Ondrej Holzman Apple has just released the third major update for OS X Yosemite, which brings the much-anticipated Photos app in particular. It is connected to iCloud Photo Library and comes as a replacement for iPhoto. Furthermore, in OS X 10.10.3 we find completely new emoji and a number of fixes and improvements.
The Photos application has been available for several weeks to be tested by developers and within public betas other users as well. Everything important about how the successor to iPhoto, but also Aperture will work, we learned so already at the beginning of February. But now Photos is finally coming to all OS X Yosemite users.
Anyone who owns any iOS device will feel right at home in Photos. To view photos, you can use the Moments, Collections and Years views, and there are also the Photos, Shared, Albums and Projects panels.
If you're connected to iCloud Photo Library, any new full-resolution photos and any edits to them are automatically synced across all your devices. They can be accessed not only from a Mac, iPhone or iPad, but also from the web interface.
Furthermore, Apple brings more than 10.10.3 in OS X Yosemite 300 new emoticons, improvements for Safari, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and other minor bug fixes discovered so far.
You can download the latest version of OS X Yosemite from the Mac App Store, a computer restart is required to install.
How is it with iCloud photo library with location. Do photos count towards capacity? What about the videos, do they sync too?
Photos count towards iCloud space. And yes, videos sync too. Bottom line, if you want to synchronize, then imho wants to buy at least 200 GB.
Installed. I wanted to order 200 GB of iCloud space and I can't complete the purchase :-(
Does anyone have a similar problem?
Purchased successfully.
Does it eat up that much CPU for anyone else too? Imported and eats 180% CPU :D. Thanks to Apple for another new product that I can play with before I find out what the problem is.
The photo agent is consistently over 150%…
solution? :(
Wait. He calms down.
I have the same problem, the com.apple.photo.videoconversionservice process uses the CPU for approx. 180% and the MacBook heats up like crazy and writes 90°C and more in a moment, so I have to manually raise the fan speed to max, I looked for what is causing the problem and Photos starts converting the video to .mp4 when importing the video into the library, so when then I look in the Photos Library using "Show package contents" and there is a video in the original format from the iPhone (.mov) and then also in .mp4, so the videos uselessly take up once as much memory. When I import only photos, everything is OK, so face detection uses almost nothing. I don't know why it converts when the videos are almost the same and the difference is only approx. 100MB. 150kb, iCloud synchronization is turned off and nothing else can be set there. I'm also looking here on foreign forums and nowhere is there any advice on how to turn off this great "function". I don't need to have all the videos converted to .mp4, and if I wanted to, I would only convert what I need. I'm really desperate, not only does the MacBook take longer to turn on after updating to 10.10.3, but Photos is so unusable because after importing videos I have to wait a long time for it to convert everything to .mp4 and it's almost unusable during that time , moreover, it overheats at that moment and would have shut down long ago without manual speed control.
Is there a way to prevent a certain album from being uploaded to iCloud?
Is Photos a complete replacement for iPhoto. Is it possible to delete iPhoto without any loss?
So I'm also interested in this, now I have everything in my Mac twice. So does anyone know if iPhoto can be deleted?
I have another problem, I don't understand how to delete photos taken on my phone. And keep only optimized previews there. The problem is also with the transfer to Photo. Photos still report as not imported even when I import them.
Apple TV also has an update
the whole app is terribly cumbersome. before I hit ctrl+a in some photostream, made and named a new album and hit ctrl+v. now it has to be complicated to import first into the library, then go to the last imported folder and only from there move it to the folder.
not to mention that when it starts I have to stop all other work because it eats up all the memory. and it also brutally blows up the fans and heats up the whole mac.
It's only because it checks the faces in the photos at the beginning, otherwise the app performs very well, I'd say better than iPhoto. This is my opinion after about a month of testing.
I have a question, I manage a total of 5 iPhoto libraries - each is about 200GB
All stored on an external disk - the import does not work classically, only by dragging the f finder - but the question is, can someone please advise if Photos behaves like iPhoto, at least as far as libraries are concerned - because I did not find a "switch to library" tab anywhere in Photos as in iPhoto.
I'm still bothered by the cloud sharing, but I leave it turned off - I wouldn't pay for that, since the library is for multiple iOS devices on different apple IDs. Well, I'm not happy about it...
One more question, if I stick with iPhoto I'm worried that Apple will eventually make it impossible to sync iTunes and iPhoto - do you think or does anyone have any idea if this will happen?
Thanks for any reply.
Hold Alt while launching the application and the program will prompt you to select a library…
Ah - thank you SO MUCH!
Great satisfaction. About 4000 photos and videos imported and everything works perfectly. Photos now look exactly the same on MacBook, iPad, and iPhone, and any change on one is immediately reflected on the other devices. Good work.
what about the library from Aperture, can it be opened in photos, or should I look for another program? thanks
Well, according to me, it didn't work. I expected more editing options, you can't sort photos by name in albums, about half of the photo names as they were in iPhoto disappeared
10.10 is the first system from Apple that I have no desire for. And photos? I don't want you at all. When I watch not only here, but also on a lot of other discussions and outside, what major and minor problems he constantly has, I really don't care about them. I share photos and videos with friends and family on unlimited data Photostream, I don't really need the full size of photos to share, I'm not going to print billboards. And I don't have to pay Apple for the space that, for example, Flickr gives 1 TB for free. Despite the fact that Photostream on iCloud goes beyond the space of prepaid storage and is data-limited. Which of course Apple is silent on…. No thank you. I don't have a single rational reason to switch from Mavericks and complicate my life unnecessarily. And if Apple ever forces me to do so in some way, for example by canceling Photostream, then fortunately X others can be saved for sharing.
