Quickly Catalog Books or Other Named Items on Shelves

You can take advantage of Apple’s Live Text feature in Photos to catalog books, boxes, or any other items with text names. Think of it as a lazy person’s ad hoc database.

Display an Album of Photos on Your iPhone or iPad Lock Screen

If you like how the Lock Screen’s Photo Shuffle wallpaper rotates through photos but would prefer that it worked from an album you specified, you’re in luck! That’s now possible in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17.

Apple Is Shutting Down My Photo Stream — Switch to iCloud Photos

Apple is shutting down the My Photo Stream service, the company’s first iCloud-based effort at helping users sync photos between devices.

Apple’s Greatest Hits

A bunch of handy Apple Support articles

Need to Merge Photos Libraries? Here Are Your Options

Photos makes it easy to create and switch between libraries. That’s good when photos need to be kept completely separate. For instance, an interior designer might want to keep personal photos separate from photos taken for work. But too much separation is annoying — you have to keep switching between libraries, and it’s easy to […]