotos #Lightroom #LightroomClassic

This evening I successfully imported my exported Apple Photos library into my Lightroom Classic library. There are now, apparently, a total of 174,868 items in there. The count is inflated due to Live Photos, which are each one photo and one video, but still! #Photography #ApplePhotos #iCloudPhotos #Lightroom #LightroomClassic

This evening I successfully imported my exported Apple Photos library into my Lightroom Classic library. There are now, apparently, a total of 174,868 items in there. The count is inflated due to Live Photos, which are each one photo and one video, but still! #Photography #ApplePhotos #iCloudPhotos #Lightroom #LightroomClassic

Merging Apple Photos and Lightroom Classic libraries into one is just as painstaking as you might expect. #Photography #ApplePhotos #iCloudPhotos #Lightroom #LightroomClassic

Merging Apple Photos and Lightroom Classic libraries into one is just as painstaking as you might expect. #Photography #ApplePhotos #iCloudPhotos #Lightroom #LightroomClassic

Merging Apple Photos and Lightroom Classic libraries into one is just as painstaking as you might expect. #Photography #ApplePhotos #iCloudPhotos #Lightroom #LightroomClassic

Hey, uh, anyone know of a good way to determine whether Apple Photos has downloaded all original photos from iCloud?

Currently I am using https://fsmonitor.com to watch the cloudphotod process write new originals into my photo library package.

Meanwhile, Photos itself says, “Synced with iCloud just now” — there’s no indication that originals are still being downloaded and/or moved into place.

#Apple #iCloud #iCloudPhotos #ApplePhotos

Hey, uh, anyone know of a good way to determine whether Apple Photos has downloaded all original photos from iCloud?

Currently I am using https://fsmonitor.com to watch the cloudphotod process write new originals into my photo library package.

Meanwhile, Photos itself says, “Synced with iCloud just now” — there’s no indication that originals are still being downloaded and/or moved into place.

#Apple #iCloud #iCloudPhotos #ApplePhotos

Hey, uh, anyone know of a good way to determine whether Apple Photos has downloaded all original photos from iCloud?

Currently I am using https://fsmonitor.com to watch the cloudphotod process write new originals into my photo library package.

Meanwhile, Photos itself says, “Synced with iCloud just now” — there’s no indication that originals are still being downloaded and/or moved into place.

#Apple #iCloud #iCloudPhotos #ApplePhotos

Hey, uh, anyone know of a good way to determine whether Apple Photos has downloaded all original photos from iCloud?

Currently I am using https://fsmonitor.com to watch the cloudphotod process write new originals into my photo library package.

Meanwhile, Photos itself says, “Synced with iCloud just now” — there’s no indication that originals are still being downloaded and/or moved into place.

#Apple #iCloud #iCloudPhotos #ApplePhotos

Apple photos scrambling my photos like eggs with random names and spread across a dozen randomized folders is the dumbest shit ever in life and one of the main reasons, I don't use that shit. #Apple #ApplePhotos #PhotoAlbums #ImageLibrary

Apple photos scrambling my photos like eggs with random names and spread across a dozen randomized folders is the dumbest shit ever in life and one of the main reasons, I don't use that shit. #Apple #ApplePhotos #PhotoAlbums #ImageLibrary

Apple photos scrambling my photos like eggs with random names and spread across a dozen randomized folders is the dumbest shit ever in life and one of the main reasons, I don't use that shit. #Apple #ApplePhotos #PhotoAlbums #ImageLibrary

Apple photos scrambling my photos like eggs with random names and spread across a dozen randomized folders is the dumbest shit ever in life and one of the main reasons, I don't use that shit. #Apple #ApplePhotos #PhotoAlbums #ImageLibrary

Anyone with a Shared Library and on iOS 16.5 RC having issues with the sync between the family? Appears it stopped working after updating to the RC.

#iOS165 #iOS #ApplePhotos #Apple #AppleTech #TechQuestions #MobileTech #Mobile #AllThingsTech