Well, you see. Yosemite runs better than Mavericks for me. It actually runs better for me than anything they released after 10.6.
I'm in exactly the same situation, the betas ran great, yes, I had to google something, but I don't have any more problems...
I'm joining too. Yosemite runs like clockwork for me, which certainly could not always be said about the versions from Lion to Mavericks. In addition, Apple was very successful with the iOS 8.3 update. Both iPad and iPhone are faster compared to 8.2, overall I feel very good about it. Finally, it's the good old Apple again :D
Photostream is not limited by data, you're right, BUT it is limited to the last 1000 photos... Which, in my opinion, is worse than limited data. I will pay for data, but not for the number of photos... In general, the "older" service is better for people who have a few dozen photos in their iPhone... Besides, these two services work in parallel, I don't know if this is a bug or a real function...
mainly to help me with the WIFI dropping out!!!!!
try to select a fixed channel in your router's settings, I had it set to automatic (so that the router interferes with others as little as possible) and I lost the signal both on the macbook and on the iphone. Androids and PCs had no problems with it...
Is it possible to just plug in the iPhone and import the photos into "photos" I just can't do it... technically it is no longer possible to sync and upload to "photos" via cable?
It works as before in iPhoto. Only now it will not automatically show the import, but a new import folder will appear at the top and you can copy the photos through it.
It's fine for me. Browsing speed has increased, everything is much smoother from my end. Really nice work with Photos from my side. Everything else works. I don't see a problem anywhere.
Don't look at the teeth of a gift horse. In my opinion, Photos is worse than iPhoto. It can't do events, sort by date, and the GUI is so primitive. The guys at Apple are obviously going the iOS-style way of simplifying apps. On the other hand, MS does not even provide any photo management application with its OS.
if it were possible, I would cancel Photos and leave iPhoto, but it is no longer in the app store, maybe if it was possible to roll back OSX to 10.10.2
iPhoto stayed in your apps, just disappeared from the dock, that scared me too
Great, thanks :-)
So I was left in iPhoto applications. But maybe it can still be downloaded.
that's why I'm staying with Aperture :-)
Has anyone figured out how to name photos in individual albums? In both iPhoto and Aperture I always had an Event such as "Christmas" and in the Event the photos were Christmas 001, Christmas 002, etc. After importing the library into Photos, all the names disappeared. Thanks for advice :)
Try to put View, Metadata, Names at the top of the bar. I don't know if that's what you were looking for, but it should probably be the same.
Photos satisfaction for me. Mainly a huge space saver - I set the optimized size of the library, i.e. originals on the cloud, only previews on the computer. I pay for 200GB iCloud for a few bucks. I used to put a lot of albums - due to lack of disk space - on Flickr, but never again! It is simply not possible to download an entire album of photos from Flickr at once, or you need an external application and it is to scratch your left ear with your right hand. Flickr no more! And about Photos: The only thing that bothers me is the inability to manually edit the geotag on photos and a few other things. My Mac also vents a lot, but then I forgive him because he keeps uploading more and more photos to iCloud.
I was already getting depressed. I've already spent thousands on a pro program. I was worried I'd lost iPhoto in the update, but thank god it stayed, it just disappeared from the dock. I write ufff and I mean ÚFFFFFF! Compared to iPhoto, the editing tools in Photos are really only basic, practically unusable. UFF
I am also satisfied, finally I can give advice in all the photos across all the devices. I don't mind the limited editing, I have other tools for that. supr.
For me it disappeared after 10 minutes of using Photos Fotostream. Do you have it there?
I have exactly the same problem... the photos show up in all photos, but the photostream album just disappeared.. does anyone know? Thanks
Hi, I want to ask if anyone is experiencing slower startup after this update. It seems to me that it is much slower. Before that, I entered the password within about 5 seconds, and now the password entry starts only after 10+ seconds. I have Air 13, 4GB Ram.
I am observing the same problem… When I think of the lightning start with the Mountain lion… The start has now slowed down quite a bit. I also have an Aira, 13 inches 4GB ram, mid 2012
Vlastys - yes, this is exactly what I felt after this update, it's now terribly slow to turn on the macbook :(
I'm the same way….
How is it with the synchronization of edits please? When I take a photo on my iPhone, it syncs with my Macbook normally. But if I then edit the photo on the Macbook, the editing will no longer appear on the iPhone. Can it be set somehow or not?
iCloud library must be turned on in the settings on both devices. How your photos will be uploaded to Apple's servers will also show the changes.
it's great that the app crashes sometimes and I can't even restart it... otherwise it's ok
regardless of the fact that the update significantly affected the start...or slowed it down!
SJ is turning in his grave! What the hell is this? iPhoto library won't load.. so what is this app for? I'm not even talking about the slow start... Apple has long followed the motto: "We'll make it so much better for you that you'll be blown away!!!"
On the old Retina, after this update, my Macbook doesn't turn on within 5 seconds like before, but it takes 20 seconds to enter the password. It takes another 5 seconds to load. So I don't understand what's up with the stupidity that it's slowed down like this by up to 20 seconds.
That's quite an update. And I could also discuss iOS 8.3. Slow touch issue.
HUMUS! ! !
Unfortunately, I'm starting to doubt Apple products. Reliability, stability, quality are lost. SAD.
Somehow the edited photos on my iPhone don't show up when I import them (I use the Snapseed app for editing). Please advise how to do this..??